SF Gate omits dems and changes stories.

[Renew Deal]

Somone posted this somewhere else.

Poll: Clark moves to the front in New York; Bush fades
MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
©2003 Associated Press

(10-01) 10:14 PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) --

Wesley Clark is among the leading Democratic candidates in New York just two weeks after he entered the presidential race, according to a poll of state voters that also shows President Bush's ratings falling.

Full text:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/01/national1314EDT0610.DTL

The bad news is Clark doesn't have a friend at sfgate. Apparently Clark's name has been totally cut out of the same version of the same AP story:

Poll: New Yorkers view of President Bush plummets; he now trails five Democrats
MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, October 1, 2003
©2003 Associated Press

(10-01) 08:49 PDT ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) --

President Bush's support among New Yorkers has dropped since June to the point that he now trails five Democrats in the heavily Democratic state, according to a poll released Wednesday.

The Qunnipiac University Polling Institute found the Republican president's approval rating is at its lowest in New York, 42 percent, down from 52 percent in June. Bush's previous low was 44 percent in June 2001, before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and Bush's historic high support -- 82 percent approval -- that had New York Republicans saying he could win New York's electoral votes in 2004.

Full text:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/10/01/national1149EDT0581.DTL

What is going on here?

Whoever did it though has no justification. No way could they claim they were "writing about it from a different angle" it is obviously anti-Clark, erasing his very existence.

Most telling is the stated results of the poll:

"Those polled favored former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean 47 percent to 43 percent for Bush; backed Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman 49 percent to 42 percent; Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry 48 percent to 43 percent; and Missouri Rep. Richard GeGephardt6 percent to 44 percent."

In the "unedited version", Clark lead bush 48 percent to 41 percent.

[AP]

1. that's pretty incriminating...I think Clark's existence is bad for Arnold

so CA media will be ignoring him completely until after Oct 7. After that, they'll just lie about him like they lie about everything else.

[w4rma]

2. Second story is more correct. Clark, Dean, Kerry and 2 other Dems beat *.

There is no reason for Clark's name to be *the* headline.

[Renew Deal]

4. That's not the point.

They took an AP story and changed it. They left out Clark's poll numbers. Maybe you can stop with your bias for a second and notice it's a media hack job.

[w4rma]

5. I thought the AP story was the hack job. Remember 4 other Dems

also beat Bush. Maybe you can stop with your bias for a second and notice it's an AP media hack job.

[zeemike]

3. Perhaps they see

That they have been laying it on too thick lately and don’t want us to think that they have already selected the next demo nominee.