Press Herald

Shades of Van Jones and Acorn. After a week of silence, the Portland Press Herald finally acknowledged that "Climategate" is a newsworthy issue. It's almost as though some ideologue on the news desk assumed that if the paper did not run the story it would go away.

But, as with Jones and Acorn, the story didn't disappear. It grew more legs. Stacks of revealing emails provided growing evidence of a conspiracy among leaders of the climate change community to cook the books.

Posted by mediadog

What lessons have Maine's news outlets learned from the voters' veto of the gay marriage bill? Nearly three weeks after the referendum it's difficult to find evidence that they've learned anything.

Consider this example: In the week just prior to the election, the state's largest newspapers front-paged a poll that showed the "No on 1" (against repeal of the pro-gay law) ahead by 11 points.