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My call was in reference to AP writer Ron Fournier's "Analysis" of GWB's convention acceptance speech. This "analysis" was prominently positioned on the front page of yesterday's Breeze. Granted it was labeled "Analysis", but it was the one and only "analysis" anywhere to be seen.

Whenever you're talking to a newspaper editor, you should always make the point that a "news analysis" on the front page, or any other news page, is an editorial disguised as news, and the objective thing to do would be to label it "Editorial."

31 posted on 09/04/2004 2:10:07 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (we use the ¡°ml maximize¡± command in Stata to obtain estimates of each aj , bj, and cm.)

"Whenever you're talking to a newspaper editor, you should always make the point that a "news analysis" on the front page, or any other news page, is an editorial disguised as news..."
Indeed - and often having "high-level (and anonymous) observers" as the source(s). The situation today is that this degenerate "news" (oxymoron) policy has become prevalent - the media no longer even noting it as being "analysis."
And it is all glaringly apparent to ordinary people - who are not going to pay 50 cents or a dollar daily for opinionated rot put forth for ulterior motives (except in NY and L.A. and some other places inhabited by superior beings). Blessed is FR.