Ideologues Get It Wrong

Apparently we all agree that the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain has a political bias; liberal ex-blogger John Kowalski accused them of pro-Bush bias and Stephen Hayes accuses them of anti-Bush bias. Knight Ridder itself cops to the Hayes charge, which no doubt confirms the Kowalski theory: By Wednesday, Knight Ridder had posted a correction. “President Bush’s … Continue reading “Ideologues Get It Wrong”

Apparently we all agree that the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain has a political bias; liberal ex-blogger John Kowalski accused them of pro-Bush bias and Stephen Hayes accuses them of anti-Bush bias.

Knight Ridder itself cops to the Hayes charge, which no doubt confirms the Kowalski theory:

By Wednesday, Knight Ridder had posted a correction. “President Bush’s comments about terrorism were incorrectly reported in that saying the president insisted there was an operational link between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. The president suggested that such a link existed, but didn’t explicitly make that connection.”

It strikes me that it’s difficult to tar all the writers for all the Knight-Ridder papers with the same brush, so I won’t play. In the last election, their San Jose paper endorsed Gore, and their paper in the next country endorsed Bush, so do the math.