I open my newspaper this morning, and there's an article by Scott Shepard of Cox News telling me all about the YearlyKos convention I'm missing.
So tell me, you who are there, is it a good and faithful report?
But I'm even more curious about who writes the headlines. On the Statesman website, the headlines read: Liberal bloggers convene to flex their political muscle A new political movement is taking root this week at the first-ever YearlyKos convention.
The print version says: Bloggers unite to influence liberal politics YearlyKos meeting is out to pick up where U.S. media leave off
That raised my hackles: So YearlyKos is out to pick up where the media leaves off influencing liberal politics? Did I read that right? Yes, I am paranoid, but they are out to get us.
And the article actually says
The YearlyKos conventioneers also are united in their outrage over the mainstream news media...So, yeah, the subheadline does reflect the article, if you don't take it as being related to main headline, which you have to read the whole article to see.Progressive blogger Jane Hamsher kicked off the discussion panel with criticism of mainstream news organizations. She said they had failed in their job to reveal the truth about the leak of Plame's identity.
Her mention of Washington Post editor and reporter Bob Woodward and former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who received some of the leaked information, drew hisses from the audience.
Hamsher said that if the mainstream media had done their job, "we wouldn't be here." And for that, she added, "I want to thank them from the bottom of my heart."
It reminds me of the summer of 04, when this same paper ran 3 weeks of long Sunday articles (with photos) on the front page of this same World & Nation section, all about the swift lying accusations of Kerry. If you read each entire article, you'd get to the conclusion at the end that these were not especially truthful accusations. You wouldn't receive the same impression from just the headlines.
So who writes the headlines? I seem to remember some random flotsam from the past telling me "editors." Which begs the question, "which editors?"
If you feel the need to ask questions or make comments, you can write to Scott at sshepardSHIFT-2coxnews.com Scott, the print editor, and/or the online editor at kkingstonSHIFT-2statesman.com.