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05.27.2009 11:11 am

Tucker Carlson is launching news site to keep watch on Obama

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson

Citing “very large gaps in news coverage of the Obama administration,” political commentator Tucker Carlson says he’ll launch a right-leaning web site — the dailycaller.com — within weeks.

Michael O’Brien of the Hill’s Blog Briefing Room quotes Carlson:

“We are a general-interest newspaper-format style…

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10.31.2008 12:06 pm

Report on Obama-Palin effigies is called biased

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Friday morning’s Post-Dispatch carried three disturbing paragraphs about brutalized effigies of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin — and two readers told me they detected political bias in the editing of those 61 words.

The Post-Dispatch item on the effigies appeared as…

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10.13.2008 3:13 pm

More complaints of political bias

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A few readers complained about our display of a couple presidential politics stories this past weekend.

On Saturday, we ran a 6-inch story “Alaska investigator finds Palin abused her power” on Page A20. A reader who said he favors Obama thought…

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09.18.2008 3:59 pm

Who’s telling the truth in politics?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Very Short List has an interesting piece today on the great divide between the way liberals and conservatives think. It asserts that truth follows party lines because people are wired that way.

Here’s a link to the short VSL article. This is the first…

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09.02.2008 10:02 am

“New sidekick” headline angers readers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The lead headline in Monday’s paper infuriated a number of readers.

“McCain, new sidekick a hit at O’Fallon rally.”

“Totally disrespectful” one reader told me.  She said “sidekick” is a word that should be reserved for comedy acts.

Another offered that maybe we…

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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 didn’t…

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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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