The dictatorship of diplomas, the system which demands a formal qualification for any job, which ignores raw talent, however extraordinary it might be, has produced a terrible paradox, empowering mediocrity and irresponsibility, a whole mentality overshadowing the schools, judiciary, media and, ultimately, our national life.That's one article Jim Romensko won't be linking to.
Amsterdam, a thriving port of 750,000 people, has always had a cultural and racial mix, but never at today's ratio: Almost half its residents are of non-Western descent, a majority of them Muslims.Much of that is the emigration of a white middle class. Some 32% in one poll wanted to leave. It get's worse:
According to NIDI, more than 112,000 people left the Netherlands last year, compared with 90,000 who entered the country, prompting the research bureau to start studying emigration in January.It's worrisome even to other countries.
Opinion polls show that advocates and opponents of the constitution are neatly split along socioeconomic lines, with those in less well-off circumstances planning to vote against it.Typical of the Left. The low-incomers are useful as long as they don't think too much on their own. Parapharasing Chirac: "You missed your chance to shut up."
The crucial mistake of the elites who devised European construction and integration was to largely isolate the political process from European citizens. This has led to a widespread popular perception that all that is left is the social Darwinism of the free market. The split between the ruling class and the masses couldn't be deeper. When Chirac said that by voting "non" France would be the "black sheep" of Europe, the masses enthusiastically agreed.Of course, those pesky masses are ill-informed. The EU is the embodiment of the French ideal.
France gave the world the first - and most radical - democratic revolution in Europe; the Paris Commune; a compelling denunciation of anti-semitism (the Dreyfus case); the mother of all strikes (May 1968); and the foremost blueprint for enlightened secularism. Now it may be giving a democratic lesson on how to achieve the true European dream.As the Paris Commune was a prelude, if not an example for, communism, you would think that anyone in this day and age would hardly invoke the image to bolster an argument for a democratic lesson. The masses, apparently, are useful only when they are manipulated.
The school's principal immediately reprimanded the teacher for showing the material - not for its explicit content, but because it could be considered a breach of copy rights. The teacher was subsequently removed from sexual education.Parents feel the teacher should be fired, but that's probably taking morality too far. Doncha think?
Certainly, the ordinary citizens of Europe should be given more say in the way they are governed. They can be forgiven for viewing the constitution, and treaties like it, as something cooked up between the bureaucrats in Brussels and European political leaders, who seem to consider the actual voters an annoying appendage that should be content with approving their work after it's done but not consulted in the actual decision-making.In other words, the voter is pretty much an annoying appendage but they ought to vote for it anyway because, well, the New York Times likes it.
But this is the constitution that is on the table, and as the time to vote approaches, we urge the French and the Dutch to take a moment to strip away all the local issues with which the EU constitution has been festooned, and to ponder whether a better EU is in their interest or not. We think it clearly is.
At least three riding associations in Nova Scotia, four in British Columbia, and one in suburban Toronto have nominated candidates with ties to groups like Focus on the Family, a Christian organization that opposes same-sex marriage.As some 50% of polled Canadians are also against same-sex marriage, I guess the point is that they should not act on their beliefs and enter the political fray. Only diehard socialists like the Globe and Mail would disenfranchise so many voters, following, of course, the European Union contempt for voters.
The researchers said there was no reason for long pointed knives to be publicly available at all.I guess the story missed the annual April 1st edition. It's never too late for a good April Fool's joke. Oh, wait, the BBC, is an April Fool's joke.
They consulted 10 top chefs from around the UK, and found such knives have little practical value in the kitchen.
None of the chefs felt such knives were essential, since the point of a short blade was just as useful when a sharp end was needed.
The High Hand
Glenn Reynolds notes that the New York Times coverage of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan may not really be about prisoner abuse or even Afghanistan, but about maintaining the prestige of Newsweek. He calls it 'circling the wagons', the idea being to teach press critics an object lesson in how expensive it is to humiliate the mass media by catching them at sloppy reporting by flooding the zone with stories similar to the one which was discredited . That may or may not be the case, but it is nearly undeniable that the effect of the media's coverage of American misdeeds has been to make the slightest infraction against enemy combatants ruinously expensive."
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes living in isolation from the rest of the world and prone to fanatical irrational indestructible beliefs -- not least the notion that you can flush a 950-page book down one of Al Gore's eco-crazed federally mandated low-flush toilets, a claim no editorial bigfoot thought to test for himself in Newsweek's executive washroom."Self-workshing vanity media" is a great description of the media that flaunts awards they give themselves as if they were deserved. They talk about Pulitzer prize winning as if that, and and a $5 bill could get you frappachino at Starbucks. It's long past the time that such awards meant anything to anyone except the self-obsessed media, probably because such "honors" as the Peabody award given this month to Dan Rather after he was forced to resign because of his perfidity and 60 Minutes Wednesday was cancelled because of lousy ratings. A honor for a loser. But, then a lot of these media self-awards have come down to that. Pep talks for the troops.
Watching the media circling the wagons around the beleaguered Isikoff this week, Martin Peretz of the New Republic described them as ''a profession that is complacent, self-righteous, and hopelessly in love with itself.'' The media are the message: But, hey, enough about the war, let's talk about me...
This disaster took a combination of factors. We can't do much about Muslim fanatics; we probably can't do much about our self-worshipping vanity media whose reflexive counter-tribalism has robbed it of all sense of perspective or proportion.
The time has come to cool the fury in Parliament, to ease the pressure on Martin to resort to seedy vote buying, and to let him deliver on his many promises, including ethical promises. Martin has vowed, for example, to bring in tough, transparent rules for advertising contracts. While important steps have been taken, Gomery suggested this week more must be done. Martin should follow up.They, of course, suggest that Harper accept a truce. In other words, quit already before you actually wake up Canadians not only to the corruption of the ruling Liberal party but the vacuousness of the Canadian media.
And despite having the backing of all the major political parties there is a growing danger that the constitution will be rejected when people let their voices be heard in the first-ever national referendum here on 1 June.[bolding mine] Those damn people are so unreliable.
Fears are being raised that people will use the opportunity of the referendum to register their unease on unrelated issues such as the introduction of the euro - widely seen as having led to higher prices - the accession of Turkey to the EU and disquiet with the current government.You dare to criticize us, you peasants!!! Or as one "No" voter explained, "The feeling of the people is that we want to say no to what exists to prove that we exist."
When Islamic fundamentalists launch attacks against tourists in Cairo, as happened twice yesterday, April 30, they are terrorists, not 'militants' as the Los Angeles Times called them this morning.Yes, but if they actually called terrorists what they were, they couldn't empathize with enemies of the U.S. And their sympathies are clearly with the terrorists. (virtually the whole month articles.)
It is the editor of the Times, John Carroll, who is responsible for continuing this loathsome policy of refusing to name these enemies of the civilized world for what they are.
Four years ago this week, President Bush nominated Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the federal bench. Four years later, she and six other appeals court nominees remain unconfirmed and unvoted upon because of Democratic filibusters.Why?
This technique is defended by Democrats as traditional and rooted in history. What a fraud.
There has certainly never been a successful filibuster in the case of a judicial nominee who clearly had the approval of a majority of the Senate. And there has surely never been a campaign like the one undertaken by the Democrats since 2001 to systematically deny judicial appointment by means of the filibuster.And,
Two hundred years of tradition has been radically and unilaterally changed by the minority. Why? The reason is obvious. Democrats have not had a very good run recently in the popularly elected branches. Since choosing the wrong side of the culture wars of the 1960s, they have won only three of the past 10 presidential elections. A decade ago they lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years, and now have lost all the elected branches. They are in a panic that they will lose their one remaining ability to legislate -- through the courts.
Democrats are calling Frist's maneuver an assault on the very essence of the Senate, a body distinguished by its insistence on tradition, custom and unwritten rules.Yes.
This claim is a comical inversion of the facts. One of the great traditions, customs and unwritten rules of the Senate is that you do not filibuster judicial nominees. You certainly do not filibuster judicial nominees who would otherwise win an up-or-down vote. And you surely do not filibuster judicial nominees in a systematic campaign to deny a president and a majority of the Senate their choice of judges. That is historically unprecedented.
The Democrats have unilaterally shattered one of the longest-running traditions in parliamentary history worldwide. They are not to be rewarded with a deal. They must either stop or be stopped by a simple change of Senate procedure that would do nothing more than take a 200-year-old unwritten rule and make it written.
What the Democrats have done is radical. What Frist is proposing is a restoration.
Those of us who don't espouse the mainstream media conventional wisdom have a responsibility to set a better standard. Let them sink into their echo chamber, and write for the audience that prefers to believe the disproven lie to the uncomfortable truth. This would be the same readership that audaciously calls itself the -- reality-based communit -- and dismisses those who disagree as the easily-fooled rubes of -- Jesusland -- , then applauds the line, - only a Sith deals in absolutes.and,
We're writing for the audience that actually wants to know what's going on, that doesn't always assume that Pentagon officials are lying, that has a healthy skepticism of the word of a captured al-Qaeda terrorist, and that gives our guys in uniform the benefit of the doubt. (They've earned it.) When some of our guys foul up big-time, like Abu Ghraib, we want to know. But we don't want the gruesome abuse photos hyped into endlessly displayed news porn. We know it;s a horrible sight, but it's not quite as horrible as what we saw on an autumn Tuesday morning a few years ago.
The Isikoff story – and the inevitable coming deluge of in-depth investigative journalism of additional tales of abuse from those utterly trustworthy al-Qaeda prisoners – are a return to the “good old days” of last spring. When Teddy Kennedy could compare the U.S. military’s handling of prisoners to Saddam’s torture chambers with a gleeful, hearty grin. When our guys on the front lines could be portrayed as sadistic, black-hearted villains. When the face of our guys wasn’t the stoic loyalty of a Pat Tillman, the pride and dedication of a Jeffrey Adams, or any other one of our heroes but the nauseating sneer of Lynndie England.Exactly.
Boy, did those days feel good to the media.
Call that whatever you like. But don’t call it journalism.
District Attorney Ronnie Earle, who denies partisan motives for his investigation of a political group founded by Republican leader Tom DeLay, was the featured speaker last week at a Democratic fund-raiser where he spoke directly about the congressman.Ronnie Earlie is an elected Democrat, but his judgement is really questionable. He helped generate $102,000 for a new PAC dedicated to taking control of the Texas state Legislature. Earle was a co-founder of the PAC along with Dallas lawyer Ed Ishmael, "a leader in the Howard Dean presidential campaign." Earle's remarks were equally inappropriate. "Earle likened DeLay to a bully and spoke about political corruption and the investigation involving DeLay, the House majority leader from Sugar Land, according to a transcript supplied by Earle."
In several Third World countries, efforts to democratize have been impeded by the easy corruption with which an unscrupulous party may buy off unscrupulous individuals across the chamber. This renders elections meaningless.Indeed. The name Jim Jeffords comes to mind in American politics.
There can be no doubt about it now. If the Liberals win Thursday's confidence vote by virtue of Stronach's presence on the government benches, we will continue to have a government openly acknowledged to be illegal by most if not all of the major constitutional authorities in the country.There is something familiar about the political chicanery of the Martin government and the Democrats fighting to deny votes on president Bush's judicial nominees. Listening to Chuck Schumer refer to the "Founding Fathers" and blatantly distorting the unheard-of filibuster in the confirmation process as a constitutional balance and check reminds you of how goonish the Left can be when they are challenged. In an editorial on April 11th, Paul Kujawsky a member of the California Democratic Party executive board, expressed the wish that the filibuster be eliminated.
By requiring a supermajority of 60 senators to cut off debate, the filibuster is anti-majoritarian and thus, by definition, undemocratic. The U.S. Constitution requires supermajorities in certain circumstances - for example, it takes a two-thirds Senate vote to ratify a treaty. But constitutionally, supermajorities have nothing to do with debating judicial nominations.He advocates change in the Senate rules. "So kill it now. Full debate is essential. Unlimited debate is impractical. Endless debate wielded as a weapon is unjustifiable."
Beckel -- who could not be reached for comment today -- is a former TMS columnist. He was also deputy assistant secretary of state in the Carter administration, and he helped manage Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign.All of which is important only if you remember that Bob Beckel guest hosted Larry King's show for years and that CNN did not tell viewers that he was he was a Democrat operative who came from a family of Democrat activists.
After a political baptism as a college student in Robert Kennedy’s 1968 campaign, a tour of duty in the Peace Corps and a successful stint heading up his own consulting firm, Bob joined the government in 1977. As the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, he steered the controversial Panama Canal Treaties through Congress. He moved to the White House to head the Administration’s effort to press Congress into passing the Mid East and SALT II Treaties.Deploring "character assassination" in an interview with Buzzflash, Beckel applauds Buzzflash. "I see places like yours that are willing to take these a**holes on and write stories and do editorials about them that none of the mainstream press will do." He deplores character assassination but "I’ve got a guy working right now, a retired lawyer, who is going to track down where George Bush was during those months he said he was with the Air Force Reserves. This is all being done by contributions, and a chunk of that out of my own pocket." And then there is Tom DeLay. "We’re going after DeLay. We have people looking into his various money organizations. DeLay is about as forgiving as a cornered rattlesnake, and this boy needs to be cut down to size."
Our recollection was that Beckel was exposed in the liberal media for hiring a prostitute and then getting blackmailed to keep it quiet. The journal Campaigns & Elections described the incident this way: "Bob Beckel, manager of Walter Mondale's…1984 landslide presidential campaign loss, resigned from his consulting job…in the wake of a scandal involving a prostitute who allegedly tried to extort $50,000 from him. Beckel told Maryland's Montgomery County Police Department he had paid the Fairfax County, Virginia, woman $1,900 for sexual liaisons at his Maryland home in late June, and that days later he found a note on his car and a message on his answering machine demanding money and threatening to release evidence of the woman's visits to his family and the media…Three people from Alexandria, Fairfax County, and Washington, D.C. were arrested and charged with extortion and conspiracy to commit extortion."The Smoking Gun has photographs and the salacious details. None of which is mentioned by USA Today or Editor & Publisher.
Rather received extended applause after telling the crowd, 'Never give up, never back up, never give in while pursuing the dream of integrity filled journalism that matters.' "Having Dan Rather talk about integrity is like asking Bill Clinton discuss fidelity in marriage. But the real laugh is that the "prestigious honor" - the Peabody- was also given to Jon Stewart of Comedy Central.
Journalists thrive on conflict. The old journalism maxim that "man bites dog'' is a better story than "dog bites man'' overlooks an even more fundamental tenet of the craft: "Man pets dog'' is not a story at all.Quoting Tom Rosentiel:
"What is lost here are the nuances,'' said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a nonpartisan group that studies media practices.
"There is genuine conflict here,'' Rosenstiel said. At the same time, "it's not unusual to see absurd overreaching -- in a desperate, craven attempt to keep the audience watching. Words like 'startling' and 'bone tingling,' or 'knock your socks off' have the effect of making TV news kind of numbing. It's the medium that's always crying wolf.''
Prudential also found the circulation figures for copies that aren't paid for by readers, such as newspapers distributed to hotel guests, jumped 34% for the audit period through Sept. 30, compared with the same period in 2003.And this:
Longer term, Prudential expects a bigger shift by publishers away from circulation as a significant revenue stream. For the nine publishing companies that break out circulation revenue, circulation accounts for less than 19% of total revenue.Think about that for a moment. It explains a lot about newspaper indifference to their declining readership as they pursue their political agenda. The model that most closely resembles the newspaper industry is the television industry where lack of viewers doesn't bother them in the least. Their revenue stream is advertising. Why advertisers continue to pay exhorbitant rates for fewer and fewer viewers or readers isn't hard to understand. There is no where else for them to go.
In the below-average category, the L.A. Times experienced an overall circulation decline of 5.6%. Full-paid home delivery was down 10.8%, much worse than the 2.4% national average, the report said. Home-delivered copies through third party sales decreased "significantly," said the report.For those of us who know the Los Angeles Times, none of this is a surprise.
The report noted a curious trend at the Times regarding other-paid circulation, calling the fluctuations and changes "peculiar." As one category drops another gains, with the rough total remaining constant. "A 158% increase in discounted copies also signals to us more trouble with circulation and selling at the cover price," the report said.
Torstar Corporation, publisher of The Toronto Star, reported Wednesday an 8% decrease in profit during the first quarter, principally because of weakness in retail advertising and a decline in sales of its line of Harlequin romance novels.Reality is stranger than fiction.
Q: What do you think are the most important skills to have to be a good reporter?You would think truthfulnes would be in there somewhere. Maybe that's why USA Today liked him. It couldn't be because he was such a favorite of reporters and a frequent NBC, CNBC, and CNN guest and was a rabidly anti-Bush, anti-military, anti-war, anti-Pentagon punk.
A: Patience, empathy, intelligence, cheerfulness, modesty, street smarts, determination, courage and endurance, to name a few.
According to the professors, journalists are significantly more ethical than the average adult and eclipsed only by seminarians, doctors, and medical students.The ethical questions in the study? Renita Coleman in an interview on NPR explains.
There's six ethical situations that people are asked to solve, everything from should a man steal a drug for his wife, who will die without it, and the pharmacist, coldhearted as he is, won't give it to him, to you've been living next door to a model citizen for ten years, and then you find out that he's an escaped prisoner - should you turn him in? There's six of those. They're true dilemmas in the sense that there's no one right answer.It's called situational ethics, lady, but, it has it's purpose that rapidly becomes clear.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: You didn't break this down according to religion?I'll bet. Two former reporters validating their former professions interviewed by committed Leftists at NPR.
RENITA COLEMAN: Religion correlates with high ethical reasoning, up to a point, and then, as people begin to be more religious, their ethical reasoning gets lower, so it's a curvilinear relationship. So, one of the findings is that relying too much on religious doctrine and rules can actually inhibit good quality ethical reasoning sometimes.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: That's fascinating.
RENITA COLEMAN: Yeah. And we're not the only ones who found that. There's been many studies that have been done that have come to the same conclusion.
"Merrill Lynch has compiled a chart breaking out the 50%-or-greater circulation numbers for the latest Fas-Fax period, ending March 30, listing how much those numbers have grown or slipped in the past year. In nearly every case, the declines there exceed the newspapers' overall numbers, showing that the 'quality' category is still in retreat. In the sample of about 20 papers, the overall daily circulation sank only 2.4% but the 50%-or-greater category plunged 5.2%. Those losses were reduced because the 25%-to-50%-paid category soared 40.9% and other-paid grew 4.5%.In other words, the greater the difference between the first (percentage of gain or loss) and the overall percentage is the amount that newspaper is hedging with 'other paid' and deeply discounted giveaway papers.
Here are the papers profiled by Merrill Lynch, followed by, first, the percentage gain or loss in over-50% daily circ and then the overall percentage for that paper in this period.
The Sacramento Bee +0.8 (+0.5)
Minneapolis Star Tribune -0.4 ( +0.3)
North County Times (Calif.) -0.4 ( -1.9)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch -0.8 (+1.2)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel -1.4 (-0.8)
The Boston Globe -2.1 (-3.9)
The New York Times -2.2 (+0.2)
Wisconsin State Journal -2.3 (-1.6)
The Washington Post -3.8 (-2.7)
The Philadelphia Inquirer -3.9 (-3.0)
The Miami Herald -4.7 (-3.8)
Detroit Free Press -6.1 (-2.3)
Chicago Tribune -7.5 (-6.5)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver) -9.4 (-6.5)
USA Today -9.8 (+0.3)
The Wall Street Journal -9.9 ( -1.5)
Los Angeles Times -12.9 (-7.7)
New Haven (Conn.) Register -20.9 (-1.8)
INCREASESDefinition of 'other paid' from ABC.
The Star-Ledger (Newark, N.J.) 83.7%
New York Post 60.4%
Charlotte Observer 40.4%
The San Diego Union-Tribune 33.3%
The Tennessean 32.3%
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) 31.3%
Fort Worth Star-Telegram 26.7%
The Wall Street Journal 25.7%
The Tampa Tribune 24.8%
Kansas City Star 23.5%
Denver Post 23.5%
Riverside Press-Enterprise 23.3%
The New York Daily News 21.3%
The New York Times 20.2%
The Seattle Times 20.1%
DECREASES
The Philadephia Daily News -50.3
The Arizona Republic -50.0
The Baltimore Sun -49.8
The Orlando Sentinel -46.2
The Philadelphia Inqurier -23.2%
The Rocky Mountain News (Denver) -19.7
Des Moines Register -13.6%
Asbury Park Press -9.8%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution -9.7
Merrill also noted, however, that while overall industry declines were about 2% daily and 3% Sunday, slippage was much worse in so-called "quality" circulation that was 50% or better paid: down 5% daily and 7% on Sunday.Translation: It is spin to suggest the decline was 2%. It's two-and-a-half times that at 5%. Sunday papers are even worse. Down 7% average. And those are average losses across the board for the industry.
Digging into the numbers, specifically in the other paid category. Merrill noted that while many newspaper companies during Q1 earnings calls indicated they are trying to cut back on third party and discount copies, the numbers so far tell a different story: "Our initial analysis of select newspapers shows that in many cases 'other paid' circulation" numbers were "seemingly in direct conflict with some company remarks."As noted before, 'other paid circulation' refers to giveaway newspapers to hotels, company employees, and schools, and those papers deeply discounted (25%-50% off the cover price.) Overall, if you don't count the giveaways and advertiser-sponsored giveaways or the trash in the driveway giveaways or the free hotel newspaper or the 10-cent-a copy coffeeshop papers, the decline in circulation overall for the industry was not 2% daily and 3% Sunday, but as Merrill Lynch calculated "a decline of 5% daily and 7% on Sunday." Translation: newspapers that claim they are relying less on deep discounted papers are lying. People in the know, however, know it. Newspapers certainly do.
Prudential put a pencil to the matter and found that the top 50 papers continued to rely on discounted copies -- where newspapers sold at 25% to 50% of the cover prices -- finding that this category increased 16.6%. And other paid circulation rose 10% from the March 2004 Fas-Fax.
Ottawa today is all politics and no government, all partisanship and no purpose. The current spectacle is dissolving respect for parliaments and politics and going some way to dissolving respect for the country both are supposed to serve. Democracy is not a series of one-day deals cut for a spike in the polls or an evening newscast. Mr. Martin can short circuit all of this. His government is now nothing more than improvisation and an hourly calculation. He should resign. We should vote, and Gomery must continue.Read it all. Archives of his CBC pieces can be found here.
There are several inquiries under way into the oil-for-food scandal, under which UN sanctions on Iraq were flouted and millions of dollars apparently diverted.But this fact is REALLY, REALLY worrisome: "Mr Strong, who was closely involved with the six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear programme..." as -- get this -- the Globe and Mail informs us -- "UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's envoy for North Korea."
The total average paid circulation includes copies of the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News purchased at a discount or given away free and are listed as "other paid circulation" in the March 2005 report. The number of copies that fall under this category rose to 71,649, up from 48,885 in March 2004 -- an increase of 46.6 percent. [ Bolding mine ]Newspapers can also count those papers given free to employees as well.
The March 2005 report from the Audit Bureau does not itemize these copies, but according to previous reports they include discounted copies, copies paid for by third party sponsors or those distributed to schools as part of educational programs, to hotel guests, restaurants, airlines and delivered to specific neighborhoods.
At the Tribune-owned Orlando Sentinel, those types of daily sales jumped 53% in two years, to nearly 38,000 copies a day. But advertisers were unenthusiastic, so the newspaper pulled back. Take hotel copies, Mr. Smith says: 'Are the people staying in those hotels actually going to shop with those advertisers?' The answer in many cases, he says, is no. In February, the Sentinel sent a letter to advertisers saying it was cutting many of the nearly 20,000 papers a day it sent to hotels.That's quite a sizable figure when you consider that their circulation is stated as 248,492. Not surprisingly, padding their circulation figures with give-aways, even allowable by ABC rules, wasn't included in the the list of "major steps you have taken in the last four years to increase readership" given to the Readership Institute. Still, the give-away figure for hotels alone explains why the Orlando Sentinel, unlike the St. Petersburg Times, experienced no drop in circulation in the wake of the 2004 hurricanes.
The Orlando Sentinel Endorsed John Kerry, First Endorsement of a Democrat in 40 Years. "Our choice was not dictated by partisanship. ... Indeed, it has been 40 years since the Sentinel endorsed a Democrat - Lyndon Johnson - for president." [Orlando Sentinel editorial, 10/24/04]The theme was enlarged at the California Democrat Party site.
John Kerry Has Been Endorsed by 169 Publications with 19.6 Million Total Circulation. John Kerry has received the endorsements of 169 publications, including 150 daily newspapers, with a total circulation of more than 19.6 million. Of these, 40 publications, with a total circulation of more than 3.4 million, endorsed George W. Bush in 2000. [Bacon's MediaSource]
