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Seattle P-I Greets Visitors with Criticism of Tea Parties

By Ken Shepherd | April 16, 2009 | 15:40

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which since mid-March has been published solely online, greeted visitors to its Web page today with links to opinion pieces or cartoons critical of the April 15 Tea Parties (see screencap at right).

In the upper right-hand corner, under a picture of Seattleites at a tea party protest, were links to 

  • a liberal opinion piece by P-I cartoonist David Horsey
  • a photo slideshow from Seattle's Tea Party
  • an editorial cartoon by Horsey, reflecting similar sentiments to those penned in his opinion piece

No ostensibly objective news stories by P-I staffers covering the protests were teased.

Ironically, yesterday afternoon P-I "Big Blog" editor Monica Guzman gave her readers a look at how a new study shows "Political news browsing is getting more partisan.":

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