ABSTRACT
The liberal-conservative hostilities escalated in 2002 due to the close race that year for governor. The perception of the Republican gubernatorial candidate’s supporters was that the Sun’s reporting was simply tilted consistently against them in the news pages and irresponsibly over-the-top on the editorial pages. During the 2002 campaign, the Democratic Maryland Senate President called Mr. Steele “the very personification of an Uncle Tom,” but there was literally no mention of it in the paper until weeks later when Mr. Steele referenced it. Anti-Semitic actions by Democrats and liberals are usually not covered or are under-covered by the Baltimore Sun and The Washington Post. The difference between liberal print and electronic media and conservative print and electronic media is that the former generally maintain that they are disinterested parties.
