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To: Txsleuth
I started looking at a LATimes story [11:04 AM PDT, July 29, 2005 Frist Breaks With Bush on Stem-Cell Research] and they had this ERRONEOUS statement attributed to Frist,
While he highlighted shortcomings in the pending bill, he said he supports it because research on embryonic stem cells is "the only type that has resulted in proven treatments for human patients."

He actually said,
"Now, to date, adult stem cell research is the only type of stem cell research that has resulted in proven treatments for human patients."

Media Bias? FRAUDcasting? Honest error? Incompetent reporter?

You decide... All I know is that when I find things like that in a "news story", it reinforces why I need to go to the source instead.

41 posted on 07/29/2005 12:59:55 PM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: AFPhys
You decide... All I know is that when I find things like that in a "news story", it reinforces why I need to go to the source instead.

He has said a number of things in support of ESC research, but yeah, the media constantly reports the administration as saying things they never said. Usually they are better about it with Congress, though they often misrepresent it, or misdescribe it without quoting it.

52 posted on 07/29/2005 1:16:02 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: AFPhys

Dang...if Brit was on his show tonight, he would probably point that out...

I do not trust the media anymore....I grew up believing (naively, is seems), that if a newspaper prints it, or a newscaster states it...it must be true, because otherwise they would be prosecuted for slander, libel, etc...

Obviously, that doesn't count for the American people...we can't sue for inaccurate information with which to make our minds up regarding things like this....

AND, the reason I fear, greatly, a Hillbilly Administration, is that the media can and does lie to get the liberal points out there and to cast doubt on any conservative...

There will be thousands of people that read the LA Slimes, that will NOT know that it was an incorrect statement, and base their opinions on that....sigh.


80 posted on 07/29/2005 1:43:44 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Germaine Broussard, "The Cookie Lady", deserves a medal!)
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To: AFPhys

Shock - the LA Times would lie?


108 posted on 07/29/2005 3:32:12 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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