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dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye) writes:
 
>Liberal press?  Where is it?  I always read the political endorsements,
>and the press always or nearly always endorse right-wing reactionaries.
 
Are you reading the Orange County Register?
 
>Look at how many papers endoresed George Bush and Ronald Reagan before
>him.  Look how many endorsed Pete Wilson.
 
I'll look.  Nope, haven't seen many.  The San Jose Mercury News endorses
Democrats about 80-90% of the time.  When they *don't* endorse a Democrat,
or a tax increase, it's headline news.  I'm serious.  Have you seen that
newspaper?  It has a strong leaning to the left.
 
>When a paper endorses a Democrat it's BIG NEWS, to wit: In the last
>election the Oregonian in Portland endorsed Clinton.  This made national
>headlines (even in their own paper) because it was the first time the
>Oregonian had EVER not endorsed a Republican.  Note the SF Chronicle, long
>noted as a "working man's paper", but instead always endorsing
>Republicans.  Hell, the newspaper publishers in California usually sit on
>the central committees of the local Republican party groups.
 
The Chronicle?  They endorse more Republicans than Prav^H^H^Hthe Mercury
News, but that isn't saying a helluva lot.
 
>The exception I make to this is the McClatchy papers (the Bees), which
>have always been liberal.  I can't even THINK of any other liberal press
>in California, let alone the nation, unless you wish to include the small
>circulation weekly papers.
 
The Merc is a Knight-Ridder paper, and just about as liberal in the editorial
page as they come.
 
 
Tim Irvin, Programmer/Analyst/Grad Student/Infielder/Gen-X'er
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Inc., Sunnyvale, California
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