I think that the opinion pages of the NY Times and Washington Post are worth watching because the shape the tone of coverage for a lot of the media. I am looking at the for if they help or undermine Dubya.
The first editorial is on gay marriage.
The second, "Squeezing the Poor for Votes", hammers Dubya's compassionate conservative creditionals. "It turns out that hundreds of thousands of poor and low-income families will lose child care and housing assistance if the administration's ballyhooed spending cuts take effect....The savings from the draconian budget theatrics would total no more than $4.9 billion. This is less than 1 percent of the record $521 billion deficit Mr. Bush helped create with tax cuts weighted toward the affluent (whose top 1 percent will net a $45 billion boon in this year alone)."
The third, "Undemocratic Tunisia", calls on Dubya to offer the visiting President of Tunisia "some constructive public criticism on the value of free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary." The piece is a subtle jab that if Dubya is going to justify invading and occupying Iraq becase of the evilness of Saddam, he needs to address the same type of behaviour by the President of Tunisia while he is visiting.
The fourth is a call to Congress "to monitor spyware and encourage the development of privacy standards that protect computer users from intrusion."
Nicholas Kristof has a Op-Ed that supports Dubya's policy in snowmobiling in Yellowstone and hammers the environmentalists who oppose it as being unreasonable. "The central problem with the environmentalists' position is that banning snowmobiles would deny almost everyone the opportunity to enjoy Yellowstone in winter -- and that can't be green."
William Safire continues to demonstrate why he should be put out to pasture with a column that bashes every democrat in sight. "Dean is now a useful sparring partner, jabbing lightly, the perennial loser who helps define the consistent winner....This is not yet an anti-Kerry vote, because the Massachusetts senator has stolen Dean's antiwar resentment and adopted John Edwards's cheerful soak-the-rich pitch." Then he wanders into tin foil hit territory, "...[W]hen Kerry is belatedly lionized by Clintonites who thought a Dean debacle would pave the way for Hillary in 2008? And when Kerry's Kennedy acolytes turn ashen-faced only at the rumor that an Al Gore endorsement is imminent?"
A guest op-ed bashes a Dubya policy proposal. "The Bush administration has issued a proposal that would weaken one of the nation's most successful environmental laws. The administration's plan would change current automotive fuel economy standards and allow a loophole that would hurt the environment, auto workers and the economy."
The last guest op-ed is about elections in Iran
So one piece in support of Dubya, two bash Dubya, and one subtly jabs Dubya.