For example, they say, the rats were big news and the dog was not. All the networks jumped on the story, playing the subliminal image over and over. Mike Rosen, a conservative radio host at Denver's KOA, says Gore's canine flub was worse because there is no evidence that Bush knew about the rats image. In their souls they desperately don't want the Republicans to control Congress and a Republican president to name the next two or three Supreme Court justices. This is the most egregiously spun campaign that I've seen since I've been following politics, and I'm 55.
Republicanism is an idea that journalists find has the ring of truth.
I don't think that has anything to do with anybody's political views. Our instinct is to look at them as trimmers. And there are complications in Republican theories about the liberal media, which have been a GOP staple for three decades. What's more, the media provided unusually upbeat coverage of John McCain, a conservative Republican, during the primaries. News Jobs AP Shopping Archives Entertain.