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AIRBRUSH AWARD: Drudge links to a story on the BBC, and quotes from it:
WASH POST REPORTER: ‘Nobody would be too shocked if Kerry lied about an affair. Even if someone came to us with photographs we still wouldn’t run it’…
But that quote—damning to the Post—is removed. However, as of the time of this post, it’s still in the link that Google uses to link to the story. And here’s a screen capture, for when it scrolls off.
The BBC has quite a checkered recent history of airbrushing its stories with no warning. Looks like it’s happened once again.
Maybe it’s just the BBC following the glass houses rule…
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS’S SCOTT LINDLAW is at it again. After the NASCAR debacle, which the Columbia Journalism Review blog called a “cheap shot” and a “stretch,” you’d think he’d have more sense than to go out of his way to fill a purported news story with gratuitous Bush-bashing. Obviously, he doesn’t.
It is amazing how he manages to both bring up Bush’s guard service yet again and work in a Kerry quote on how he (Kerry) will support the military better than Bush. The online story had 5 paragraphs of guard service and 4 paragraphs of Kerry propaganda out of 23 total paragraphs. So 40% of the article about the President visiting a military base was “Bush bad/Kerry Good” and had nothing to do with the visit itself.
Here we see why the press overwhelming supported the recent campaign finance reform laws - if done properly, the press could continue to campaign like this while the rest of us would be silenced.
P.S. The source is has a number of other indicting details about this - it’s worth clicking through.
