Comments on: MSM Highlight GOP ‘Defections’, Ignore Dems Voting Against Their Own http://www.bloggernews.net/18790 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:30:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: folkbum http://www.bloggernews.net/18790#comment-63807 folkbum Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:43:10 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18790#comment-63807 I'm not a usual reader, but I was pointed here from a blog I do frequent. I have a concern that you're misrepresenting the articles you cite. You wonder why these articles don't highlight the Dem defectors in that House vote. Well, the Reuters piece dismissed the vote as "largely symbolic," but did indeed include a subhead about Republicans breaking ranks--Senate Republicans, though, not House. The NYT and Chronicle pieces you linked were datelined BEFORE the vote even took place. I'm not sure how you expect them to cover Democratic (note spelling) defectors when the vote hasn't even happened! This may be why the AP story is the "only more in depth story I could find that gives the actual vote totals," since two of your other three were written before the vote! I’m not a usual reader, but I was pointed here from a blog I do frequent.

I have a concern that you’re misrepresenting the articles you cite. You wonder why these articles don’t highlight the Dem defectors in that House vote. Well, the Reuters piece dismissed the vote as “largely symbolic,” but did indeed include a subhead about Republicans breaking ranks–Senate Republicans, though, not House.

The NYT and Chronicle pieces you linked were datelined BEFORE the vote even took place. I’m not sure how you expect them to cover Democratic (note spelling) defectors when the vote hasn’t even happened!

This may be why the AP story is the “only more in depth story I could find that gives the actual vote totals,” since two of your other three were written before the vote!

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