Leafing through the first section of Sunday's print edition of the Post, nearly every headline seemed designed to scare the bejesus out of readers already nervously confined to their homes because of the coronavirus crisis.
The Page One banner headline, splashed across the full six-column width in bold type, read: "Death toll surges past 2,000 in the U.S." To dramatically illustrate that point, the paper carried a photo of face-masked military police carrying a coffin.
The Post's editorial page staff figured their readers could use a pick-me-up after wading through all that woe, so they furnished an oasis - at least for readers who are partisan Democrats - in the form of three full pages of opinion extolling the leadership skills of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Post's lead editorial bears the headline "We need wartime leaders." The editors don't mean an elected chief executive.
What should we make of all this negativity on the part of The Washington Post and other national news organizations? As a newspaper reporter on the local, state and national levels for nearly 40 years, and as a journalism and political science professor for 15 years, I find it highly disturbing.
Of course, there is no law against the Post or other news organizations framing its coronavirus coverage with a highly negative and anti-Trump slant.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/30/an_epidemic_of_media_partisanship_142804.html
The Page One banner headline, splashed across the full six-column width in bold type, read: "Death toll surges past 2,000 in the U.S." To dramatically illustrate that point, the paper carried a photo of face-masked military police carrying a coffin.
The Post's editorial page staff figured their readers could use a pick-me-up after wading through all that woe, so they furnished an oasis - at least for readers who are partisan Democrats - in the form of three full pages of opinion extolling the leadership skills of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The Post's lead editorial bears the headline "We need wartime leaders." The editors don't mean an elected chief executive.
What should we make of all this negativity on the part of The Washington Post and other national news organizations? As a newspaper reporter on the local, state and national levels for nearly 40 years, and as a journalism and political science professor for 15 years, I find it highly disturbing.
Of course, there is no law against the Post or other news organizations framing its coronavirus coverage with a highly negative and anti-Trump slant.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/30/an_epidemic_of_media_partisanship_142804.html
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