Barack Obama
At first quick glance I thought that media darling Barack Obama was shown walking on water in that big color picture in Wednesday’s Rocky (page 25A). But no, it was just blue carpet or concrete, not sure which.
However, your newsroom editors really outdid themselves with their big play of an incredibly fluffy and marginally newsworthy story by an Associated Press writer trying her darndest to make a shaky connection of the new Illinois senator with Abraham Lincoln (both from Illinois — wow!). I was also struck by your copy editor’s fawning headline above the story: “Senator following in footsteps of fellow Illinoisan Lincoln.”
If Obama were to don a stovepipe hat and begin growing a beard I suppose your journalists would try to convince us readers that reincarnation is surely at work here.
All Obama did was file paperwork for a presidential exploratory committee the day before, but what an opportunity this made for newsroom liberals to once again puff up their favorite candidate. And another opportunity for newspaper readers who want some fairness and objectivity on the news pages to once again sigh and consider canceling their subscriptions.
Alan Hobden
Florissant
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