June 30, 2006

USA Today pulls by on the spy story…

So, lemme get this straight. They make a claim…they wait a couple weeks, for the narrative to become entrenched…then they pull back on it late of the Friday Afternoon of a long holiday weekend, when no one is paying attention.

Yeppers, that’s our modern Fourth Estate, doing their best work.

Who will guard the guardians, indeed.


Below The Beltway pinged back with Oops Never Mind

by TheAnchoress @ 7:46 pm. Filed under The Fourth Estate
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One Response to “USA Today pulls by on the spy story…”

  1. Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Oops Never Mind Says:

    [...] Of course, as The Anchoress points out, they released this clarification on the Friday of what is for many a long holiday weekend. Not exactly a time when alot of Americans will be paying attention. And, Michelle Malkin points out, they didn’t bother to put it on the front page. And Lorie Byrd notes the hypocrisy: It’s all Bellsouth’s fault for not denying it enough. How much more cowardly can they get? Bellsouth demanded a retraction a over a month ago and when the USAToday does finally print something they blame the victims of their false accusations. [...]