PartyIdentification

Times Plays Two More Rounds of 'Name That Party' in Tuesday's Paper

Two controversial Democrats, one arrested for security leaks, another under investigation for alleged shady financial dealings under his governorship. Neither were identified as Democrats by the ...

Seelye Again Flubs John Edwards' Democratic ID; Zeleny Calls Indictment a 'Tragedy All the Way Around'

Jeff Zeleny on Washington Week in Review has some doubts about the campaign finance prosecution of John Edwards: "And of course, it's not ended very well for him and it's a tragedy all the way ...

Times Initially Omits John Edwards' Party ID After Indictment; Quick to Label Troubled GOP

Katharine Seelye's initial online report on the indictment on campaign finance violations of John Edwards, the former senator and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate left out one crucial word: ...

NYT Early to Party ID When GOP's in Trouble - Democrat Labels Often Never Arrive

The Times let its readers know in the headline and first sentence that politician Mark Kirk, caught exaggerating about his military service, was a Republican. Yet profiles on prominent Democrats ...

Times Doesn't Get to the (Democratic) Party in Detroit

Nick Bunkley's story on Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Democratic mayor of Detroit, being sent to prison for five years for violating his probation failed to provide his party ID. By ...

NYT Still Late to the 'Party' When It Comes to Identifying Scandal-Plagued Dems

The Times' didn't mention the Democratic affiliation of controversy-plagued Connecticut Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal until paragraph three of its expose. By ...

John Edwards, Man Without a Party

A Democratic senator who was the target of a death threat was readily identified as a Democrat - but disgraced former Democratic senator and presidential candidate John Edwards was simply...John ...
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