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MediaNews Group head honcho Dean Singleton made headlines — even in the Denver Post, the flagship paper of his multi-media corporation — for an Message column, which presented evidence that Singleton overruled the Post‘s editorial board to endorse President George W. Bush, a friend he’d supported for years, over Senator John Kerry in that year’s election — a fact that Singleton confirmed to Rocky Mountain News media columnist Jason Salzman two years later. More recently, in 2007, Singleton was the driving force behind a front-page editorial attacking a union measure supported by Governor Bill Ritter that critics saw as a capitulation to organized labor in advance of the Democratic National Convention slated to open in Denver this August; the November 10, 2007 Message has the details.
Given these incidents, the odds of Singleton letting the Post put its stamp of approval on Obama in the run-up to the 2008 presidential vote are somewhere just south of zero. Sorry, Senator bin Laden. — Michael Roberts
