The Times’ Freudian slip

Over in the Clearwater Times there is an interesting peek into how newspapers (consciously or unconsciously) reinforce the status quo. In an editorial about citizen complaints about the recent Ironman Triathlon (a pet project of Mayor Frank Hibbard), the Times editorialized: Mayor Frank Hibbard, who has made promoting health and fitness part of his first term, lamented that there have been criticisms of the triathlon. [emphasis added] Hibbard has been elected mayor just one time, in 2004 when

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