[uncitizen]

If the story was different it would be written differently, brilliant.

No, if the media were different, this story would've been written differently. Get it now???

[SF Republican]

If the media were different? The media run the gambit from NYTimes to Fox News, how do you expect them to be more different than that?
No I don't get it.

[Mr. Lucky]

For both your logic and the correct use of the pluperfect past verb, you should be declared the winner of this thread.

[voltaires_zit]

> No, if the media were different, this story would've been
> written differently. Get it now???

Setting aside, for the moment, the fact that we'll never be able to test this because (as someone else pointed out) the John Birch Society will be led by a card carrying socialist a long time before San Francisco gets a Republican mayor, how do you think this "would've been written differently"?