The mass media has finally found a secret worth keeping:
“A major news organization is intentionally suppressing information that could provide a clearer link between Barack Obama and (Palestinian activist) Rashid Khalidi,” said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb. ” . . . The election is one week away, and it’s unfortunate that the press so obviously favors Barack Obama that this campaign must publicly request that the Los Angeles Times do its job — make information public.”
The Times on Tuesday issued a statement about its decision not to post the tape.
“The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton. “The Times keeps its promises to sources.”
It’s reassuring to know that certain journalistic standards still obtain.
And yet, in 2006, when they received a tape with potentially embarrassing comments by Ahnuld the Governator, they had no trouble in making multiple copies available to other news outlets and full transcripts to accompany them.
Funny, that.
Publishinig secrets that damage the war effort is no problem, though.
I guess it all depends on whether or not it fits the narrative.
it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton.
Then WHY, in the name of all things holy, would you give it to a damn NEWSPAPER?!?
I call bullshit.
National security information, no problem. Highly classifed documents, no problem. Anything harmful to Republicans, no problem.
But anything that might harm a Democrat? Now that’s a problem.
Does anyone wonder why newspapers are slowly disappearing through their own a$$holes?
Yes, news rags disappearing, and being replaced by people like Cap’n Lex. We are much better off, since Lex never lands in dog crap, is only rarely late, is always informative, and always tells it like it is.
Greetings:
So, you want me to believe that you thought the Freedom of Information Act was a two-way street?
Wait until the media gets President Obama and his Congress to pass the reporter’s shield law.
Marine6 channeling Johnny Carson:
How so Very True!
11B40: You’re on the money, that bill will come up and pass as sure as the sun rises in the east……
“The Times keeps its promises to sources.”
Just not to the subscribers and the public that needs to know.
Is anyone really shocked by this?
Fairness from the major news outlets is too much to expect.
News Flash:
Obviously a multicultural crowd. From Lex’s link to Wikipedia:
The Wiki blurb deserves a careful read, and it does, in an even handed way describe the back bitting politics of the Middle East. It also points out Senator McCain’s one step removed involvement with Professor Khalidi. A more detailed description of this relationship can be found here to wit:
The snip is from Scott Horton’s convulsive ink (aka pixel) fit as he takes on Andrew McCarthy’s (National Review) campaign to link Obama to all sorts of vile non-patriotic creatures that inhabited Hyde Park during Obama’s Chicago days. But then, what can you expect when two lawyer’s decide to chew on the same bone…
Sigh, in desperate times, desperate people will do desperate things. A round of applause to Lex, who loves to spear the left leaning press, but gave us a link to Rashid Khalidi, so that we can understand what this tempest is all about.