The Note has been criticized for alleged pro-Republican bias. Left-wing journalist
Eric Boehlert writes that "it never crosses over into actually being edgy. In fact,
The Note doesn't mock
conventional wisdom so much as idolize it" and says it "is enamored of
Republican Party talking points". The Note has also been criticized for alleged anti-Republican bias. In a memo dated October 8, 2004, Mark Halperin instructed ABC employees that while both the Kerry campaign and the Bush campaign were guilty of distorting facts, they should be willing to say that distortions coming from the Bush campaign were worse when, in Halperin's estimation, they were.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26227-2004Oct12.html Another frequent criticism is that despite its blog-like style and the increasing popularity of
feed readers (especially in the political world),
The Note does not publish its content via
RSS (except for its podcast).
ABCNews.com offers a single RSS feed for all of its political content, of which
The Note is only one part. This feed does not contain the full text of
The Note, but instead only a headline and link. ==Jargon==