Daniel Cody - “Left on the Lake”

I’ve been saying for months that Wisconsin’s largest daily newspaper has it in for Democrats, and particularly for Gov. Doyle. Every Sunday, there seems to be another front page story about how Doyle ‘could be’ involved in “another” illegal deal involving campaign contributions.

Turns out it goes beyond just making a Doyle look bad on a regular basis, it’s also about helping out Republican Mark Green. From Milwaukee magazine’s Bruce Murphy:

For months, JS reporters have been telling me that the newspaper will under-cover the stem cell research issue because it would hurt Mark Green, the Republican challenger to Gov. Jim Doyle. Green opposes embryonic stem cell research, and Doyle backs it, as do most voters, polls show.

JS reporter Katherine M. Skiba has written extensively about the dispute between Congress and President George Bush over a bill to fund embryonic stem cell research. Last week, she did two stories about Bush’s veto of this legislation. But Skiba typically ignores or buries the fact that Green voted against this legislation, which passed by big margins in both the House and Senate.

Read the whole article over at the Milwaukee magazine website and prepared to not be shocked.

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