The fact they put this on the front page instead of the opinion section gave the Kossacks an axe to grind. Poor judgement on the paper’s part.
My hometown paper, the St Petersburg Times, often publishes slanted liberal, opinion type pieces on the front page and even in the headlines. It makes me berserk.
We can have major news and you’ll see one of these garbage articles in the headlines. Especially poll stuff.
I don’t think anything but news belongs on the front page. But I don’t think the MSM understands what news is any more.
Just once I’d like to read a news piece where the FACTS are the important thing.
I also hate it when newspeople analyze a speech or such, but never tell you what the person really said. Most of the time they don’t capture what the speech is about at all, they just criticize the person (if he is a republican) or laud him if he is a democrat.
I remember once Bush gave this major war address. I went to CNN to see what they would show. I think they showed him saying half a sentence on a side, unrelated topic, and spent 5 minutes dissecting that piece of sentence. They never got to what he actually said at all.