Friday, August 13, 2004
Cambodian Kerry Media Update
NY Times and Washington Post
Instapundit notes that the NY Times and Washington Post still have not covered John Kerry's changing stories about Cambodia at all, except for a single Post editorial attacking the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth.
And what's even more amazing -- and considerably more appalling -- is that I just checked the New York Times and Washington Post sites and there's still absolutely nothing on this story there. A Kerry claim proven false, a retraction, and a retrenchment -- and absolutely no coverage at all. If we were seeing the same sort of questions raised about George W. Bush I think we'd be getting wall-to-wall coverage. It's as is they're letting their coverage be shaped by the fact that they want Kerry to win or something. Kind of makes you wonder what else they're leaving out.
LA Times
Patterico is covering the LA Times. He says they've covered this with 4 stories, headlined:
America Needs an Antidote to the Election's Partisan Venom
Top Texas Donor's Influence Far More Visible Than He Is
It's Not All Fair Game
McCain Decries Ad, Vouches for Kerry
In other words, as Peterrico says,
according to the L.A. Times, the Swift Boat Vets' ad is partisan venom, denounced by John McCain and funded by a wealthy Republican activist, concerning a topic that is not "fair game." That's all you need to know.
Television News
The Media Research Center is monitoring the major cable and network sources and reports that only Fox News has been reporting on Kerry's backtracking.
In summary, if you're only getting your news from mainstream news sources like CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, NY Times, the Washington Post or the LA Times, as a lot of people do, then you are almost completely uninformed about Kerry's shifting stories. You might even think that the net effect of this story is that it's the Republicans who are behaving badly.
But then, I guess that's what they want you to think.
