NH Journalism as Party Stenography, Vol. 345889

by: Dean Barker

Sun Nov 14, 2010 at 13:17:09 PM EST

NHGOP Spox Ryan Williams, in the UL:

Williams gleefully pointed out that photos of the people Bass and Guinta replace, U.S. Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes, have already been scrubbed from the Democratic Party website, which still features President Obama, Lynch and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

Kevin Landrigan:

State Democrats aren't waiting for official terms to end to assume their minority role.
The party's website got scrubbed last week, with reference to "N.H.'s majority party'' deleted and the smiling faces of still-sitting Congressmen Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter removed from their top right billing on the home page.

To be fair, it's impossible to tell whether Landrigan expressed the same glee when he stenographed Williams' talking point on this non-story. Or did he find it first and tell Williams? Or am I expected to be dumb enough to believe that it just happened to show up on two of the Sunday political columns independently?

It's the laziness that bugs me more than the various allegations of bias.

(h/t on the latter, Jonny B.)

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