Featured Topic - January 30th 2008 - John McCain

Our featured topic today is John McCain. The dust has settled in Florida and McCain has emerged the victor. What is the coverage surrounding this win? Is the media proclaiming McCain the winner already? Are they portraying him in a fair and honest manner? Help us find and review good journalism about McCain.

Super Tuesday is just around the corner and as some candidates start to drop out, the others aren't going to hold back any punches in the coming week. It's important that when we review any of the 90 stories in the McCain section we keep a strong eye out for quality content that profiles a person that has been influential in American politics and could potentially be elected our commander and chief.

The New York Times, for example, takes an in depth look at the candidate in an article titled "McCain’s Fiscal Mantra Becomes Less Is More" (review it here).

The community at "Social Vote," a Web 2.0 social political news site, gave the article 58 votes, which is towards the higher end of their spectrum and while that does help to show the relative importance of the story, reviewing this same piece on NewsTrust one can really dive into the strengths and weaknesses of the journalism. So far our reviewers have given it low ratings in balance, context and fairness. Others around the web seem to also think this piece lacked overall insight.

What do you think?

Help us find and review the best content on John McCain. Come back to the blog later to find out how we did in searching for content about the Bush Administration.

To take a look at what we found from our last featured topic, the Bush Administration, click here.