{"id":2141,"date":"2004-07-14T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/knight-ridder-gets-it-wrong\/"},"modified":"2004-07-14T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2004-07-14T22:24:31","slug":"knight-ridder-gets-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/14\/knight-ridder-gets-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideologues Get It Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tApparently we all agree that the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain has a political bias; liberal ex-blogger John Kowalski accused them of <a href=\"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/07\/far-and-balanced-knight-ridder\/\">pro-Bush bias<\/a> and Stephen Hayes accuses them of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/Content\/Public\/Articles\/000\/000\/004\/321rnmhb.asp\">anti-Bush bias.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knight Ridder itself cops to the Hayes charge, which no doubt confirms the Kowalski theory:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Wednesday, Knight Ridder had posted a correction. &#8220;President Bush&#8217;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&#8217;t explicitly make that connection.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It strikes me that it&#8217;s difficult to tar all the writers for all the Knight-Ridder papers with the same brush, so I won&#8217;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.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;President Bush&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/14\/knight-ridder-gets-it-wrong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ideologues Get It Wrong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-yx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}