Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Truth in Headlines - Pretty Please?

Wow, talk about swallowing one side's messaging whole.

He wasn't fleeing his job. That's just totally absurd and untrue. Senator Hansen was doing his job by using the rules to block a vote. Blocking a vote by denying supporters a quorum is a tried and true parliamentary move. Even Honest Abe tried to do it once.

"Voters say Hansen was Right, VanderLeest Wrong"? After all, it was VanderLeest who kept trying to frame this as a referendum. But then that doesn't tell the whole story either, does it. I suppose the chore of writing headlines isn't particularly easy in the understaffed newsrooms of today but could I ask that you please value honesty over attention getting in the future?

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