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Friday, August 05, 2011

Slanting the News -- Drudge Headlines

Drudge, or someone on his staff, is a genius at arranging links and pictures on his site to make editorial comment without explicitly doing so.

Here's his set of links to stories on the racial attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair:

'Mob' beatings at WI state fair...

'Hundreds of young black people beating white people'...

Fairgoers 'pulled out of cars'...

'They were just going after white people'...

Heightened security...


See how they tell a story without explicit commentary? Drudge does that a lot. And as a kicker, the same page links to this story:

Men Open Fire on Crowded Philadelphia Bus...

VIDEO...


It used to be that only the New York Times did this stuff really well. Now Drudge is giving them competition.


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