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The NY Sun Notices Guardian Letter Campaign
London Guardian Seeks to Rally Voters Against BushA liberal British newspaper's campaign to influence the White House race, by having its readers write to undecided voters in a key county in the must-win state of Ohio, has prompted senior Republican lawmakers to question whether the Capitol Hill press accreditation should be withdrawn from the publication's two Washington correspondents. The write-in campaign started this week by the London-based, 400,000-circulation Guardian, is focused on Ohio's Clark County and is seen as a bid to deliver the state to Democrat John Kerry. Readers are being encouraged by the paper to sign up by e-mail to receive the names and mailing addresses of Clark County voters and are advised to be courteous in their missives. House Speaker Dennis Hastert is unimpressed, however, by what the Guardian calls its "public service." His spokesman, John Feehery, said the Guardian's campaign is partisan and therefore "unethical" and "inappropriate" for a newspaper. "We tend to let the Standing Committee of Correspondents decide on accreditation status in the press galleries, but the Guardian's action raises serious questions, and we would hope the committee will look at all of this very closely. It is a clear problem and the position of their journalists is untenable," Mr. Feehery told the Sun. Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-15 |
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