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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 11:34 pm Post subject: For The Record: Top 10 NYT Distortions |
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From "TimesWatch.org"...
| Quote: | #8 - Tarring "Unsubstantiated" Swift Boats Veterans, Plugging False Bush "AWOL" Smear
Perhaps no issue revealed as much about the Times' double standard as did its treatment of Bush and Kerry's respective Vietnam War campaign controversies. Throughout 2004, the Times faithfully pursued Democratic charges that Bush failed to fulfill his National Guard obligations during the Vietnam War, yet dismissed as partisan and "unsubstantiated" the allegations from the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, sticking the warning label of "unsubstantiated" on the group's allegations no less than 20 times. By contrast, not once did the Times describe even the wildest "Bush-was-AWOL" charges as "unsubstantiated."
Here's a sample of the stark difference in coverage:
"Democratic Chief Says 'AWOL' Bush Will Be an Issue After a Nominee Emerges"
-- Headline over a Feb. 2 story by Katharine Seelye.
"In a rare broadcast interview that he agreed to do as his poll numbers were falling and Democrats were increasingly hopeful of ousting him in November, Mr. Bush said on 'Meet the Press' that he was far from alone in judging Saddam Hussein to be a threat. He rebutted accusations that he did not complete all of his duties while in the National Guard in 1972."
-- Richard Stevenson, Feb. 9.
"Until this month, the Republican defense of Mr. Bush's military record, sticking to the bare essentials, had successfully neutralized a succession of newspaper articles that raised questions about Mr. Bush's service. But now, with Iraq casualties mounting, with angry Democrats coalescing behind a decorated Vietnam veteran and with credibility questions dogging Mr. Bush, the broad-brush defense has been abandoned."
-- David Barstow , Feb. 15.
"Republicans had expected Mr. Bush to enter the general election campaign benefiting from his leadership in the war on terrorism. But the continued deaths of American troops in Iraq, the apparent absence of stockpiles of banned weapons there and the questions about Mr. Bush's service in the Guard in the Vietnam era have all eaten into his support, left the White House scrambling and emboldened Democrats."
-- Richard Stevenson , Feb. 18.
Yet the Times dismissed as "unsubstantiated" allegations by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth:
"But on close examination, the accounts of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth prove to be riddled with inconsistencies. In many cases, material offered as proof by these veterans is undercut by official Navy records and the men's own statements."
-- Jim Rutenberg and Kate Zernike, Aug. 20.
"The national counsel for President Bush's re-election campaign resigned on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he acknowledged that he had provided legal advice to a veterans group that has leveled unsubstantiated attacks on Senator John Kerry's Vietnam War record in a book and on the air."
-- Elisabeth Bumiller, Aug. 26.
"[Democrats] argue that the Bush family has long resorted to brutal political tactics when cornered and is known for its parallel campaign tracks, one on the high road, and one on what Democrats would call the low road. Those accusations have grown particularly strong in the last month, in which Mr. Kerry has been the subject of unsubstantiated charges by veterans about his Vietnam combat medals."
-- Adam Nagourney , Sept. 1.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:02 pm Post subject: thinking, thinking, thinking, |
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Just a min. they say they are a ?? newspaper??? or a "nonews paper"?
saying the same thing for 35 years is NOT NEWS.
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