Chronicle Coverage Becoming OrwellianRandy Shawbyline‚ Feb. 28‚ 2005On February 15, the Chronicle ran a story charging the state's media with "playing footsie" with Governor Schwarzenegger, and of reporting in a "marshmallow mode" rather than "turning up the heat." The article ignored one critical point: the Chronicle routinely slants its news coverage to help the governor. The most recent evidence came a week after the Chronicle's aforementioned "media is starstruck" story, when its framing of the results of a new Field Poll differed dramatically from the coverage of the Sacramento Bee, San Jose Mercury News, and other media. |