by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math
We're allowed to criticize press coverage of Republicans too, right?
Hopefully Chris Suellentrop won't use this as an excuse to stop reading my woefully underupdated personal blog, but the New York Times decides that it would rather spend front-page column inches wielding lashon ha-ra rather than actually reporting any news. The headline "Mormon Candidate Braces for Religion as Issue", summarizes a 1500-word article that deals solely with Mitt Romney's (R-MA) Mormonism and its impact on his electability. Quotes come from Romney himself, as well as conservative activists of various stripes, all dealing predominantely with the question of whether or not Romney can win primaries, and how he might go about doing so. The front-page photo caption of the candidate reads "Mitt Romney gave the first major policy speech of his presidential campaign Wednesday at the Detroit Economic Club".
In a better world, the amount of ink spent on a candidate's first major policy speech and the amount of ink spent on his [or her!] electability in this article would be reversed.
