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By Tom Blumer, Mar. 29, 2014, Newsbusters
It's no secret that the folks who run the New
York Times are big fans of gun control. It turns out that they also favor
controlling the use of the word "gun" in headlines about Democrats.
Over at National Review's Campaign Spot
yesterday, regarding the news of Democratic California Senator Leland Yee's
arrest, Jim Geraghty
noted: "The New York Times greeted that news with a one
paragraph summary on page A21 Wednesday with the headline:
'California: State Senator Accused of Corruption.'" That A21
one-paragrapher is an AP item. According to a long AP report
on Yee's arrest, Yee, a longtime gun control advocate himself, is charged with
"six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of
conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license." In addition to
burying the story in its back pages, let's look at what the Times did to the
AP's original headline:
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