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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 4:56 pm Post subject: NYT's Attack on...'Swift Boat' Ignores...Media's Role |
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Newsbuster's Associate Editor, Noel Sheppard, joins in the fun...
| Quote: | NYT's Attack on Verb 'Swift Boat' Ignores Facts and Media's Role
By Noel Sheppard | June 30, 2008 - 11:46 ET
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The New York Times published an article Monday about the anger some Vietnam veterans feel over the vessel they used to serve on, Swift Boat, now being synonymous with "the nastiest of campaign smears."
In dredging up this issue, Times' writer Kate Zernike not only misrepresented many of the facts surrounding the claims made by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, but also completely ignored the mainstream media's role in turning the name of this patrol craft into a political pejorative.
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...what's even worse than Zernike's abuse of facts in her most recent piece was that in her seeming angst concerning the pejorative use of the term Swift Boat, she chose not to address how liberals in the media are responsible for it.
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As the piece ensued, Zernike continued the misinformation campaign that she's been on for years concerning this issue with some of the same falsehoods present in her May 28, 2006, column "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss."
A week later, investigative reporter and editor Thomas Lipscomb, who had broken a lot of the military record information of both Kerry and George W. Bush during the 2004 campaign, debunked much of Zernike's misrepresentations in a June 5, 2006, op-ed at Real Clear Politics:Kate Zernike's story on the front page of the Memorial Day Sunday New York Times, "Kerry Pressing Swift Boat Case Long After Loss," is an unfortunate reminder of the Times's embarrassingly poor coverage of Kerry in the face of the Swift Boat Veterans' for Truth charges in the 2004 election. In a truly delicious example of serendipity, Lipscomb published a blog at the Huffington Post Sunday evening just in time to bash recent media reports concerning the Swift Boat Vets:The vast majority of what is left of the press is a decidedly atypical group of Americans who don't smoke or drink and have never been in the cub scouts or brownies, much less in the military service. And they do a lousy job of even reading military records intelligently, much less reporting on them. Newsbusters - cont'd |
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