WaPo throws NY Times under the bus: SIDES with BUSH on REPORTING SCANDAL!

[Julius Civitatus]

In an act of obedient servility to the Bush administration, and possibly committing one of the most outrageous acts of cowardice in recent journalistic history*, the Washington Post sided with the Bush administration on the NY Times controversy.

The WaPo adopted the mendacious GOP talking points and claimed that "terrorists were tipped off by NY Times report". Of course, the Washington Post didn't note that the administration boasted repeatedly about their efforts to track terrorist finances and their SWIFT program.

Basically, the WaPo decided to side with Bush against clarity, transparency, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press, betraying their journalistic colleges in the NY Times and their own journalistic interests and responsibilities. This is reminiscent of the Soviet press, at least. A sad day for freedom of speech in America.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290006

Wash. Post reported White House claim that terrorists were tipped off by NY Times report; didn't note administration statements on efforts to track terrorist finances

Summary: An article in The Washington Post reported the claim that the June 23 report by The New York Times on a Treasury Department program designed to monitor terrorists' international financial transactions "undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails." But the article at no point mentioned the numerous instances in which administration officials have publicly touted their efforts to track terrorist finances. Nor did it note reports that terrorists were increasingly using alternate means of transferring money to elude detection.

"Pravda on the Potomac" indeed!


* That doesn't include how the American press gave up any premise of impartiality during the run-up to Iraq.

[smartvoter]

1. Opportunism. They want to become top dog. nt

[Julius Civitatus]

4. "Access" is, apparently, everything

Very sad.








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[Supersedeas]

6. they has bought into the ethos of Bush cronyism

[chelsea0011]

2. Carville, on CNN, just did a laundry list of all the stories the NYT

reported(read, Judith Miller) that were favorable to the administration leading up to Bush's War.

[NVMojo]

3. that's fucked up!

[Julius Civitatus]

5. Yup! -- n/t

[zulchzulu]

7. WaPo falls right into the trap!

This is reverse Rovism.

The White House has had this "secret program" on their web site for the past FIVE YEARS!!!!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010924-1.html

Time to smack them hard!

[blm]

10. WaPo didn't fall for anything - they are COMPLICIT with BushInc and have

been for years.

[Julius Civitatus]

11. Exactly. They are willing participants of the Bush machine

and they've been so since the 2000 Elections.

[blm]

12. Long before that = Bobby Woodward couldn't find any wrongdoing by Bush1

in IranContra and BCCI. They worked to sabotage the CIA drugrunning story, too, along with the NYT and the LATimes.

[Julius Civitatus]

8. Kick!

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[Julius Civitatus]

9. Bump!

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