Your Morning News 4.25.08

Posted by Jeff in Barack Obama, john mccain, New York Times, nypd, sean bell, Your Morning News, zimbabwe

Your regularly scheduled Morning News author couldn’t be here today, because he’s busy being outraged over this morning’s acquittal of the three NYPD detectives involved in the Sean Bell shooting. For those of you not up on the details of the shooting, the New York Times has an overview of multiple viewpoints from witnesses to the incident, which left the unarmed Bell dead on his wedding day.
Another day, another raid on opposition party headquarters in Zimbabwe.
Is the media giving up on Obama? HuffPo thinks so.
The Washington Post goes inside how John McCain has reversed his stances on tax policy, part of the larger trend of backtracking on everything that made him a respectable Senator.
And finally, now is not a good time to be at the New York Times metro desk - the Gray Lady is reportedly bracing for its first ever mass firing of reporters.