If you go to this LBN post of an AP story at the NYT:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2693641You find a story dated the 18th about the GOP torpedoing ethics reform.
Partisan Dispute Derails Ethics Reform
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 18, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democrats' hopes of starting off their control of the Senate with a far-reaching commitment to ethics reform received a painful jolt Wednesday, their ethics and lobbying legislation sidetracked by a dispute with Republicans.
Republicans voted against the motion to proceed because they were upset that Democrats were blocking an amendment, sponsored by Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., that would have given the president authority, with the approval of Congress, to single out individual spending items in legislation for elimination....However, if you click the link now, you get THIS story:
January 19, 2007
Ethics Bill Sails Through the Senate
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Senate, responding to voter frustration with corruption and special interest influence in Washington, on Thursday overwhelmingly approved far-reaching ethics and lobbying reform legislation.
Under the bill, passed 96-2, senators will give up gifts and free travel from lobbyists, pay more for travel on corporate jets and make themselves more accountable for the pet projects they insert into bills.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who made the bill his first initiative as head of the Senate, called it the ''most significant legislation in ethics and lobbying reform we've had in the history of this country."
Passage of the bill came a day after the measure appeared dead, the victim of a test of will between the two parties.Now imagine someone, say DU, quoting the story and placing a link to document the story. A person goes there and finds a completely different story saying the opposite of the DU posting.
Yes, I know that further into the story it recaps the issue, but the short attention-span public and the Wingnutosphere generally don't go further than the headline and first graf.