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08.26.2008 3:44 pm

Too little Teddy Kennedy?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Did the Post-Dispatch do Teddy Kennedy justice in this morning’s paper?

The news crew at C-Span last night was aglow over the tribute as it aired live. Their enthusiasm captured the magic of the moment — or perhaps gave it…

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08.25.2008 12:32 pm

Black politics: poor choice of words?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Black politics: Where to now?” read the top headline on today’s front page of the Post-Dispatch.

A couple readers wondered, rather strongly, where that headline was headed.

We received this email from a reader:

Subject: Black Politics Where to Now?…

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07.15.2008 4:14 pm

What’s missing from Obama picture?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Photo by AFP of the New Yorker sold at a newsstand.A reader — also a frequent participant in STLtoday online conversations — wondered why we used the photo we used in this morning’s Post-Dispatch with the political brief about the controversy over the satirical New Yorker cover.

The photo we used…

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06.10.2008 10:52 am

Fawning over Obama

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Washington Bureau Chief Bill Lambrecht shares this sampling of pro-Obama comments in the national press — pulled from the bottom section of Hotline’s assembled Obama coverage from last weekend.

Lambrecht observed: “Looking around, it seems like a lot of Obama…

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06.10.2008 10:18 am

Biased Obama coverage, II

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A follow-up thought — from one of our political writers — to yesterday’s posting on Sunday’s huge Obama coverage:

Just for the record — and I’ve mentioned this to Parker already — our local coverage on the presidential candidates, when…

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06.09.2008 1:26 pm

Bias for Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editors and staffers here are aware of the desire and need to maintain objectivity in our coverage of the presidential campaign. That can be done by matching every word written or photo used on a daily basis — not the easiest or…

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06.05.2008 3:59 pm

Did we overplay Rezko to hurt Obama?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A caller today said we erred in putting the Rezko guilty verdict (”Rezko guilty verdict resonates”) at the top of today’s Post-Dispatch front page. That headline stretched across five columns.

She said the story about Obama’s historic candidacy (“Obama’s triumph lifts…

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05.28.2008 10:46 am

Obama’s uncle gaffe

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A reader complained this morning that we “fixed” Barack Obama’s “uncle” error in the short item we ran today on Page A3. Obama said “uncle” in his speech. Our item said “great-uncle,” she said.

Obama got camp wrong, but liberation was…

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