{"id":2536,"date":"2020-02-21T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2020-02-22T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T18:39:35","slug":"union-tribune-snubs-county-supervisor-candidate-alex-galicia-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=2536","title":{"rendered":"Union-Tribune Snubs County Supervisor Candidate Alex Galicia Yet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since day one, it has been abundantly clear that the San Diego Union-Tribune<\/em> hasn\u2019t been putting forth any effort to provide unbiased coverage of the 2020 election cycle. Though they\u2019ve made some amends to the candidates they\u2019ve excluded, it\u2019s not enough\u2014they\u2019re still coyly slipping bias into their articles, stripping certain candidates of their well-deserved fair treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alex Galicia, the Republican Party of San Diego County’s endorsed candidate for the District 1 slot on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, hasn’t received any U-T<\/em> coverage\u2014until now. The Union-Tribune<\/em> finally decided to acknowledge more than four of the eight candidates running for the seat, but their coverage of those who didn\u2019t fit their narrative was lackluster, to say the least.<\/span><\/p>\n

The cover photo of the most recent article<\/a> on the race only included the four candidates that the U-T<\/em> had interviewed previously<\/a>. In the caption, all four were mentioned by name as \u201cthe candidates running for San Diego County Board of Supervisors District 1.\u201d One of those four, Sophia Rodriguez, hasn\u2019t even met the criteria that the U-T<\/em> implied they were using to determine candidate coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of the piece, Gustavo Solis, acknowledged that Sophia Rodriguez was one of the five candidates who hasn’t raised $10,000, yet still elected to give her a primetime slot. An interview, cover photo, and extended coverage is an awful lot for an “unserious candidate,” if one uses the arbitrary standard of seriousness forwarded by the Union-Tribune<\/em>. When confronted by the obvious bias implicit in all of this, Solis seethed:<\/p>\n

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Don't call me a biased journalist. The article mentions that a Democrat and independent candidate also raised less than $10K. I didn't single Galicia out in a negative way. Maybe a better question to ask is why hasn't the party done more to support its official candidate?<\/p>\n

— Gustavo Solis (@JournoGoose) February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n