Thursday, February 7, 2008

Mainstream Blogs: Washington Post Blogs

Stumped and The Trail both cover the presidential campaign. The Trail is written by various journalists and includes plain news articles, whereas Stumped is written by one person.
The writer of Stumped appears to be very pro-Obama. He is Andres Martinez, a journalist from Southern California. This is different from the other blogs in that the entire blog consists of his answers to letters sent in to him. There is also a commenting system, so readers can discuss political issues.
The Trail has few opinion pieces, but there does seem to be a heavy Democratic bias. For example, one article reads: "If you're a McCain you call that a smashing victory and sweep up tons of delegates, but Democrats don't work that way, because of their fetish for "fairness" and all that."

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