Posted on 10/03/2004 9:22:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
WE RECEIVED THE following letter from a woman in Yonkers, N.Y.: "Dear editor: This debate made it clear: John Kerry is a leader we can trust to tell us the truth when it comes to our nation's security. George Bush has had his chance; I'm ready for a new direction."
Cogent, succinct, personal -- everything we look for in a letter. So why are we writing about it here, instead of publishing it in the columns to the right? Unfortunately, the letter, perfect in every other way, arrived in our electronic in-box Thursday afternoon, four hours and 14 minutes before debate moderator Jim Lehrer posed his first question.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
good for them!
Amazing the Wash Post is admitting, and writing about,this.
I guess they know it would get out without them.
The question is, how many other papers printed the same variation? I'm sure more than just the ComPost received these seminar letters.
Score one for the Washington Post.
BREAKING: WASHINTON POSTS MOCKS DU.
This is the real story about all those polls taken immediately after the debate. The DNC cooked the polls, as usual. Maybe I missed it, but I saw and heard very little coverage on it. It helps to negate all those "Kerry won the debate polls".
Sweet.
The punchline: "[O]ur goal is to present a sampling of genuine reader opinion, not to become one more battlefield in the spin wars raging all around. And we especially like to hear from readers who can think and write for themselves."
Good on 'em! I imagine many in the media are now afraid of being the next Dan Rather.
A similar story in the Chicago Tribune by Michael Tackett:
Democrats don't fool anyone in post-debate e-mail punditry
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0410030319oct03,1,1685545.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Oddly enought BugMeNot only works for me with the comPost. It even remembers me every time. BugMeNot hasn't worked for me on any other newspaper website.
thanks for the login link.
It seems to me the Washpost is being honest.
They didn't have to mention any of the tactics being used by the dnc. Maybe they're not as partisan as the nyt or the lat.
No.
More aware of the danger of being shown to be pulling transparent scams a la Rather and CBS.
They don't call it the comPost for nothing.
PW: fedup
You took the words right out of my mouth!
When I worked for a local newspaper in New Jersey, we got letters with the SAME PHRASES IN CAPITAL LETTERS always making exactly the same points. Never got one from a Republican. We never printed them.
Not an indictment of the Washington Post, just a curious question as to why they waited for days to announce the DNC's email when FReepers knew of it BEFORE the debate?
LOL. You have to be a real DUmmy to send an email to the editor critiquing a debate before the debate even begins.
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