WashPost Fails to Front-Page Iran's Capture of British Sailors (The WASH-Pissed BLOWS IT AGAIN!)

NewsBusters.org ^ | Ken Shepherd

[SandRat]

On Friday morning, news broke that 15 British servicemen (eights sailors and seven Royal Marines) were seized by Iran. Not the regular naval forces of that country, mind you, but the Revolutionary Guard naval corps, a wing of the military closely controlled by the country's extremist Islamic clerics.

Happening as it did one day before the UN voted on new sanctions on the nuclear power-hungry, terrorist-funding Islamist regime, you'd think the story would be worthy of front-page coverage in the largest broadsheet in Washington, D.C., right?

Wrong.The story earned page A11 real estate in the Saturday Post and a follow-up story was buried below the fold on page A12 in the March 25 edition. [continued...]

Most other stories on the front page for the Washington Post made sense, but perhaps the "Anger Grows Over Tainted Pet Food" story could have been shoved a few pages deeper into the March 24 paper.

[syriacus]

Thanks for pointing this out, SandRat.
Sneaky bunch, aren't they? And, in this case, I mean the Post; not the Iranians.

[JRochelle]

What is more important than people's pets?

A few British soldiers? Come now.


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[BIGLOOK]

you'd think the story would be worthy of front-page coverage in the largest broadsheet in Washington, D.C.

Just a small edit necessary here.

you'd think the story would be worthy of front-page coverage in the largest narrow minded broadsheet in Washington, D.C.

There....much better. Accuracy in (speaking of the) Media.

[BonnieJ]

Also getting front-page coverage (no doubt)...The firing of the 8 U.S. attorneys. AND anything to do with the "investigation" into Rove and other White House staff regarding the other non-story, the Plame "leak".