October 9, 200817 yr I made no comment on the articles of the paper, only the opinions. If I am giving more interpretation to the reader with this, or others like "in terms of fariness" from the OH voting thread please let me know.I never said that you did comment on articles and I am sorry if I implied that you did. I am just pointing out that a newspaper's editorial page should be independent from its articles and I do not think the LH keeps them separated.
October 9, 200817 yr The LHL does this as well. There may actually be more columns from described conservatives than described liberals. I've read both extensively over the years, and I'm going to have to disagree. Heck, the CJ ran Thomas Sowell on back-to-back days this week. On a regular Mon-Sat cycle, the HL may run 3-4 conservative columns, whereas the CJ usually gets at least one a day, if not more. Too much Merlene Davis, I suppose. She doesn't run on the op-ed page, however. Unless something has changed recently that I'm not aware of.
October 9, 200817 yr I don't care if a newspaper wants to give Bill Ayers a forum on its editorial page. The reason that I quit paying for the LH years ago was the bias in article selection and placement. Bad news for the Dukakis campaign seemed to get buried if it was printed at all. Any negative allegations involving George H. W. Bush landed on the front page. Around the same time, I happened to be at work early one Saturday morning when the AP's correspondent for most of eastern Kentucky called my boss for a comment on a story that he was writing for publication in the Lexington Herald. I listened as our engineering director explained the facts of the case from the company's perspective, including efforts to settle a case involving an attempted adverse possession case by adjoining property owner. The resulting story contained two or three sentences from the reporter's discussion with my boss. I understood then, that the reporter did not expect to reach anybody in the office early on a Saturday morning - or he expected to reach a staffer who would be unable to comment on the case. Anytime that I read an article now containing words like "attempts to reach...were unsuccessful," I immediately suspect that a call was made after normal business hours. Way to use one instance to paint a broader picture.
October 9, 200817 yr I never said that you did comment on articles and I am sorry if I implied that you did. I am just pointing out that a newspaper's editorial page should be independent from its articles and I do not think the LH keeps them separated. Agreed. I just want to make sure that I completley clarify some of the comments I make. :thumb:
October 10, 200817 yr I rarely pay attention to this stuff, but I can't help but feel like the Herald Leader is 99% for Obama and 1% for McCain. Has anyone noticed this or has it just seemed that way in the few papers I've read lately? In the papers I read, I felt like every story supported Obama and went completely against McCain. Even in the opinion section - out of 20 letters - 15 of them were for Obama and/or against McCain and the other 5 were related to other topics. Is it just me or has anyone else noticed this? I think the UK student newspaper (the Kentucky Kernel) is even worse if you can believe it. That campus is so liberal.
October 10, 200817 yr Is that any surprise in an environment (college campuses) where radicals are praised as heroes and great thinkers?
October 10, 200817 yr Is that any surprise in an environment (college campuses) where radicals are praised as heroes and great thinkers? No it is not really a surprise. It's just sad.
October 10, 200817 yr I think the UK student newspaper (the Kentucky Kernel) is even worse if you can believe it. That campus is so liberal. Is that any surprise in an environment (college campuses) where radicals are praised as heroes and great thinkers? Those crazy college kids...This generation just doesn't get it.
October 11, 200817 yr Too much Merlene Davis, I suppose. How does this woman have a job...she should team up with Jesse Jackson.
October 11, 200817 yr Way to use one instance to paint a broader picture.Thank you. I am sure that this is a common practice among a liberal media with an agenda. BTW, I am not saying that the one incident that I related applies in all cases. What I am saying is that I am skeptical anytime that I read "attempts to contact _______ were unsuccessful," "___________ did not respond to our request for a response." etc., whereas I previously did not give the matter much thought. Edited October 11, 200817 yr by Hoot Gibson
October 13, 200817 yr The Lexington Herald is nothing but a Democratic mouthpiece. I first realized that fact during the 1988 campaign. I have no problem with a newspaper favoring a candidate on its editorial page but article selection and placement that clearly favors one candidate over another really ticks me off and that is what the Lexington Herald does on a routine basis. The Courier Journal is just the same!
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