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Jun. 11th, 2012 07:18 amToday on a headline inspired whim, I picked up the free Examiner paper to breeze while I metro'd to work. It's been a while since I took a look at the private conservative press. What I found was not terribly surprising:
1. Lots of adjectives strewn liberally throughout the articles on the first pages
2. No distinction of opinion vs. fact, conclusory statements galore
3. Data avoided or buried (yes, worse than the post by far)
4. Fear - lots and lots of fear and fear-interest stories (which is kind of why I picked it up myself, it's not like I'm immune)
5. Gay neutral or friendly!? In some non-headline about the gay pride thing this weekend, mention of gays, a man likely killed by a gay prostitute (noted as a career government worker, but the gay thing was not a highlight), and generally a non-fear non-challenging casual mention the gay things I saw. Interesting - maybe the right wing will get over that, or the "libertarian" part of the republicans.
6. The articles were less alarmist and annoying after the first 6-8 pages or so.
7. Pictures - many regular features had pictures of the M&F authors in business casual clothes posed back to back with their arms folded. I'm not sure why they felt the need to take up space with the short article author's pictures.
Meh.
1. Lots of adjectives strewn liberally throughout the articles on the first pages
2. No distinction of opinion vs. fact, conclusory statements galore
3. Data avoided or buried (yes, worse than the post by far)
4. Fear - lots and lots of fear and fear-interest stories (which is kind of why I picked it up myself, it's not like I'm immune)
5. Gay neutral or friendly!? In some non-headline about the gay pride thing this weekend, mention of gays, a man likely killed by a gay prostitute (noted as a career government worker, but the gay thing was not a highlight), and generally a non-fear non-challenging casual mention the gay things I saw. Interesting - maybe the right wing will get over that, or the "libertarian" part of the republicans.
6. The articles were less alarmist and annoying after the first 6-8 pages or so.
7. Pictures - many regular features had pictures of the M&F authors in business casual clothes posed back to back with their arms folded. I'm not sure why they felt the need to take up space with the short article author's pictures.
Meh.
