Covering vs Covering Over

One way to be labeled a media conservative is to cover all the news :

Then there is the complaint that Drudge is a conservative.

But he seldom writes. He links. And the things he links to appear in liberal publications as well as conservative ones as well as middle-of-the-road sites.

He did not become popular by suppressing the news. That seems to be the job of the editors at Newsweek.

Related: Powerline questions Romney and Obama coverage: "Why the disparate treatment? It's hard to avoid the conclusion that the Associated Press covers candidates based on their party affiliation."

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED 22 Dec, 2007