Wednesday, October 27, 2004

The New Yorker endorsement

For the first time in, well, a very very long time (perhaps the first time ever), the New Yorker is endorsing a candidate for President. What is most striking about this piece though, is that of its 4523 words, 3856 are devoted to why Bush shouldn't be reelected and only 667 are devoted to Kerry. In the opening sentences of Kerry's "endorsement" the Editors say "but the challenger has more to offer than the fact that he is not George W. Bush." I'm not sure if they really believe that. By my rudimentary metric, Bush's "badness" outweighs Kerry's goodness 6:1.

I wonder how, across all the Kerry endorsements, the pro-Kerry column inches stack up against the anti-Bush ones.

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