Good Media Coverage of Tony Snow

Here's a much better piece about the appointment of Tony Snow as President Bush's Press Secretary, from the L.A. Times of all places. Compare it to the Financial Times article I mentioned in my previous post.

Note the neutral, but accurate, headline for the L.A. Times article:

"Bush Names Talk Show Host Press Secretary"

Much better than the FT headline:

"Bush Picks Conservative Pundit as Press Spokesman."

Then the first 2 paragraphs:

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"To the surprise of no one, President Bush named conservative commentator Tony Snow as his press secretary today to replace Scott McClellan, who announced his resignation last week.

"Tony already knows most of you," Bush, with tongue in cheek, told reporters in the White House briefing room, "and he's agreed to take the job anyway.""
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The description "conservative commentator" is again accurate and neutral. President Bush is even shown in a good light, making a joke, which is highly unusual in the mainstream media.

The only questionable part of the article is the mention of Rev. Moon in the last paragraph:

"He also wrote editorials for the Washington Times, the conservative paper started three decades ago by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon as an alternative to the Washington Post."

But I can let that slide.

Not a bad piece of reporting.