In an act of obedient servility to the Bush administration, and possibly committing one of the most outrageous acts of cowardice in recent journalistic history*, the Washington Post sided with the Bush administration on the NY Times controversy.
The WaPo adopted the mendacious GOP talking points and claimed that
"terrorists were tipped off by NY Times report". Of course, the Washington Post didn't note that the administration boasted repeatedly about their efforts to track terrorist finances and their SWIFT program.
Basically, the WaPo decided to side with Bush against clarity, transparency, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of the Press, betraying their journalistic colleges in the NY Times and their own journalistic interests and responsibilities. This is reminiscent of the Soviet press, at least. A sad day for freedom of speech in America.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200606290006Wash. Post reported White House claim that terrorists were tipped off by NY Times report; didn't note administration statements on efforts to track terrorist financesSummary: An article in The Washington Post reported the claim that the June 23 report by The New York Times on a Treasury Department program designed to monitor terrorists' international financial transactions "undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails." But the article at no point mentioned the numerous instances in which administration officials have publicly touted their efforts to track terrorist finances. Nor did it note reports that terrorists were increasingly using alternate means of transferring money to elude detection.
"Pravda on the Potomac" indeed!
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That doesn't include how the American press gave up any premise of impartiality during the run-up to Iraq.
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