"Doug Kanter" wrote in message news:24Yif.584.


My memory's fuzzy with regard to those incidents. How many occurrences
were there?


Those and a couple of others, iirc. For a newspaper that wants to preserve
the perception that they are the paper of record for the USA, any number
greater than zero is disastrous. They also tailor their selective wording
for subtle innuendo, as does the Boston Globe (now naught more than a
suburban supplement to the Times). All through the last campaign, the
intentions were obvious. Whenever Kerry met with some group to ask for
support, column heads would be phrased as Kerry meets...., Kerry
confers....., Kerry solicits. When GB did the same thing, the wording was
more aggressive, more violent: Bush hits......, Bush targets......, Bush
chases. Its was never too hard to see what was going on.