I am so disappointed once again with The Tribune's front page headline article choice in the wake of Barack Obama's historic win in South Carolina. Your editorial choices consistently support the status quo of idea of divisive pessimism ... We deserve better. While that article raises some valid points it is a second page story with Obama's trouncing 55 to 27 was the front page story!
_ Mary Cowitz
Ms. Cowitz: First, thanks for taking the time to write and share your opinion. Let me explain why we chose the story we did for Sunday's front page. In today's 24-hour news cycle, the first news -- i.e. who won the primary -- gets widely reported online and on cable news channels and becomes well known long before our paper arrives at your home. So our challenge is to find an analysis of those results. In that way, we give you something fresh as a reader. In this case, we ran the analysis done by Steven Thomma, a reporter widely regarded for his astute coverage of presidential campaigns. He works for our parent company's bureau in Washington, D.C. I am sorry you felt the story promoted a value of divisive pessimism. Our intention was nothing more than to find a fresh take on the results from South Carolina.
_ Tad Weber
Monday, January 28, 2008
Reader says we slighted Obama's win in SC
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Ms. Cowitz might consider herself fortunate, she happens to support the candidate that gets the majority of positive press, across the board. It's been shown in independent studies that Obama get the lion's share of positive press, and little negative. Not there there isn't negative things to report, the media just picks their faves (like GWB last time).
I'm not sure looking for every possible slight is in her best interest. Her candidate gets plenty of fawning press without her help.
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