A close adviser and chief fundraiser to Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was indicted on fraud charges. Yet if you read about the story in the Chicago Tribune, you won't read which party the governor belongs to. That's right. Blagojevich is a Democrat, yet the Trib didn't bother to include this fact in their piece. (On Friday (12/14/07), the Los Angeles Times published the same Tribune article. In the print edition (hard copy), the text is identical to the Trib. Yet in the same article posted on the Times web site, in the eighth paragraph of the article, the words "a Democrat" have been stealthfully inserted after the governor's name (screen shot). Hmmm. Did they know we'd be looking?)

Meanwhile, Bryan over at Hot Air showed how the Kansas City Star reported the resignation of Kansas's attorney general following a sex scandal. The original article completely omitted Paul Morrison's Democrat affiliation. Only after a phone call to the writer of the article did the Star amend the article by adding the word "Democrat" to the fourth paragraph.