Media Matters has final say on pro-Beauprez spin

I wrote several times about how the media seemed determined to give Bob Beauprez the benefit of the doubt. Now that the election is over, Media Matters takes a look at how some news outlets repeated Beauprez's last, desperate claim that he was closing in on Bill Ritter:

In the days leading up to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter's landslide election victory, three news outlets - the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Associated Press, and KDVR Fox 31 - each echoed Republican candidate Bob Beauprez's assertion that recent polling showed he was "closing the gap" on Ritter... [T]he reports cited no polls to support their claims. These reports also appeared to ignore the most recent polls, some of which showed Ritter's lead expanding within those polls' margins of error.