I just posted a column in Media Mangle that mentions my newsroom campaign in the 1990s to get our reporters and editors at The Herald-Sun
to label liberal groups liberal if they insisted on labeling
conservative groups conservative. As I finished that column I turned to
Newbusters and found this:
Salon.com is mentioned without any description of its ideology or
history: “Salon.com is an Internet magazine of news and opinion.”
It’s a post about The Washington Post‘s story
about Salon’s recent quoting of one named and several unnamed former
UVa football teammates of Virginia Sen. George Allen Jr. saying that
Allen used racist language back then (1972-73). One would think that a
site so identified with the left would be described that way by
reporters.
