Yahoo goes out of its way to kiss Bush's ass

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The following two articles were on the same page.

AP Poll: Bush, Kerry in Dead Heat

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041021/ap_on_el_pr/president_ap_poll&cid=694&ncid=2043

Reuters Poll: Bush Grabs One-Point Lead on Kerry

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=2&u=/nm/20041021/pl_nm/campaign_poll_thursday_dc

If one reads the first story one finds that Kerry has a three point lead among likely voters. Is Yahoo a bunch of media whores or what?

[trotsky]

1. Love the Reuters Poll headline.

Bush "grabs" a one-point lead.

If Kerry had a one-point lead, it would be reported as "statistically insignificant".

Liberal media my ass. :eyes:

[southernlad]

2. I noticed

on my SBC Yahoo homepage all weekend the headline was, BUSH PULLS AHEAD OF KERRY. Of course, by Sunday some polls were showing otherwise. However, they didn't change the headline until Tuesday.

[sandersadu]

3. Terrible

What makes this so bad is that these headlines were written on the same frickin' day. You'd think they'd at least wait a few days to whore openly.

Also notice the strong action words w/ Bush = he "grabs" 1-pt "lead."

disgusting.

[Carolinian]

4. Be sure you rate these Yahoo articles, gang!

[lancdem]

5. The irony is

Kerry's 3-point lead is bigger than Bush's 1-point lead, but the headlines totally misrepresent that. Of course, this happens all the time.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. It's the sports writer/announcer hype method

Everything is written like it's the bottom of the 9th and a tie game.
Long ago some wise DUers reasoned that this will be a landslide, but it has paid to advertise it like a horse-race, to keep people tuned in for the commercials.

[vpigrad]

7. keep people tuned in for the commercials?

I thought it was to discourage the smart from voting. After all, if your vote isn't going to make a difference, it doesn't make sense to vote so more of us will get discouraged than those mindless fundies.

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Perhaps if they showed a 10 point lead by chimp

people would be discouraged, however the horse race thing is basically the same hype that is applied to a badly mismatched Super-bowl in order to boost viewership and to sell ads.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

8. "Grabs One-Point Lead"?

That's funny.