Chronicle Owes Readers an Explanation

I wrote on February 24 that the San Francisco Chronicle’s front-page story falsely claiming “momentum” for Governor Schwarzenegger (See “A Bad Week for the Chronicle,” http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2977#more ) was part of a long running, pro-Arnold disinformation campaign. Further support for this assessment comes in a story in the Sunday, February 26 New York Times, “Schwarzenegger is Forced Into a Political Tightrope Act,” that notes how the Governor is in fact“ politically wounded and searching for support even among the normally reliable base of backers at the (Republican) functions.” The differing political assessments in the Chronicle and Times would alone not prove bad faith, but the Times’ reportage of significant poll results that the Chronicle intentionally omitted certainly does.