Divas, Mavericks, and Assasins

Tuesday's edition of the Washington Post was riddled with articles about the presidential election, but the few that really came out strongly to me were an article about how Palin is a diva and an article about someone that was going to attempt to assassinate Obama. The article about Palin was much less than complimentary and definitely had a snarky, rude tone about it. The article made many mentions about how Palin was picked because she was pretty, "another maverick", and a woman. The main thing that I thought was interesting about this biased piece was that it outlined that a McCain adviser told CNN that Palin was a diva and didn't listen to anyone, that she didn't really have a relationship with anyone in the campaign and her family, that it was all just a hoax for political gain, and that she is very demanding as far as what she wants. This paper would not print an article bashing Palin like this unless it was trying to sway voters think that Obama is the better choice because McCain's campaign is full of lies, wasteful spending (where it brings up Palin's $150,000 makeover), and general unbalanced-ness.
The other interesting article that was not far away from this particular article was the one about someone planning to assassinate Obama as well as 102 other African Americans. It brings into effect all of the political and racial implications about this topic. However, the article, as I was rather proud of, was not very political in nature except to say that Obama is leading in most national polls. I was impressed that they did not use the opportunity to reason why Obama should "still" win the presidency. Overall, it was a very non biased news article. However, all papers are biased in some capacity as to what content and articles that they wish to print in the first place. They didn't have to run the piece on Palin, nor did they have to run the piece on Obama. Their choices of articles and tones of the pieces show how the Washington Post leans, even if some articles definitely outweigh others in bias.