I am REALLY mad at FOX for not exposing this. I've stopped watching them for the last few weeks. I may not go back.
They talked about it on Fox and Friends and pointed out that the NYT has yet to retract it story. E.D. looked disgusted.
Of course, since you are not watching them, you do not know that they ARE exposing it.
OTOH, how did you miss the posts here on FR about FOX reporting?
They talked about it this morning...
FOX has been on the story all morning.
I did not get the feeling that this was the lead in most media outlets?
I have not been watching much TV at all, just because of my schedule. But I hear Fox is becoming less reliable. I wonder what gives?
On the bright side, if this story is the best the NYT can come up with, then we must be in good shape. But I assume they are holding even worse (manufactured) stuff for Thursday, Friday or the weekend - enough time for it to reach people, but not enough time for a rebuttal. Time will tell.
I agree 1000 percent.
As a news reporter myself, the Fox News lead on this story should be something like...
"The 380 tons of explosives the NYTimes on MOnday claimed are missing were not even there when US troops arrived, administration officials confirmed today.
In fact, according to NBC reporters embedded with US troops in early 2003, the weapons facility in question HAD NO EXPLOSIVES when US soldiers arrived there during the early days of the Iraqi liberation."
Instead, Fox News simply parrots the partisan mainstream media without giving all the facts ALONG WITH THE CORRECTIONS.
Frustrating aint the word for how I feel about Fox News.
Betrayed is more like it.
Take heart, like the SeeBS story, this is going to back-fire and actually help Bush. They will next try to claim that Rove planted this false story to set them up...