Media Spotlight I

Associated Press
Bush says Senate must vote on nominees (National)

The Washington Post
Bush Pushes Senate to OK 180 Nominees (National)


These two articles written about “Bush wanting the senate to confirm his nominees” are almost identical. Both are done in straight news form and they each use only one page for the information.
The two writers even use the same quotes to highlight their stories.

The only difference in numbers I found were when Bush talked about the particulars of the time-frames that his nominees had waited. The Washington Post said,, "Three of my nominees for the Court of Appeals have waited nearly 600 days." While the Associated Press said, "About half these nominees have been waiting for more than a hundred days. More than 30 have been waiting a year or more. And nine have been waiting for more than two years."

What was really interesting in both pieces is that Bush does not bring up one nominee in particular, Steven Bradbury for assistant attorney general, but because that particular nominee is so controversial the writers both found it noteworthy to mention that Bush had intentionally not brought him up. They even both explain the details surrounding the controversy Though one article ends with a quote from Sen. Harry Reid, and the other extends the quote a bit farther they have both found the most important part of the story to be the candidate Bush did not even talk about. Interesting.