Chronicle Owes Readers an Explanation

by Randy Shaw, Beyond Chron (reposted)

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:05AM

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.

It’s getting hard to keep up with the Chronicle’s misleading coverage of California’s 2006 Governor’s race, but the stakes are so high that we will try our best to expose their poor reporting.

Consider the latest: a Public Policy Institute poll last week that found only 40% of voters approved of Schwarzenegger’s performance, and that 33% of Republicans held negative views of him. This means that our Governor is about as popular in California as President George W. Bush, though the latter draws more support from Republicans.

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§Will Beyond Chron cover all candidates?

by peace voter

Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:02PM

RE: "It’s getting hard to keep up with the Chronicle’s misleading coverage of California’s 2006 Governor’s race, but the stakes are so high that we will try our best to expose their poor reporting. "

Yes, and we can expect the Chronicle to exclude, ignore, marginalize, and black out any mention of Peace and Freedom or Green candidates, even though they will be much more interesting and inspiring than the mediocre crop of termed-out political hacks who want to trade jobs in Sacramento.

Let's hope that Beyond Chron lives up to its name and looks beyond the corporate duopoly to give equal coverage to PFP, Green, even Libertarian candidates.

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