Posted on 10/28/2009 5:12:07 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Okay boys and girls. A bluebook exam question for you. What is the big excitement all about in the New York 23rd CD race that has captured the attention of the political world for the past week? I'll give you a really strong hint in the form of this observation from yesterday's Washington Post: "It is now a two-person race between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens with Scozzafava fading badly."
Hmm. So you would think that any recent news story about that race would have to at least include a mention of the Conservative challenger Doug Hoffman who has surged to the lead in a couple of recent polls as the Republican, Dede Scozzafava, plunged to last place. Well, in the world of the New York Daily News, Doug Hoffman doesn't even exist. At least not in this story yesterday by Elizabeth Benjamin. She writes The Daily Politics but her article appears to be The Daily Politics of an alternate universe in which the contest in the 23rd CD is strictly between Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens. Here is her story about New York governor David Paterson endorsing Owens and how this affects the campaigns of both the Democrat and Republican candidates but not a certain person whose candidacy dare not speak its name...at least not by Benjamin in this article:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
daily news = nyt lite
The Daily News and New York Times are, admittedly, both organs of the Democratic Party. The difference is in the class they are meant to appeal to. The New York Times appeals to the elites, the Upper West Side, wealthy suburbanites and the professoriate. The Daily News appeals to straphangers, union members and civil servants.
The Post, otoh, appeals to people who aren’t insiders, businessmen, people working in white collar jobs outside the government or academia.
BTTT
Daily News = “Tabloid Times”
The few people in NY23 who read the Daily News start at the back (sports pages) and end in the middle (comics).
Sad part is...there are a number of RINOs in the GOP who were glad the NY Ditzy Shrews did not mention Hoffman.
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