Disgraced Pol John Edwards, Man Without a (Democratic) Party in the New York Times
The New York Times's Kim Severson is reporting from Greensboro, N.C. on the campaign finance trial of former Democratic senator, presidential candidate, and vice presidential running mate John Edwards. But in keeping with Times practice when it comes to Edwards and other Democrats in legal trouble, Edwards's party affiliation was nowhere to be found in her Tuesday report, "Testimony by Ex-Aide Opens Edwards's Corruption Trial."
The dreaded D-word (for Democrat) was also absent from a Tuesday morning online update from Severson on that morning's testimony from former campaign staffer Andrew Young. A TimesCast clip from Severson also lacked the word "Democrat."
Severson managed to mention Edwards's Democratic party membership in her two previous articles that preceded the start of the trial. And the Times has little trouble remembering the Republican label when the shoe is on the other foot.
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This is so common, to not say
Submitted by tcm14 on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 6:19pm.
This is so common, to not say when it is a Democrat but note when it is a Republican.
I was reading on the comedy site Cracked.com, the article was "6 Evil Politicians" or somesuch, and the article would name a politician in a header followed by a few paragraphs of text about the scandal. One of the entries was Eliot Spitzer, and it did not mention at all that he was a Democrat. A little further down was an entry for a Repub congressman (can't remember his name) who got caught up with Abramhoff, and in the few short paragraphs that followed it said the word "Republican" 4 TIMES.
No Democrat on trial?
Submitted by Ben Blankenship on Wed, 04/25/2012 - 10:56am.
Neither did NBC News last night, with Brian Williams, allow that damning word: Democrat, cross the narrative about the trial of former DEMOCRAT candidate Edwards. Par for the course in major media nowadays.