NY Times Bias: Defending Bush, Attacking Kerry

[Democat]

The folks who hounded New York Times' Howard Dean campaign reporter Jodi Wilgoren during the primary season via a watchdog blog might want to resuscitate their efforts to keep tabs on her coverage of John Kerry.

Wilgoren is trying too -- trying way too hard to "get" Kerry with nit-picky little jabs that avoid the substance of the many issues she should be covering.

One cannot accuse the Times' Elisabeth Bumiller of anything similar in the latest edition of her White House Letter, or, rather, White House Love Letter. Contrast Wilgoren's snarky treatment of Kerry with Bumiller's apology for the agonizing primetime performance handed in by President Bush last week. Presidential press conferences are just so hard.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/archive.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2004/04/19/wilgoren/index.html

The right wing bias in the U.S. media is going to be Kerry's biggest problem this year.