Patterico's Pontifications

5/3/2005

Taking the Race for Mayor “Seriously” — Part II

Filed under: Dog Trainer,Politics — Patterico @ 11:03 pm



It’s not that I am a fan of Mayor Hahn, but I have mocked the L.A. Times‘s penchant for ignoring his policy stances in favor of a cartoonish view of him as Boring Ol’ “Mayor Yawn.”

The paper continues this insulting and ridiculous treatment of Hahn today, with a Page B1 picture of Hahn next to some kid who is smack-dab in the middle of a huge yawn. I wish I could download it and show it to you. Just take my word for it: the yawning kid is very prominent. The yawn is not incidental to the photo; it’s the whole point. It fits with the paper’s clownish snickering about Hahn’s boring persona. My wife looked at the picture and said: “Boy, they really don’t like Hahn, do they?”

No doubt the editors who chose to run that picture yukked it up in the newsroom. But the selection says a lot more about the editors (and their penchant for attacking politicians through sneering ridicule) than it says about the mayor.

One Response to “Taking the Race for Mayor “Seriously” — Part II”

  1. Truth is, our choice in the L.A. mayor’s race is between bad and worse. Hahn is mediocre on his best days — and as for Villagarosa, I wish I could speak as “highly” as that. You’re right about the L.A. Times’ obvious bias. It is slitting it’s own throat, of course. Tacitly endorsing the Latino candidate who will likely roll out the red carpet for even more immigration is not exactly a smart maneuver for an English-language newspaper whose circulation numbers are slipping fast.

    Proverbs (8ff521)


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