AP Avoids Tagging Schneiderman As a Democrat; LA Times Kept Story Out of Tuesday's Print EditionBy Tom BlumerNews Busters May. 10, 2018 |
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Some in the establishment press appear determined to downplay the visibility of the bombshell news of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's resignation, and to avoid referring to him as a Democrat. The Associated Press avoided tagging him as a Dem in one story, and saved the tag for a very late paragraph in another. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times found a unique solution to the problem in its Tuesday print edition: Despite being on the West Coast, it didn't cover the Schneiderman story at all. Tuesday evening at NewsBusters, Nicholas Fondacaro noted how ABC's World News Tonight failed to identify Schneiderman's party, while CNN reassured viewers that his anti-Trump, anti-GOP lawsuits will still be vigorously pursued. An eight-paragraph Monday evening AP report found at WBAL-TV in Baltimore did not identify Schneiderman or Empire State Governor Andrew Cuomo as Democrats when it mattered most, i.e., minutes after the AG's Monday evening resignation. Read More |