Well, now it's official: The new owners of PPH are discarding their predecessor's stealth conservative approach on the paper's editorial page.
Today's chatty lead editorial--cursory and disjointed in way that reminds me of, say, a Richard Connor column--basically tells Sen. Snowe and Sen. Collins to block President Obama on health care.
The piece is fact-free, devoid of substance and it indulges in empty sloganeering. So the new PPH editorial page should fit right in with the rest of the right-wing noise machine.
Still, this is a positive change. Better to have PPH honest about where it's coming from than disingenuous--as it was in the past--about its editorial views.
Of course, how this plays with left-of-center readers in Portland and elsewhere is another story.
1 comment:
It's good you due observations of Maine media. They're the ones who keep elected reps honest. They should always be contrary to the powers that be, no? If they aren't, then we should be contrary to them. Good post!
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