[Paloma_55]

Its worse than that...

The Times reports it, AP picks it up and runs it. Thousands of newspapers and local news reports cover it...THEN the Times prints a retraction on page C14 and the thousands of media outlets feel no responsibility to retract since it was not their mistake.

We just had a letter to the editor in our local paper claiming that "Bush ordered the disclosure of Valerie Plame's identity".. where did he get that and where is the retraction?

[Fishtalk]

Rush has it right when he calls them the "drive-by" media.

They drive up, fire a shot, then take off with a "talk amongst yourselves" mentality.

It's really all they have left as they cling to what little credibility they have while the American public, slowly but surely get on to them.

Hey, throw it out there, the NY Times figures. Say anything and hope those idiots out in la-la land busy carrying this country on their backs hear a couple of sound bites and summarize the bites into exactly the conclusion we want them to make. As I surmise is the Times' logic

Give it time. IT's not going to last much longer.

[Naptowne]

Joe Wilson is allowed to write letters to the editor if he wants to.

[TheCornerOffice]

The Times reports it, AP picks it up and runs it. Thousands of newspapers and local news reports cover it...

Yes, you're so right. Via the endless repitition of key phrases read off the wire on local radio and TV stations (and sometimes even on a syndicated Christian radio network that I hear) the Times and AP are propagandizing the left's agenda.

How many times have you heard or seen the phrases "warrantless wiretapping" and "domestic eavesdropping," even in the local news outlets? I haven't researched it thoroughly, but I'd bet that at least one of the phrases is in every NYT article about the admin's intelligence policies. Heck, they even state "domestic eavesdropping" as if it's an accepted and proven fact in the retraction quoted in this thread.

To me, the brainwashing effect of those phrases being repeated again and again is even worse than the various fabricated facts in articles.

[cricket]

". . .where did he get that and where is the retraction?"

. . .probably listening to Imus or some other Lib talking head or just DU. . .getting all their party-line lies in a tangle>

. . .as for the retraction. . .don't even ask.