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Argument: Journalism bailout would be payoff for biased election coverage

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Gerry Storch. “Gov’t Bailout for Newspapers?”. Our Blook: “Consider also that many people feel America’s newspapers were basically in the tank for Obama with slanted coverage during last year’s presidential election. As Washington Post ombudsman Janet Howell wrote after the election, ‘I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did.’ If papers were now to take a bailout from the Obama administration, wouldn’t it have the look … and smell … of a payoff?”