LA Times reported Bush's Iraq trip was "to see" progress with "own eyes," but didn't note he never left base
In a September 3 article on President Bush's trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, Los Angeles Times staff writer Julian E. Barnes uncritically reported Bush's statement that "[t]he secretaries and I have come here today to see with our own eyes the remarkable changes that are taking place in Anbar province." But Barnes did not note, as The Washington Post reported in a September 3 article, that "[a]lthough Bush touted the substantial political and security progress made in Anbar, he did not leave the safety of the base Monday to see those changes firsthand." Read more
CNN's Yellin did not challenge McConnell by noting GAO report also mandated by law
CNN's Jessica Yellin uncritically reported Sen. Mitch McConnell's claim that a recently released report on the Iraq war by the Government Accountability Office was "not equal" in significance to an upcoming report from the Bush administration because the administration's report "is written into law." In fact, the GAO report is required by the same law as the president's report.
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NY Times uncritically quoted Coleman's criticism of GAO Iraq report for not including August data
The New York Times reported Sen. Norm Coleman criticizing the Government Accountability Office's newly released progress report on Iraqi benchmarks for not including data regarding sectarian violence in Iraq from August. However, the Times failed to note GAO's David Walker's response to Coleman indicating that the GAO "asked [the military] for, but did not receive, the information through the end of August" and that even though military officials "were unable to give us the data through August ...we obtained their views for where the situation was through as of August 30th."Read more
Couric did not challenge Petraeus' assertion that violence in Iraq has fallen "dramatically"
Katie Couric did not challenge Gen. David Petraeus' assertion during an interview that "if you look at the country as a whole ... the number of ethno-sectarian deaths, you name it, the number of incidents has been reduced dramatically" in Iraq. Couric failed to note the conclusion reached by a recent progress report by the Government Accountability Office on Iraqi benchmarks that "[i]t is unclear whether sectarian violence in Iraq has decreased;" the report also stated that "the average number of daily attacks against civilians remained about the same over the last six months." Read more
Politico's Martin touted Giuliani's "halo of Sept. 11 and the celebrity that comes with the heroics"
In an article on Republican candidates, the Politico's Jonathan Martin claimed that the reason Rudy Giuliani has not "stopped being 'America's Mayor' " and become "just another presidential candidate" is "in part ... because he still enjoys the halo of Sept. 11 and the celebrity that comes with the heroics." However, Giuliani's performance before, during, and after 9-11 has been questioned and criticized. Read more
Wash. Post's Solomon blamed editor for deletion about GOP fundraiser
During a washingtonpost.com discussion, when John Solomon was asked why a recent article he co-wrote on fundraisers did not mention Alan B. Fabian -- Mitt Romney's recently indicted former national finance co-chairman -- he did not mention Fabian but claimed that the article included a passage on Robert Lichfield, another Romney fundraiser facing several lawsuits, but that "it was edited out," adding that this "sometimes happens ... to make room for late-breaking news." Read more
LA Times notes Dem criticism of Path to 9/11, but not its own review's
A Los Angeles Times article on the DVD release of ABC's The Path to 9/11 reported that the original miniseries "ignited a political firestorm, almost entirely from high-profile Democratic leaders who viewed its account ... as a right-wing hatchet job," overlooking factual inaccuracies in the film and sharp discrepancies between the film's account of certain events and the findings laid out in the 9-11 Commission's report, upon which ABC claimed the miniseries was based. Those inaccuracies and discrepancies were pointed out in the Times' own review of The Path to 9/11, which also noted the film's "partisan politics" and its "hopeless muddle of the line between fact and 'dramatization.' " Read more
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