Monday, July 14, 2008

Journal Times Bias

Some of you may remember a few years back when Racine County government was pushing for an indoor ice arena. The idea was contoversial and actively promoted by the Racine Journal Times.

Now fastforward a few years. Yesterday I read in the Milwaukee Journal that a huge indoor soccer complex has been approved by the Sturtevant Town Board. If this private project gets completed, the Racine area will be on its way to being the soccer capital of Wisconsin if not the midwest.

This is newsworthy IMHO. Yet I have found no mention of it in the Racine Journal Times. I don't conclude that JT prefers hockey or figure skating to soccer. I do conclude that they prefer public expenditures to private projects.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why do you conclude that? Do you have a bias?

Denis Navratil said...

Yes anon, I am biased in favor of objectivity and facts. The facts are extensive coverage and cheerleading for a publicly funded ice arena and (until today, page 15A) zero coverage for a privately funded soccer facility. Admittedly, there are other explanations for the JT's divergent coverage of similar stories. It could be that they prefer to cover controversial events. It could be that they simply weren't aware of the soccer facility. So I am not offering facts here anon, just opinion based on facts and extensive observation of the JT. As I see it anon, the JT gets positively giddy about publicly funded projects of any kind that are "for the children" but are far less interested in the private sector stuff. How do you see it?

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