As we know, if these were predominantly Republicans, the news of —and moreover the political affiliation of — all those arrested public office-holders would be all over the news. The Associated Press story, in its widely circulated piece on it (carried by both the CBC and CTV) reported it correctly, if sheepishly, quietly mentioning only in paragraph five, that “All but one of the officeholders are Democrats.” (And yes, I checked to make sure CBC and CTV didn’t erase that line from the AP story. I fully expected that they would have. Maybe they, too, didn’t notice the line, as was clearly the intent.)
But over at the distant second-place to Fox News Channel, CNN, that means it’s a mixed bag.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, in his “Situation Room”, announced: “Dozens of public figures, including mayors, are caught in a stunning corruption sweep. They belong to both major parties.”
Yeah that kind of journalistic crap is a “situation”, alright. (And then he probably said, “You’re in the Situation Room”.)
Reporting from Newark, New Jersey, CNN reporter Deborah Feyerick then reported “nearly 30 politicians and public officials, Democrats and Republicans, were rounded up in what prosecutors called the largest sweep of its kind.”
Newsbusters has the whole grab bag of facts with regard to how this has been initially reported.
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