December 12, 2012

The former Washington Star owner and banker to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet died Wednesday. Here’s how WJLA-TV, part of the Allbritton Communications company he founded, played his death:

And here’s how The Washington Post presented it:

Politico, owned by Allbritton Communications, did it this way:

Disclosure: I worked for Allbritton Communications from 2010 to 2012.

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Andrew Beaujon reported on the media for Poynter from 2012 to 2015. He was previously arts editor at TBD.com and managing editor of Washington City…
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