Reply #17: Absolutely [View All]

[fofer]

Stories like this one are especially dangerous, in my opinion, b/c they're almost editorials but are masquerading as news. There may even be some writers who don't even realize what they're doing, either---just trying to make the story more "interesting" and injecting a nice helping of bias while they're at it. You'd think the NYT editors could nip this stuff in the bud, being that they're in charge of the paper of record and all. But flash is trumping substance everywhere in media these days, or almost everywhere anyway. Sigh.

But I agree with you about the polls and the electorate. I'm so happy people don't seem to be swallowing all this idiocy whole. Gives me hope. I don't want to get overly optimistic because I'm superstitious, but I think Kerry may do even better than the polls predict. Not much thanks to the mainstream press, of course. :-)