Front page roundup: Your Liberal Media on last night's Senate vote

[Newsjock]

Subtle, but insidious ... check your local paper today. Did they offer screaming headlines about how the Senate "rejected a minimum wage increase"? Of course they did. And, if your paper is like most others, it's not until the tinier subheads or the really fine print that you're reminded of all the other nasty stuff in that bill, most notably the end of the estate tax.

It would have been just as valid to write a headline that says "Senate fails to kill estate tax" with a tiny subheadline that says "Measure was linked to minimum-wage increase," but that would be putting an unacceptable spin on things. When it's the other way around, though, it's merely fair and balanced.

Surprisingly, of the dozens of newspapers I checked randomly this morning at the Newseum, more than half had no front-page story at all on the vote (perhaps because it came so late for the East). But of those that did, there were some real whoppers. Get a load of this headline from the front page of the Las Vegas Review Journal!
Senate Democrats block Republican bid to raise minimum wage

Tri-City Herald, Wash.: Senate rejects bill on wages
The Olympian, Wash.: Cantwell's vote key in defeating wage bill
The Fresno Bee: Senate rejects wage increase
The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.: Minimum wage bill blocked in Senate
The Charleston Gazetta, W.Va.: GOP's wage bill rejected
Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.: Minimum wage raise is scuttled

Kudos, however, to these papers (among others, perhaps) that GOT IT:
Lewiston Tribune, Idaho (yes, Idaho): Minimum wage/estate tax legislation: Senate blocks final vote on linked bill
The News Tribune, Tacoma: Tax, wage bill dies in Senate
Los Angeles Daily News: Linked tax-wage bill fails in Senate

[ixion]

1. In other news, the Senate will vote themselves another pay increase

'cause they can. :grr:

[lonestarnot]

4. and the richies another tax cut.

[katinmn]

2. The RW wouldn't be able to screw Americans w/o media duplicity

If anyone wants to check their front page today and compare which ones are stenographers for the Bush Folly and which ones want to serve facts, visit Newseum for hundreds of front pages.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

[babylonsister]

3. Thanks for the link, katinmn; that's quite a site! nt

[katinmn]

6. It's a great resource for comparisons as suggested by Newsjock.

A great time stealer, too. :-)

[cally]

5. Another day, another outrage by the media

k&r

[blogslut]

7. And ironically

...if it had passed, the Repubs would be holding press conferences and spreading the meme that they gave working Americans a minimum wage raise.