In-the-tank-for-McCain PD blasts week old poll on Sunday front page
Today is September 21. The poll on the cover of today’s PD went into the field 9 days ago, Sept. 12, and finished Sept. 16, last Tuesday. All before any of last week’s extraordinary events sank into the electorate.
The problem? (as if that isn’t one already) The PD doesn’t tell its readers the dates of this poll until page A12. That’s probably because Terrance C.Z. Egger, the PD publisher, has a record of misleading his readers on his front page in favor of John McCain.
Egger puts bogus claims of voter fraud on front page, quoting GOP.
There is really one job for the publisher of a newspaper, and that’s to create the front page. It’s the one any publisher cares about. It’s the job they dream of having control over their entire careers.
Plain Dealer publisher Terrence C. Z. Egger is using this job to promote a right wing agenda. The proof is on his own front page. And it looks like the guy is just warming up.
Egger quotes wingnut Buckeye Institute above the fold on front page.
Above the fold, on today’s front page of the Plain Dealer, which features a Hillary tribute to Stephanie Tubbs Jones which appears designed to use Stephanie’s death to sew the “disunity” message on the eve of the Democratic Convention, the PD quotes the wingnut front group, Buckeye Institute to argue that it costs too much to hold an election to replace Stephanie.
And today, Egger blasts across his Sunday front page a week-old poll that shows his guy in the lead.
More evidence that the PD is in the tank for John McCain.
I can’t wait for the breathless endorsement.
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September 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
Dispatch tucked same poll below front page fold bottom left. At least they acknowledged how old it was.
September 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Beacon had the poll just above the fold on 1A.
So apparently the goal is to have a fresh, proprietary poll the Ohio rags can claim as their own, bestowed to all of Ohio’s Sunday paper readers.
Problem is, as you said Tim, the poll left the field just as Lehman, AIG, and the whole crew was going belly up.
Poor journalism. Want to have a meaningful poll for the Sunday rags? Close it on Friday, do analysis on Saturday, and have something (ahem) fresh and proprietary for Sunday.