Behold The Major Networks' Leading Assignment Editor
October 19, 2007 -- 10:19 AM EST // //
It never ceases to astonish this blog that so many self-described journalists at the major networks take their cues from this guy:
Maybe Drudge will package the next LA Times piece with pictures of buck-toothed Chinese villains and audio of gongs and other exotic-sounding musical instruments from the Far East.
Natch, the headline links to this article in the Los Angeles Times, which takes the Hillary campaign to task for getting contributions from Chinese people without home addresses. The article does raise some legit issues, but as Kevin Drum says, there's just no smoking gun here yet.
One thing that did leap out about the article was its description of Chung Seto, who's a liason to the Chinese community for Hillary. She's described merely as someone "who came to this country as a child from Canton province." The LA Times doesn't tell you that Seto is also a prominent New York Democrat who served as a top official at the state Democratic committee, so there's nothing surprising at all about her raising money for Hillary. This omission, of course, makes this sound all the more ethnic and mysterious.
Whatever, as rank as this headline is, no doubt the good people at the TV networks will dutifully follow their leading assignment editor's command for coverage and be all over this.
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