July 21, 2003

Media fairness at work

This is the lead paragraph in an AP "news" article about the trumped-up crisis over the President's case for war in Iraq. The White House has mostly bungled this from a communications POV, but is this lead-off an example of fair and balanced journalism? Hardly.

The White House defense of President Bush's now-disavowed claim that Iraq was seeking uranium in Africa has evolved over the last two weeks: blame others, stonewall, bury questions in irrelevant information and, above all, hope it will go away. So far, none has worked.

via AP and ABC News

Posted by Alan at July 21, 2003 09:54 PM