Distorted U.S. News Coverage.

Earlier this week, we mentioned in one of our postings the lack of coverage of the British Memo scandal in the US media. Well, one of our favorite blogs, Political Animal, not only shows that the silence continues but he also interestingly compares that fact to the overraction about the Newsweek story. Here it is:

The Newsweek retraction story is on Page 1 of the New York Times, Page 1 of the LA Times, and Page 3 of the Washington Post. That's pretty strong coverage for a story about a newsmagazine retracting a small error in a short piece from two weeks ago.

And how did these same news organs respond three weeks ago to a leaked British memo making it clear that President Bush had already committed himself to war with Iraq by the summer of 2002 and was actively "fixing" intelligence and facts to support that decision? It eventually ran on Page 3 in the LA Times, Page 18 in the Post, and nowhere at all in the New York Times aside from a buried Page 9 piece that treated it as strictly a British election issue.

So whenever the Conservatives tell you that the press is bias they are undoubtedly right. No wonder why so many people in the U.S. can be virtually ignorant of facts known by the rest of us.

UPDATE:

In case, you don't think the 'Newsweek story' has been blown out of proportion, here's a good article by Molly Ivins who makes some good arguments and concludes:

Seventeen people have died in these riots. They didn’t die because of anything Newsweek did — the riots were caused by what our government has done.