Mike,
With regard to the special prosecutor, I just plain don't like anything about the process. It is fraught with all kinds of pitfalls. The time to ferret out all this stuff--whatever it is or isn't--is before someone is elected. The kind of nonsense going on at present with our sitting President is what makes the
US of A the laughing stock of the entire world.
I posted before on this thread that prior to Clinton's nomination and subsequent election, all we ever really heard about him from the media was that he'd probably had an affair with Gennifer Flowers, he smoked pot but didn't inhale, and he had maneuvered his way out of the draft. These criminal allegations are now coming to light, courtesy of this same media.
I think of a newspaper as being liberal or conservative, depending upon it's editorial content and how it slants its news which can often make it difficult to distinguish between reporting and editorializing. It is telling to see what a paper or other news medium chooses to report or chooses to not report or--worse--underreport or overreport. This dubious distinction can be generously applied to liberal and conservative papers.
I give the SF Chronicle high marks for offering a balanced editorial page and in clearly distinguishing between news and editorials. I like its overall balance in content. I read the SF Examiner only on Sundays when it combines with the SF Chronicle and would definitely call the SF Examiner a conservative paper. Read it for a week or so, and I think you'll agree. <vvbg>
Although I haven't read the LA times regularly for several years, I always thought of it as a liberal-leaning paper. I have heard it stated that the Washingting Post is liberal, although I've never read it with any regularity. I have a friend with a Ph.D. in Journalism whose first newspaper job was with the Washington Post. He tells me that even with his Ph.D., the Post wouldn't have looked twice at him had he not done his dissertation on propaganda. Before you ask, he is no longer with the Post.
On my profile page here at SI, you can find a link to the Contra Costa Times, another paper I think to be ultra-conservative. In recent years, the CC Times was purchased by Knight-Ridder and may have changed its content accordingly. However, we think of Contra Costa County as Orange County North, so I kinda doubt their content and style have changed that dramatically. It is a little different reading that paper online as opposed to the print edition. BTW, I think the graphics at Hot CoCo are outtasight fantastic.
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