“Don’t believe everything you read??” It was on frickin’ Fox News Sunday, or whatever their Sunday morning windbag show is called. Transcripts are available. And sure, Monday noon isn’t exactly prime time, but does that mean a reporter can’t get out of bed that early in order to cover the frickin’ story??
And it’s certainly not Josh Marshall’s impression that the Speaker was “curiously inaccessible during this convention”:
This was posted Tuesday at 5:30pm.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but over the past couple of weeks, I’ve started to consider cancelling my Washington Post subscription. Excepting times when I was living too far from D.C., in pre-Web days, to get the WaPo regularly, I’ve been reading the Post nearly every morning for over forty years.
They do have some very good reporting, some days. (Their story in May of last year on the failed WMD hunt was a masterpiece.) But too many days, it’s like Krugman says: if the Dems claimed the Earth was round, and the Bush Administration said it was flat, the header would be “Shape of Earth: Views Differ”, ascribing equal credibility to both sides. And then there are the low-hanging fruits of stories that they miss altogether, like this Hastert story, or Bush’s oft-repeated claim that the rich don’t pay taxes.
And to think it was once the paper that broke the Watergate story.
Well, you know how it is, these things ebb and flow. The Press realized that they went overboard during the Clinton era and focused too much on what the President was doing, so they’re showing “restraint” in presidential coverage so as not to embarrass the office again.
Of course, once Kerry wins, they’ll all realize that they were WAY too easy on Bush, and will vow not to be caught asleep at the switch again, and so will pubicize and magnify every little fart President Kerry emits.