LIBERALS, LIBERALS, LIBERALS: Today's Ann Coulter column, "Liberal arguments: Still a quagmire" is the first one in which "liberal" and "liberals" are being tagged and evaluated as possible partisan Democratic words. As those words constitute 13 out of the 19 negative Democratic references, they raise the Partisanship Index for that column from 94 to 97.
WSJ VS. OPINIONJOURNAL.COM: Reader Michael Kurtz has periodically found it necessary to remind me that the Wall Street Journal and its OpinionJournal.com website are not the same thing. A couple of weeks ago he tried again to keep me straight on that point when I discussed the Michael Tomasky report:
Concerning the comparison of LIP's results for WSJ vs NYT with Tomasky you should note that LIP does not measure the WSJ editorial page in any way. While the NYT has a number of regular columnists which LIP follows, the WSJ is not arranged the same way. For example yesterday the WSJ had 4 opinion pieces, one by a regular columnist. LIP did not evaluate any of these, Rosett, the (now inactive) LIP writer was only on the Opinion Journal web page, not in the paper itself. Likewise today the WSJ has 4 opinion pieces, one by a regular columnist; the LIP (inactive again) columnist, Fund, is again not in the actual paper, but is on the OJ page.Only two of the columnists listed by the WSJ as columnists are covered by LIP (Henninger and Bartley), all the others are OJ columnists, who sometimes get their stuff into the main paper, but not usually. The WSJ columnists who cover politics are: Bartley, Gonzalez, Harwood & Seib, Henninger, Hunt, Jenkins, Kempe, Melloan, Murray, Restall, and Wessel.
He's right of course. Since I track only columnists which are accessible on the OpinionJournal.com site, I need to remember to stress the distinction between the OpinionJournal.com and the actual WSJ, and that the difference is more extensive than just the omission of Al Hunt.
| Author/ Affiliation |
Title/ Date |
words | PI | Partisan References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ann Coulter Universal Press Syndicate |
Liberal arguments: Still a quagmire 28 August 2003 |
1193 | 97 | 19D-: Liberal, Liberals, liberals, liberals, liberals, Liberals, liberals, liberals, liberals, Democrats, liberals, liberal, Democrats, Clinton, Clinton, Clinton, Democrats, liberals, liberals 9R+: Bush administration, George Bush, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Bush administration, Republicans, Bush, Bush 1R= |
| Richard Cohen Washington Post |
Still Lost in Space 28 August 2003 |
865 | 12 | 3R+: George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Reagan 2R-: Bush, the president 3R= |
| Bob Herbert Inactive |
The Kids Left Behind 28 August 2003 |
857 | 0 | 4D=, 12R= |
| John Fund Inactive |
Alabamians seem to be a lot smarter than their governor. 28 August 2003 |
1708 | 0 | 9D=, 13R= |
| Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe |
More prisoners, less crime 28 August 2003 |
914 | 0 | |
| Thomas Sowell Creators Syndicate |
'Fairness' in sentencing 28 August 2003 |
778 | 0 |