Chicago PM Sunday 14 October 2012
Editors, the Wall Street Journal
Gentlepeople:
The Wall Street Journal has two charts depicting
differences between Republicans and Democrats
[“The Registration Drive: Who's Up Where” and
“TV Ad buys in Top Ten Markets of the Presidential
Race” Saturday 13 October.] In both charts the
Republicans are represented as red and the Democrats
blue. This seems to be the convention in major US
publications, started by the perennial second largest
paper in national circulation (the paper that has street
distribution boxes that try to look like TV sets) in
response to the Republican take-over of the House of
Reps in 1994.
Why does the Wall Street Journal follow this
convention? Why can't the Journal represent the
Democrats with the color of revolution and leftism,
and the Republicans with the color of the side that
won the civil war?
Arnold H Nelson
Chicago 60640 ah_nelson@yahoo.com
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