Saturday, May 01, 2004
Hitch Update: Where's the Beef, Washington Times?
A reader writes in to point out that the the memo to which Hitchens refers was originally leaked to Washington Times reporters Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough.
Which is what explains why we haven't seen it show up in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the Chicago Tribune.
If the Washington Times gets it first, the other outlets would rather bury the story than give them credit.
I can understand wanting to maintain a little distance from it if they don't have the memo themselves Which is a good reason for the Washington Times to publish duplicates of the memo itself, so that other outlets can assess the authenticity of the memo for themselves. Then they'd have no excuse--they'd either have to run it, and change the political landscape of the war, or they'd have to expose it as a fake.
Either way, the public is served a lot better than it is now.
Splash, out
Jason
Which is what explains why we haven't seen it show up in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, CNN, and the Chicago Tribune.
If the Washington Times gets it first, the other outlets would rather bury the story than give them credit.
I can understand wanting to maintain a little distance from it if they don't have the memo themselves Which is a good reason for the Washington Times to publish duplicates of the memo itself, so that other outlets can assess the authenticity of the memo for themselves. Then they'd have no excuse--they'd either have to run it, and change the political landscape of the war, or they'd have to expose it as a fake.
Either way, the public is served a lot better than it is now.
Splash, out
Jason
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