Posted by
Scott Keys on Monday, January 01, 2007 2:38:47 PM
Here's a perfect example of how the MSM insidiously manipulates public opinion. On 12/28 the AP published an article covering an"embargoed interview" with President Ford headlined "
Ford highly critical of Bush, Cheney and Iraq invasion." The clear implication of the headline was that Ford was opposed to the Iraq war in general and, in response, there sits a letter to the editor in today's LA Daily News wondering why we weren't told of Ford's "strong opposition to the war in Iraq." Whoa there, buddy!! Go back and you can read in the body of the original article that Ford was very specifically critical of basing the invasion on the presence of WMD, not of the decision to invade. People have a hard enough time understanding the pith of most of what they read and hear, in my opinion, without being delibarately misled by supposedly neutral news bureaus. Only the latest in a series of purposeful mislabelings. Can't trust the AP anymore either.
11:48 AM
Update: I don't think this is a partisan thing and ought to be viewed by everyone as a disturbing new feature of news reporting no matter what your opinion on the issue in question. We just want them to be honest, right?