Give Us a Break!: Does the San Francisco Chronicle Show Hillary Bias?

Check out the front page of the sfgate.com today:

(Click to view larger.) The headline corresponding to the article about Edwards reads, "Is Edwards "Out of Touch'?"

Reading that, I thought, "What? What are they talking about? Who said? That seems a bold statement."

Of course I clicked to find out more. Once you get to the article, the headline changes yet again to "Edwards first candidate to gain feedback through online dialogue."

Feedback?  What kind of feedback? We still don't know. In fact, we don't know much about what this article is about.
 

Read on and you realize that the teaser and secondary headlines are talking about a MySpace/MTV forum or "dialog" in which John Edwards participated yesterday. A forum where 90% of the audience members providing instantaneous feedback "liked what they saw of Edwards overall."

Except that the Chronicle reporter, Joe Garofoli, failed to mention that fact until the 8th paragraph (aka "the hinterlands" of a newspaper article.)

Several commenters point out that the Chronicle is clearly showing its anti-Edwards bias. What say you?

Comments

[pamela]

I will have to pay closer attention to the Chron. I have not thought of them as anti- Edwards, or pro Hillary either.