The LA Times was roundly criticized on the Right for its pathetic coverage of the recall election. Now that Schwarznegger is Governor, is it any better? Kevin Drum of the leftish Calpundit thinks not. It's still pathetic. He's really upset with their content-free article on the spending cap fiasco, something that bothered me this moring as well. Kevin thinks the bias in the Scramento bureau isn't Left or Right, though, but something far worse....
This is really starting to piss me off. Why is it that the LA Times, with three separate reporters contributing to their story, can't manage to spend a few paragraphs explaining in plain English what the points of disagreement were? Instead, the story is just an enormous mess that explains nothing except that a bunch of people in Sacramento are unhappy with some other people. Who edits this stuff?Dog Trainer, indeed.
Liberal bias? Conservative bias? Forget it. I think the LA Times Sacramento bureau has an incompetence bias. They insist on writing political stories as soap operas instead of spending some time telling us what's really at stake and what's really going on. They need to knock it off.
I also think Calpundit's right about Arnold governing by initiative. And the BCS. Three opinions in three days. He may be Bear Flag League material yet.
Posted by: Justene at December 8, 2003 09:13 AMI also posted about the initiative thing here. Maybe I'd better post something he will disagree with or people will think I'm a leftie ;-)
I'm not generally a media basher, but the LAT really annoyed me on this. Part of it was that they ran a story on Thursday that did the same thing (lots of stuff, but no explanation of what the competing proposals actually were) and then on Friday they did the exact same thing. Twice in a row really got to me.
Plus, it seems to me that the LAT's editing has gotten worse lately. They've always been a paper that runs long stories, but lately they just seem bloated beyond measure. Just paragraph after paragraph of miscellaneous quotes that don't add much to the story, and facts separated by so many sentences that it's hard to put them together and understand what's going on.
Posted by: Kevin Drum at December 8, 2003 09:47 PM