Today’s Randell Beck column regarding the Dan Sutton case is a perfect example of the paper’s pro-Democrat bias. Introduction:
I began thinking about this column as an explanation why this newspaper has avoided naming the former state legislative page and the kid's father who are caught up, properly or not, in a tawdry little affair that has dominated the front pages.
The answer is simple. Disclosing that the kid’s father is a Democrat would ruin the Argus Leader’s pro-Democrat story that this is nothing but a Republican political hack job.
But this is Beck’s explanation:
Meanwhile, mindful of the teenager's right to privacy, the Argus Leader has avoided naming him. Under the theory that identifying the father also would identify the kid, we've kept the former's name out of the newspaper, too. That's standard procedure for most newspapers writing about sensitive cases involving juveniles or allegations of sexual misconduct or both. And I still believe it was the right thing to do, however messy it's turned out to be.
Since when is an eighteen year old considered a juvenile. And regarding sexual misconduct, did the Argus Leader report on the Mark Foley scandel. Yes, here is a link. And David Kranz did to. Here is the link.
The difference between Mark Foley and Dan Sutton is that one is a Republican and the other is a Democrat. That is all we need to know to understand how the Argus Leader covers things.
When the story was about Republican Foley, Kranz was all too happy to help the South Dakota Democrats politicize it at the local level:
They're starting to talk here about the trickle-down effect of former Rep. Foley's alleged sins.
"Yes, this latest scandal will affect South Dakota races. We've gotten to the point where the adage about all politics being local surrenders to the weekly barrage of another Republican scandal or another blunder in foreign policy," says Don Carr, press secretary for the state Democratic Party.
Now when the story becomes local about an "alleged sin" regarding a page, the Argus Leader’s tune is a whole lot different because the "alleged sin" is that of a Democrat. Now their story is about how the Republicans are only trying to politicize the allegations.
This is a textbook example of the Democrat bias of the Argus Leader.
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