Popular blogger Don Surber, who is also a columnist for the Charleston Daily Mail in West Virginia, knows a little something about journalism. Putting that knowledge to work today, he came down hard on The News & Observer‘s fawning coverage of the Joe Biden visit to North Carolina yesterday:

McClatchy Newspapers headlined the story, “Biden calls Republicans ‘wildly out of step’ during N.C. fundraiser,” and got a Drudge Report link.

Too bad it did not run a newspaper story with the headline.

What readers got was something from a JournoList, not a journalist.

The story in question was written by Rob Christensen, the N&O’s top political reporter. The Journolist reference is to the scandal of the past few days in which liberal journalists have been revealed in emails as partisan hacks. Surber goes on to point out the many, many polls that show the Obama administration “out of step” with the American people, and wonders when the N&O plans to fact-check Biden, adding:

But obviously, McClatchy Newspapers is in lockstep with Joe Biden.