Name That Party: Toledo Blade's Provance Highlights 'Republican Scanda

Tom Blumer
May 8th, 2010 12:16 AM
Columbus Bureau Chief Jim Provance at the Toledo Blade is a one-man "Name That Party" creativity machine: In March of last year (covered at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), in a story about late financial reports from Ohio's state government, Provance identified State Auditor Mary Taylor, who criticized Governor Ted Strickland's administration for being so tardy with the numbers that they could not…
 

Name That Party: AP Follows Predictable Script in Revealing Former Ohi

Tom Blumer
May 7th, 2010 12:47 AM
Consistency, thy name is AP. The Associated Press's story roll-out on former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann's anticipated guilty pleas to ethics violations followed the usual script: The initial report, carried here at Cleveland.com, failed to mention Dann's Democratic Party affiliation. A later extended report breaks down and reveals Dann's party membership in its ninth of eleven paragraphs…
 

Toledo Blade's Slow-Learning Reporter IDs Prosecutor as GOP, Doesn't N

Tom Blumer
May 15th, 2009 12:12 AM
(UPDATE: See circulation chart below.)In early March (covered at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), Toledo Blade Columbus Bureau reporter Jim Provance named the party of Ohio's Republican State Auditor Mary Taylor, who sharply criticized Democratic Governor Ted Strickland's serious lateness with the state's financial statements -- so late that they couldn't possibly be audited until after the Ohio…
 

AP's 'Novel' Name That Party Wrinkle: Purging Dem Party IDs from Origi

Tom Blumer
December 22nd, 2008 5:47 PM
Two situations over the weekend illustrate that the Associated Press's habitual failure to identify the political party of Democrats in trouble is more than likely a conscious decision. This is despite the AP Stylebook's guidance (as of 2000, the latest free edition I can find; a PDF is here) that a reporter should "include party affiliation if readers need it for understanding or are likely to…
 

AP Finally Mentions Kwame Kilpatrick's Democratic Affiliation

Ken Shepherd
May 6th, 2008 1:22 PM
As readers of NewsBusters are no doubt aware, we've tracked how the media have regularly refused to acknowledge the political party affiliation of indicted Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick (D).Well, today, Associated Press reporter Julie Carr Smyth did acknowledge Kilpatrick is a Democrat, albeit in a roundabout sort of way in an article about Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann being the latest in a…
 

Ohio Media Suffers Collective Amnesia on AG Marc Dann's Party

Tom Blumer
April 19th, 2008 6:54 PM
Ohio's Old Media needs a collective medical intervention to battle Chronic Reporting Amnesia (CRA). Ohio's Democratic Attorney General, who has been no stranger to controversy since his election in November 2006, is in major hot water over the conduct of two employees on his staff: An attorney representing two women whose sexual harassment allegations have triggered a widening scandal at…