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Topic: Today's Front Pages: Headline Writers Avoid Calling a Winner |
Today's Front Pages: Headline Writers Avoid Calling a Winner
Slate, by Josh Voorhees
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Posted By:earlybird, 10/4/2012 7:24:09 AM
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| As we explained late last night pundits wasted little time scoring Wednesday's debate a clear cut win for Mitt Romney. But a quick scan of the morning's front pages shows that—fortunately for President Obama—the nation's headline writers and art team largely avoided specifics in the hours between when the debate ended and when Thursday's editions went to press. As you'll see there was the occasional talk of a "Romney doing well; Obama didn't err," but that type of punditry was largely relegated to subheads. A typical bold-faced headline, meanwhile, involved the two men "sparring," "clashing" or "debating."
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Comments: Well, duh.
Voorhees includes a sampling from some of the swing states to illustrate his point.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Refried, 10/4/2012 7:30:02 AM (No. 8909015)
A bit earlier some were castigating Gov. Palin for predicting this. Crow pie time!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
dallasdude, 10/4/2012 7:31:50 AM (No. 8909019)
"I mean, I — I had a friend who said, you don’t just pick the winners and losers; you pick the losers. All right? So — so this is not — this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy-secure."~~~~~~~~~ As good as it gets.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Davids918, 10/4/2012 7:33:28 AM (No. 8909025)
Which is when you KNOW Romney won decisively.
Axelrod and Matthews were on every channel trying to spin (lie) about the horrible performance from Obama.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/4/2012 7:38:09 AM (No. 8909042)
Sarah Palin can see more clearly from Wasilla than the media talking heads can see from their glass towers.
Remember, Sarah was the one who saw the Obamacare 'death panels' coming and pushed for domestic energy revival and independence.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mabelkitty, 10/4/2012 7:51:15 AM (No. 8909081)
Unfortunate for Obama, people no longer look to the nation's newspapers for fact and opinion. It was already hashed, cussed, and discussed online last night and communicated before the West Coast was tucked in.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 10/4/2012 7:55:08 AM (No. 8909098)
So what's so surprising about the LSM avoiding the facts? Did you expect them to become honest over night? The one thing the debates do is remove the lying media from the message, the media can't edit the live debate so Obma is on his own for once in his life and he failed as I would have expected.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
cheese, 10/4/2012 7:57:24 AM (No. 8909107)
Yes, the headline in our local online newspaper says "Obama, Romney Offer Nothing New in First Debate, U-W Eau Claire Students Say" (oh, yeah, let the students tell us what to think) and "Romney, Obama clash on Economy in First Debate". This is the paper that, when Governor Scott Walker decisively won the recall election, ran its top headline the morning after the election about money spent on refurbishing a local park. They were at home crying into their pillows, just like this morning.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msctex1, 10/4/2012 7:59:28 AM (No. 8909116)
#3, I'm not sure what Matthews was doing could be described as "spin." DA, yes -- it's openly his job. CM was in the midst of a near-breakdown, granted only more so than usual.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
tnorling, 10/4/2012 8:22:58 AM (No. 8909169)
Yea. I glanced at USA Today and I think it said something like "Romney light on economic details." And USA Today is light on facts and the truth. Not to put too fine a point on it - commie trash! It is unnerving though to see such partisanism from what purports to be an unbiased source.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dthorny, 10/4/2012 8:23:21 AM (No. 8909172)
ROMNEY WINS, ROMNEY WINS.
Romney knows economics, Obowma no show.
Romney leads, Obowma bleeds.
Romney the winner, Obowma the beginner
Romney is hailed while Obowma failed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
avikingman, 10/4/2012 8:59:01 AM (No. 8909273)
As of this moment Fox's web site still hasn't described it accurately, and it was worse at daybreak.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena, 10/4/2012 9:03:59 AM (No. 8909284)
When Romney mentioned the "unelected board" of medical advisers, all I could think about were death panels. That's what they are. They will decide, for instance, that a hip replacement is too expensive for a 90 year old who isn't likely to live that long. Or worse, that cancer treatment is a waste for someone who is "too old." Romney correctly pointed out that his plan in Massachusetts didn't have anything like this. Sarah called it, just like she called it that that the media would cover for Obama's performance.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
roger h. cook,MD, 10/4/2012 1:22:24 PM (No. 8909497)
Aw come now you really didn't think the media would let anyone but be called "winner", not realy?
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