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WaPo's Photo Gallery -- Balanced Coverage?

by rcs1

Looking through the WaPo Photo Gallery of the DC Protest March (22 photos), I was a little confused. The first photo is of a Bush Supporting Counter Rally. And then there were several more photos of these staunch allies of the administration.  So many Bush Supporters -- WOW!   Who knew?

So I started counting. Out of 22 photos, there were 7 photos of supporters of the Bush Administration.  There were 15 photos of the Marchers. (A couple showed the stereotypical protestor vs anti-protestor shout off.)   Seemed odd to me.  Almost one third of the total picture show is devoted to the Bush Supporters.

So I checked the WaPo's own estimates for crowd sizes.

400 Bush supporters  vs. 150,000 Protestors

Now this is too easy, really. I did a little math:

For the 400 Bush supporters: 1 photo for every        57 attendees.

For the 150,000 Marchers:     1 photo for every 10,000 attendees.

So is my logic faulty? Or is this Faux-like fair and balanced?   xposted at KOS WaPo's Balanced Photo Coverage


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Been reading about WaPo's turn to the right (sorry, no links).  Trying to find "fair and balanced" gets more difficult every day.  

by rba on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 01:54:30 PM EST
And that's where we come in.  The middle path (not Centrist by any means) is the hardest to tread for it requires the most self knowledge and discipline. While the media is busy dialing for dollars and jockeying for advantage, we are busy chipping away at that Wall.  The more I see bias ,the more I am inspired to write and contribute here.

by DEFuning on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 02:14:02 PM EST
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The great Ben Bradlee paper...

rba, if you find some links or something to chew on, it would be great.   These little twists all add up.


by Cho on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 02:15:42 PM EST
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I checked and found nothing but slams from both sides (right/left), mostly blogs.  Nothing of any consequence.  TPM and others context was broader, the "MSM failure" to report accurately on Iraq before we went to war.  

I hate when that happens.  Disregard previous as delusions until proven otherwise.

by rba on Mon Sep 26, 2005 at 05:00:39 PM EST
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