Some newspapers do strange things during elections.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, under orders from publisher Richard Mellon Scaife, pulled all pictures of Al Gore on the Sunday before the election, rewrote an Associated Press dispatch to play down any mention of the vice president and bumped the story of a local Gore rally inside the paper. Scaife is a conservative philanthropist who helped finance the American Spectator's investigations of President Clinton. In Maine, meanwhile, it turns out that the Portland Press Herald learned back in July of George W. Bush's 1976 conviction for driving under the influence - and chose not to report it.