More tales of 'liberal' media: BG reporter blogs of preference for Bush

[AP]

Boston Globe reporter used blogs to attack Kerry, support Bush during '04 campaign

While reporting on the 2004 presidential campaign for The Boston Globe, technology reporter Hiawatha Bray apparently wrote posts for several weblogs in which he declared his support for President Bush, attacked Sen. John Kerry, and bolstered discredited allegations by the anti-Kerry group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (now Swift Vets and POWs for Truth).

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On November 4, 2004, Bray apparently posted a message to the moderated electronic mailing list Interesting-People.org. He wrote: "As a Bush supporter, I'm feeling pretty good right now, so maybe I can't quite appreciate some of the bitter commentary I'm reading here." Later in the same e-mail, he delivered a message to those who voted for Kerry:


So suck it up, you guys. You lost, and that means that you and your friends did something wrong. You didn't get your message across or you need to change your position on some issues. Whatever. In any case, it's about YOU. Not the 59 million who didn't agree with you. You've got to do something different. Focus on that and you've got a chance.


One more thing: I know some victorious Republicans are gloating. Ignore them. Their day will come, as it does for all of us.


The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times Company, whose ethics handbook, Ethical Journalism: A Handbook of Values and Practices for the News and Editorial Departments, lays out specific guidelines for the political behavior of its journalists, such as: "Journalists have no place on the playing fields of politics. Staff members are entitled to vote, but they must do nothing that might raise questions about their professional neutrality or that of The Times. In particular, they may not campaign for, demonstrate for, or endorse candidates, ballot causes or efforts to enact legislation."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200503020002

[Wat_Tyler]

1. What sort of a name is Hiawatha Bray?

Does this person even exist? ;-)

[JI7]

2. like Cinnamon

[SpiralHawk]

3. The name Hiawatha is a corruption of the

Haudenasenee (Iroquois) name Ay-on-a-watha. The first man to bear that name was ally and companion to the Peacemaker, and he did enormous good throughout his life. Check it out.

Longfellow later borrowed the name, and changed it a bit to Hiawatha to write his fictional and tedious poem.

In my view, Bray is pretty good reporter on computer and other technological matters. But his political ethics appear twisted.

Just one more case in the Overall Climate of BushCo Propaganda.

[Just Me]

4. Disgusting.

I just cannot comment beyond that: disgusting! :puke: