And Managing Editor Dave McCumber. For what they didn't print.
I chose not to run the New York Times story on John McCain in Thursday's P-I, even though it was available to us on the New York Times News Service. I thought I'd take a shot at explaining why.
To me, the story had serious flaws. It did not convincingly make the case that McCain either had an affair with a lobbyist, or was improperly influenced by her. It used a raft of unnamed sources to assert that members of McCain's campaign staff -- not this campaign but his campaign eight years ago -- were concerned about the amount of time McCain was spending with the lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. They were worried about the appearance of a close bond between the two of them.
. . .
Admitting that [NYT editor Bill] Keller was in a better position to vet the sourcing and facts than I am as, basically, a reader, let's assume that every source is solid and every fact attributed in the story to an anonymous source is true. You're still dealing with a possible appearance of impropriety, eight years ago, that is certainly unproven and probably unprovable.
You'll want to read the whole thing. If you are in this area, you will want to buy a copy of the PI (assuming you don't subscribe), just to reward them.
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
Posted by Jim Miller at February 22, 2008 07:45 AM | Email ThisGoogle Larry Sinclair for another story.
One they left out when they were so concerned about McCain.
Posted by: Independent Voter on February 22, 2008 08:05 AMAt some point the news organizations are going to have to take a good look at themselves and get better balanced reporters.
Posted by: swatter on February 22, 2008 08:11 AMApparently the Times has gotten itself so invested in a 'progressive' victory in the 2008 Presidential election that no mere journalistic standards may stand in the way of bulldozing public opinion in its preferred direction.
Dan Rather will be proud.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on February 22, 2008 08:15 AMToo much he said, she said; maybe, could be; I thought, he thought. Might of, wish it had.
I was once a Thompson fan, I am now supporting McCain.
"When the leftist media is against you, you must be doing something right!"
Jayson Blair got away with bogus reporting by using 'anonymous sources' which were in reality fictional sources.
Any story that depends on anonymous sources should be considered as suspect. Maybe there should be a warning label such as "WARNING: CONTAINS ANONYMOUS SOURCES."
Posted by: russell garrard on February 22, 2008 08:47 AMThe only puzzling thing is why the NYT shot their wad so early. Given the gnat like memory of the public, this will all be forgotten in a month. They must have other stuff to spring on the public two weeks before the election.
Posted by: pbj on February 22, 2008 09:01 AMThe left is so predictable.
A story like this about Obama? One paragraph on page 12, complete with emphasis that there were no named sources for the story.
I'm smelling a lie.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 09:17 AMHere is a link.
Posted by: swatter on February 22, 2008 09:24 AMBut if I remember right, Rifle platoons are US MARINES, not Army.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 09:32 AMthanks
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 09:44 AMLooks like he screwed the whole story up, McCain has taken Sen. Obama to task once before over the distinction between Flack Jacket vs a Flak Jacket.
you seem to have forgotten that the same newspapers carried your water on the clinton whitewhater/lewinsky show trial, as well as the swift-boating of kerry.
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 09:59 AMYou seem to forget, Dinesh, that those were backed up by actual sources with actual facts. If the NYT can cite sources in the McCain story it would have at least some credibility. Otherwise the story only bolsters my opinion that the left is filled with liars.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 22, 2008 10:09 AM
Then, last night, I watched the debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on CNN. Both presented a typical liberal agenda – government-run health care, higher taxes, increased federal spending, weak border security, opposition to a victory strategy in Iraq, and no mention of the words “Islamic terrorism.” Both Obama and Clinton offer the same old failed liberal policies that would harm our nation and weaken our liberty. And those policies mirror the agenda of the New York Times.
The only Democratic presidents in the past 40 years – Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton – both weakened our military, trashed our national defense, ruined our foreign policy, and displayed weakness in the face of Islamic terrorism.
If Barack Obama gets elected, it would be like a second Jimmy Carter term – only worse! And if Hillary Clinton gets elected, it would be like a third Bill Clinton term – only worse! I'm sure both Obama and Hillary Clinton would weaken our military, cut off funds to our troops, abandon Iraq to the terrorists, raise taxes, increase spending, slow the economy, and nominate activist judges.
That’s the Carter-Clinton-Obama agenda; that’s the Jim McDermott agenda; that’s the New York Times agenda.
On Thursday, I sent the following letter to the New York Times to protest their outrageous article attacking Senator McCain.
“As today’s article (‘For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk’) underscores, arrogance and stubborn failure to learn from past scandals seems to blind the New York Times to potential bias, or perception of bias, in its political reporting.
“As a conservative Republican congressional candidate who has sometimes disagreed with Senator McCain on certain issues, I salute him for declaring that he ‘will not allow a smear campaign to distract from the issues at stake in this election.’
“Victory in Iraq, lower taxes, reduced government spending, appointing strict constructionist judges – these issues are too important for our nation to allow the McCain candidacy to be deterred by your paper’s blind and biased pursuit of a contrary agenda.”
Posted by: Steve Beren on February 22, 2008 10:09 AMIt's clearly more fun to cite anonymous sources and spread slander, which is why the Drudge Report does it so much.
When is your buddy "Kerry" going to release his records?
Were still wating.
LOL
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 10:14 AMWhen I was in Nam. If we had any big wigs show up they all wore protection along with all kinds of troops to make sure they were.
They would never want a lawmaker getting killed.
Good PR for the bad guys.
This is a NON-news maker and always has been.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 10:20 AMOh, you mean the same Drudge report that was the first to expose that Bubba had "sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewisnky" Nary 10 years ago. Unlike the NYT's sources, Drudges sources at least panned out to be true. Truth is not slander, but hey, don't let that get in the way of drinking the DNC kool aid.
Posted by: Rick D. on February 22, 2008 10:21 AMWe'll have to see if this story goes anywhere. maybe McCain will step up and defend the honor of the distinguished Representative from his home state.
Really don't think you want to go there Cato
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 10:29 AMand the swiftboating of kerry?
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 10:36 AMI see, so your arguing that because he got it right once that he is now absolved of all his un-truth's?
You will get no defense from me in favor of NY Times story on McCain. They were clearly in the wrong on this story, not to mention the prior screw-ups that have come from citing anonymous sources.
They really should have know better, but as you know scandal sells more papers than truth. Drudge is an expert in exposing scandals and therefore his site gets lots of hits/advertising regardless if the stories are true (as he can pull them at any time). In no way does this absolve the NY Times from their responsibility to report facts over fiction.
Why would McCain defend him? Republicans tend to kick crooks out of the party. Democrats tend to re-elect them.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on February 22, 2008 10:39 AMNo Dinesh...The OUTRIGHT proof that Kerry was a liar.
and a damn good chance he faked his after action reports along with his P/H.
So why doesn't he release his records.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 10:43 AMOh of course, thats why Ted Stevens is still in office.
where did you get that link to the CNN story
I got that link from the internet, perhaps you've heard of that internet thing.
This looks like a pretty small story, 1000 words at best. I think the burning of the US Embassy in Serbia will get more press coverage than this story. Republican Congressmen getting charged with crimes is pretty old hat these days, not all that newsworthy.
Swiftboating; v. The act of Democrat, Republican and apolitical war veterans telling the truth about a Democratic presidential candidate.
see also: Christmas in Cambodia; Nixon as President in 1968(oops); CIA agent's magic hat; VC the flying wonder dog; Medals tossed over the White House fence. Or was it ribbons? Or were they even my medals?
Give it up already. The only liar in the entire 'swiftboating' of John Kerry - by the way, a group of guys who were completely ignored by the popular press for more than three weeks after their allegations came out - turned out to be John F. Kerry.
Posted by: jimg on February 22, 2008 10:47 AMHmm lack of memory. Put down the joint.
How many people went to jail or convicted of a crime because of Whitewater. And what Prez fired all of the lawyers to try to stop the Whitewater??? And who was picked by the DEMs to look into whitewater. (starr)
Your whole point is so full of holes.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 10:52 AMthe point about the swiftboating is that is was a process, starting with a group of people, funded by a 527, whose story emerged over time....which required coverage....which coverage was provided by that liberal msm (of which you are so paranoid).
mccain has already admitted to infidelity once, when getting involved with his current wife....we'll see where the times story goes....hopefully we won't need ken starr and $70 million of taxpayer money to learn if mccain got a bj on the side and then lied about it.
btw, i think the whole story stinks b/c i don't care who our leaders have sex with, but certain elements of the right-wing are morality police, so this is what we get.
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 10:58 AMCNN had Eason Jordon, a self admitted Saddam Mouthpiece.
And then there is the long history of lies and falsehoods at the New York Times:
They even had the gall to question Dr Robert Goddard, mocking him the no way space flight was possible. This was in the 1920's. It wsan't until the 1960's moon landing they printed a retraction.
Here is a more comprehensive list of left wing liars in teh media:
1. Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press (2005). Lying/fabricating. In his sports column, he described alumni players at a basketball game who were not even there.
2. Stephen Ambrose, historian/author (2002). Plagiarism. He was almost a book "factory", writing eight books in five years. But that apparently came easier when parts were copied from other books, without attribution.
3. Associated Press (AP) (2005). Fell for hoax and phony photo. The AP ran a story, with a photo, about a soldier held hostage in Iraq. The photo turned out to be that of an action figure doll; there was no such soldier.
4. Mike Barnicle, Boston Globe (1998). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. Totally made up stories, including one about a black kid and a white kid with cancer. Also used quotes from George Carlin as his own. Fired from the Boston Globe.
5. Maria Bartiromo, CNBC (2007). Conflict of interest. She dated a Citicorp executive and received special treatment from him, and also owned stock in Citicorp while doing financial reporting for CNBC, including reporting on Citicorp.
6. Scott Beauchamp, The New Republic (2007). Lying. TNR hired this U.S. Army private and husband of one of its own reporters to write first-hand accounts from Iraq. One of his accounts, supposedly demonstrating the dehumanizing effects of the Iraq war on him and fellow soldiers, occurred in Kuwait before Beauchamp even entered Iraq. Other parts of his writing are likely false, and if not, constitute military crimes on his part. In fact, his anonymous writing from a war zone is likely against military rules. This story is currently unfolding.
7. Nada Behziz, The Bakersfield Californian (2005). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. Writing mostly on health issues, she plagiarized from the New York Times and AP, made up sources, and got basic facts wrong. An investigation counted 29 fabricated or plagiarized articles. She also lied on her resume. She was fired.
8. Michael Bellesiles, professor of history, author of Arming America and recipient of Columbia University's Bancroft Prize. Lying/fabricating. He made "myth shattering" claims about the history of guns in America that were based on fabricated historical records. He resigned from Emory University.
9. Joe Biden, U.S. Senator and candidate for President (1988). Plagiarism. He withdrew from the 1988 presidential race after being discovered "delivering, without attribution, passages from a speech by British Labor party leader Neil Kinnock... a serious plagiarism incident involving Biden during his law school years; the senator's boastful exaggerations of his academic record at a New Hampshire campaign event; and the discovery of other quotations in Biden's speeches pilfered from past Democratic politicians." He's still a Senator, and back in the race for 2008.
10. Jayson Blair, The New York Times (2003). Lying/fabricating. He fabricated parts or all of at least 36 stories. He, along with his bosses Gerald Boyd and Howell Raines, resigned from the NYT.
11. The Boston Globe (2004). Fake photos, fake story. The Boston Globe published pictures alleging U.S. troops raped Iraqi women. The pictures turned out to be commercially available pornography.
12. Paul Bradley Richmond Times-Dispatch (2006). Lying/fabricating. Made up his story on reactions to President Bush's speech on immigration. He fabricated interviews. He reported on an event in the first person, yet he was not even in the same town. He was fired.
13. Rick Bragg, The New York Times (2003). "Drive-by" reporting. "Bragg's defense -- that it is common for Times correspondents to slip in and out of cities to 'get the dateline' while relying on the work of stringers, researchers, interns and clerks -- has sparked more passionate disagreement than the clear-cut fraud and plagiarism committed by Blair. The issue, put starkly, is whether readers are being misled about how and where a story was reported." He resigned.
14. Fox Butterfield, New York Times (2000). Lying/fabricating and plagiarism. In 2003, a federal jury ruled that "the New York Times and one of its reporters libeled an Ohio Supreme Court justice" in an article published April 13, 2000. The jury found that the article was "not substantially true". He also "had lifted material from a story in The Boston Globe while reporting, ironically, on plagiarism by a Boston University dean".
15. Thom Calandra, Marketwatch.com (2005). Conflict of interest. He profited by selling stocks shortly after giving them positive write-ups in his newsletter. The SEC brought suit against him, which was settled.
16. Jimmy Carter, former U.S. President, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid. Lying, plagiarism, bias. His book was so full of errors, including doctored maps, that his chief collaborator, Kenneth Stein of Emory University, resigned his position with the Carter Center. Carter's book was condemned by Alan Dershowitz and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, among others.
17. CBS, Dan Rather, Mary Mapes (2004). Fell for fake documents. CBS used forged documents from a non-credible source in claiming George W. Bush received favored treatment in the Air National Guard.
18. Chris Cecil, Cartersville Daily News (2005). Plagiarism. "The associate managing editor of a small Georgia newspaper was fired for plagiarizing articles by a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Miami Herald, including copying a passage about his mother's battle with cancer. Chris Cecil, 28, was fired from The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville on Thursday after the Herald pointed out six to eight columns written since March that contained portions from work by Leonard Pitts Jr."
19. Philip Chien, Wired News (2006). Lying/fabricating. He made up sources and quotes in at least three articles. Wired withdrew the stories.
20. Ward Churchill, Chairman of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado. Lying and plagiarism. He lied about his credentials and ethnic background to get a job in the first place. His "research" was laden with fabricated evidence, plagiarism and referencing his own previous writings under pseudonyms. He is worthy of Mary McCarthy's quote about Lillian Hellman: "Every word (s)he writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." He was fired.
21. CNN, Operation Tailwind, CNN NewsStand (1998). Lying/fabricating. The televised special claimed that the U.S. military used nerve gas in a mission to kill American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War, but the story had no factual support. CNN later retracted the story.
22. CNN and Eason Jordan (2003). Admitted bias, slanting the news. Eason Jordan, CNN's news chief, admitted that CNN withheld reporting on Saddam Hussein's atrocities so as to continue getting favored treatment from Saddam.
23. Janet Cooke, Washington Post (1980-1981), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying/fabricating. Her series on "Jimmy's World" about an 8-year-old heroin addict was totally made up.
24. Katie Couric, "Katie Couric's Notebook," CBSNews.com (2007). Plagiarism. In the first place, her blog is largely written by someone else. That someone else copied material from The Wall Street Journal, without attribution.
25. The Daily Egyptian (2005). Fell for hoax. This student newspaper wrote a series about the family of a soldier in Iraq who subsequently died, except that the whole thing was made up.
26. Allan Detrich, The Toledo Blade (2007). Doctored photos. He submitted 79 photographs that were altered. "The changes Mr. Detrich made included erasing people, tree limbs, utility poles, electrical wires, electrical outlets, and other background elements from photographs. In other cases, he added elements such as tree branches and shrubbery." He resigned.
27. Stephen Dunphy, Seattle Times associate editor and business columnist (2004). Plagiarism. He used significant quotes (e.g., seven paragraphs at a time) from other sources on multiple occasions. He resigned.
28. Walter Duranty, The New York Times (1930s), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying. This man visited Stalin's Russia and wrote that nothing untoward was happening there -- no famine, etc. In fact, up to 10 million people died in the Ukraine famine. His writings matched Russian propaganda almost exactly. His Pulitzer Prize still stands.
29. Joseph Ellis, professor at Mount Holyoke College and historian/author (2001), Pulitzer Prize winner. Lying. He falsely claimed military service in Vietnam and incorporated his war "experiences" into his college courses on "The Vietnam War and American Culture". Mount Holyoke censured him and suspended him without pay for one year.
30. Jacob Epstein, novelist (1980). Plagiarism. "Jacob Epstein, responding to charges that he had plagiarized from Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers for his first novel, Wild Oats, has apologized, admitting that he had indeed copied passages and images from Mr. Amis, and from other writers, as well."
31. Diana Griego Erwin , Sacramento Bee (2005), lying/fabricating. The Bee was "unable to verify the existence of 43 people she named in her columns". She resigned.
32. Hassan Fattah, New York Times (2006). Fell for a hoax. Did a front page story about the man in one of the famous Abu Ghraib photos. But it turned out that the man who claimed to be the one in the picture, who provided details for the story, was not the one in the picture at all.
33. James Forlong, Sky News (2003). Fake story, fake footage. He presented footage from a missile test as actual combat in Iraq. He subsequently committed suicide.
34. Jay Forman, Slate (2001). Fake story. He wrote an article describing the fictitious sport of Monkey Fishing as real. Slate later published an apology and admitted details were fictitious.
35. James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, Oprah Book Club. Lying. Virtually the entire "nonfiction memoir" of his vomit-caked years as an alcoholic, drug addict, and criminal was fabricated.
36. Michael Gallagher, The Cincinnati Enquirer (1998). Information theft. "Mike Gallagher had illegally tapped into Chiquita's voice mail system and used information he obtained as a result in stories questioning Chiquita's business practices in Latin America." The paper agreed to pay Chiquita Brands International over $10 million and run an apology on the front page three times.
37. Stephen Glass, The New Republic (1998). Lying. "Glass, a 25-year-old rising star at The New Republic, wrote dozens of high-profile articles for a number of national publications in which he made things up...he made up people, places and events. He made up organizations and quotations. Sometimes, he made up entire articles. And to back it all up, he created fake notes, fake voicemails, fake faxes, even a fake Web site - whatever it took to deceive his editors, not to mention hundreds of thousands of readers." He was fired.
38. Jacqueline Gonzalez, San Antonio Express News (2007). Plagiarism. She admitted "she used, without attribution, information from a Web site for a Christmas Day column. Later research uncovered further examples of plagiarism in two other columns."
39. Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian/author (2002). Plagiarism. Large portions of her book, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, were lifted from multiple other sources without attribution. She took a leave of absence from PBS.
40. Adnan Hajj, Reuters (2006). Doctored photos. He doctored dozens of pictures of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel conflict. Reuters later withdrew all 920 of his photos from sale.
41. Alex Haley (1977) , Pulitzer Prize winning author of Roots. Plagiarism. He settled a lawsuit for $650,000, admitting that large passages of Roots were copied from the book The African by Harold Courlander.
42. Mark Halperin, ABC News (2004). Admitted bias. He wrote a memo to news staff telling them to hold George Bush to a stricter standard than John Kerry: "Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and makes] mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that."
43. Jack Hitt, New York Times (2006). Lying, or at least really sloppy research. He wrote a story about a woman in El Salvador who was sentenced to prison for having an abortion when she was 18 weeks pregnant. It turned out that "her child was carried to term, was born alive and died in its first minutes of life." In short, her crime was infanticide, not abortion.
44. Houston Chronicle, Light Rail Controversy (2002). Admitted bias. An internal memo outlined how the paper would promote the light rail project in Houston and do research into Tom Delay and other light rail opponents. That would be creating the news rather than reporting it.
45. Eason Jordan, CNN (2005). False accusations. He accused U.S. forces in Iraq of deliberately targeting and killing journalists. He apologized and resigned.
46. Jack Kelley , USA Today (2004). Lying. USA Today concluded of "the star" of its news staff: "Jack Kelley's dishonest reporting dates back at least as far as 1991."
47. Jesse MacBeth, anti-war star (2006). Lying/fabricating. "Jesse MacBeth stoked opposition to the Iraq war in 2006 when he spoke out about atrocities he committed as a U.S. Army Ranger serving as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. MacBeth, 23, of Tacoma, claimed to have killed more than 200 people, many at close range, some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet. Trouble is, none of MacBeth's claims was true."
48. Rigoberta Menchu, author of I, Rigoberta (1983), Nobel Peace Prize winner (1992). Lying/fabricating. She claimed her autobiographical book "is the story of all poor Guatemalans. My personal experience is the reality of a whole people." However, "Menchú augmented her own story with that of the Indians of Guatemala generally, reporting experiences she either did not have or could not have witnessed and misrepresenting the violent history of her area of Guatemala to support her own cause as a Guatemalan guerrilla organizer."
49. Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher (2006). Lying. He admitted to fabricating a story in his younger reporting days.
50. NBC, Waiting to Explode segment on Dateline NBC (1992). Faking evidence and footage. NBC demonstrated the explosive danger of GM trucks' gas tanks by showing one actually explode in what appeared to be normal circumstances. "NBC said the truck's gas tank had ruptured, yet an X ray showed it hadn't; NBC consultants set off explosive miniature rockets beneath the truck split seconds before the crash -- yet no one told the viewers."
51. Christopher Newton, Associated Press (2002). Lying. "The Associated Press accused Washington bureau reporter Christopher Newton of journalistic fraud last month and sacked him. The AP alleges that in at least 40 of the many hundred stories Newton wrote for the wire service between Jan. 13, 2000, and Sept. 8, 2002, Newton quoted sources who appear not to exist."
52. NPR, CNN and others on the "Jenin massacre" (2002). CNN reported: "There's almost a massacre now taking place in Jenin. Helicopter gun ships are throwing missiles at one square kilometer packed with almost 15,000 people in a refugee camp . . . This is a war crime, clear war crime." However, the actual "death toll was 56 Palestinians, the majority of them combatants, and 23 Israeli soldiers."
53. Reuters, Lebanon coverage (2006). Fake/staged photos. A burning tire dump as the scene of an Israeli bombing, Photoshopped bomb smoke, etc. during the Lebanon-Israel conflict.
54. Reuters Russia's North Pole coverage (2007). More fake photos/footage. "Reuters has been forced to admit that footage it released last week purportedly showing Russian submersibles on the seabed of the North Pole actually came from the movie Titanic." The mistake was caught by a 13-year-old Finnish boy.
55. Tim Ryan, Honolulu Star-Bulletin (2006). Plagiarism. This entertainment reporter wrote multiple articles with words lifted from other sources without attribution. He was fired.
56. Eric Slater, Los Angeles Times (2005). Inaccuracy and plagiarism. "The LA Times ran a lengthy Editor's Note that outlines the inaccuracies, 'substandard' reporting methods and unverifiable quotes in two stories by reporter Eric Slater." He was fired.
57. Patricia Smith, Boston Globe (1998), Pulitzer Prize finalist. Lying/fabricating "An award-winning metro columnist for The Boston Globe resigned Thursday after being asked to leave by the paper's editor, who said she admitted to fabricating people and quotes in four columns this year." "I attributed quotes to people who didn't exist."
58. Barbara Stewart, Boston Globe (2005). Lying/fabricating. "The Boston Globe acknowledged yesterday publishing a partially fabricated story by a freelance reporter about a Canadian seal hunt that had not taken place."
59. Nina Totenberg, The National Observer (1972). Plagiarism. She was fired by The National Observer for plagiarism. "Totenberg had allegedly lifted several paragraphs from a Washington Post story and dropped them into a piece she was writing about former House Speaker Tip O'Neill for the now-defunct National Observer." She is currently legal correspondent for NPR.
60. Jim Van Vliet, Sacramento Bee (2005). Misrepresentation and plagiarism. "The reporter watched the game on television at a location away from the stadium. He filed his story without telling editors at The Bee his true location, leaving the impression he covered the game from the ballpark. In addition, it was discovered later that the story included quotes from other media outlets that were unattributed and old, made to reporters on a previous occasion before the day of the game." He no longer works there.
61. Brian Walski, The Los Angeles Times (2003). Doctored photos. The LA Times admitted that it "published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy."
62. Bob Wisehart, Sacramento Bee (1994). Plagiarism. "Sacramento Bee editor Gregory Favre fired TV columnist Bob Wisehart the second time he plagiarized. For the first offense, Wisehart got a five-month suspension even though his plagiarism involved hundreds of words taken from Stephen King's book Danse Macabre for a television column about horror shows."
http://www.americaoutloud.org/forum/showthread.php?p=16086
I'll take the Keating 5 scandal over this one anyday......Repeat after me:
Barack-back Mountain !!
Posted by: Rick D. on February 22, 2008 11:07 AM"Just hours after the Times' story was posted, the McCain campaign issued a point-by-point response that depicted the letters as routine correspondence handled by his staff--and insisted that McCain had never even spoken with anybody from Paxson or Alcalde & Fay about the matter. "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," the campaign said in a statement emailed to reporters.
But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself. "I was contacted by Mr. Paxson on this issue," McCain said in the September 25, 2002 deposition obtained by Newsweek. "He wanted their approval very bad for purposes of his business. I believe that Mr. Paxson had a legitimate complaint."
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 11:07 AMYou put forth the proposition that teh New York Times is NOT a liberal biased newspaper.
But what does the New York Times say when asked "":
Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?
"OF course it is."
"And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed."
SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
C'mon liberals, spin that one! I DARE YOU!!!
Posted by: pbj on February 22, 2008 11:12 AM"Start with the editorial page, so thoroughly saturated in liberal theology that when it occasionally strays from that point of view the shocked yelps from the left overwhelm even the ceaseless rumble of disapproval from the right."
SOURCE: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/25/weekinreview/25bott.html?ei=5088&en=452926dcb11511a3&ex=1248667200&pagewanted=all&position=
Posted by: pbj on February 22, 2008 11:14 AMi recall that neither bush nor kerry made certain records available in 2004. we still don't know where bush was when he was awol from his base in alabama, eh? didn't he say he was at the dentist?
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 11:15 AMAgain your story is so full of holes.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 11:17 AMMany if not most papers throughout the country republish from the NYT "news" service. That is how most of the liberal bias is propagated.
So go ahead and tell us all that NYT is fair and balnaced all you want until you are blue in the face. But even the NYT admists they are "thoroughly saturated in liberal theology".
Posted by: pbj on February 22, 2008 11:20 AMBush had all of his records put forth...Even the one that Rather faked.
I see you won't asnwer the Kerry question. As I figured.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 11:22 AMRick D, that's a really funny story. Does it have any evidence besides the word of some broke down junkie? Heck, I'll even take the word of an "anonymous" limo driver who may have picked them up. Even the conservatives posters on the article you linked to aren't buying that story.
Yes or no. Do you agree that the NYT is liberal biased?
I posted the source of my facts on the NYT.
Posted by: pbj on February 22, 2008 11:29 AMyou are wrong about bush's records.
as for kerry, he lost, so its moot, as opposed to the torturer in chief.
face it, mccain is a weak, undesirable candidate, and your party will have to rally around him (much like the dems were forced to accept kerry, dukakis, mondale, etc.). the politics of distraction won't work.
bush beat mccain in 2000--presumably reflecting the republican party's judgement that bush was better than mccain. well, we all know how hard bush sucks, so what does that say of mccain?
Posted by: dinesh on February 22, 2008 11:31 AMBelow link regarding the ABC News factcheck verification:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/from-the-fact-3.html
Posted by: tc on February 22, 2008 11:39 AMNow you want to drop it. Typical lib.
On Bush's mil records. Every news services has gone over them to find something wrong, yeah even Rather's faked one. So don't say he didn't.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/2004-02-14-bush-docs.htm
Read and weep
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 11:54 AMTo be fair, pbj I don't think I ever did that. :)
Posted by: Duffman on February 22, 2008 11:56 AMThere are a lot more details missing in this.
Let's give the pajamadeen a few days to really fact check. But, if true and without extenuating circumstances, then it is disturbing our guys are still not getting supplies.
Posted by: swatter on February 22, 2008 12:07 PMThey still can't verify this story. But did you notice, The ammo problems the LT not Capt talked about was state side NOT in combat.
Posted by: Army Medic/Vet on February 22, 2008 12:07 PMIn this age of "cut and paste" it is easy to see how false or distorted stories propagate without informed, or thoughtful eyes testing each "fact" before they simply pass it on...
Good job checking each of these before you posted them.
Posted by: BA on February 22, 2008 12:08 PM