Crawling Out of the Gate
A month and a half after the London Times first broke the story of the Downing Street Memo, the Washington Post is finally addressing the story.
I think its outrageous how the story is written as though it were breaking news. Only at the very end of the story does it mention the Brits had published it a month ago.
I wonder if the Post even considered mentioning the controversy already existing here in the U.S. through bloggers, Sen. Conyers and other who have been pushing to make the American public more aware of U.S. intentions in entering the war with Iraq.
I suspect the only reason it was covered was revealed in a line near the end.
This begs the question, if Reuters reporter Steve Holland hadn’t asked President Bush about the memo, would the Washington Post be writing about it?
I think its outrageous how the story is written as though it were breaking news. Only at the very end of the story does it mention the Brits had published it a month ago.
I wonder if the Post even considered mentioning the controversy already existing here in the U.S. through bloggers, Sen. Conyers and other who have been pushing to make the American public more aware of U.S. intentions in entering the war with Iraq.
I suspect the only reason it was covered was revealed in a line near the end.
Last week, it was the subject of questions posed to Blair and Bush during the former's visit to Washington.
This begs the question, if Reuters reporter Steve Holland hadn’t asked President Bush about the memo, would the Washington Post be writing about it?
2 Comments:
We all know that the Watergate Scandal took a while to become the saga that it ended up coming and mad props to the reporter to bringing it to the forefront. The Washington Post can cause anger in some of us who may have been aware of the Memo's existence longer but then again it has to write for a majority who half the time seems to pay little to no attention around them and have to portray it as breaking news. I wouldn't have known about it beforehand since I am not a blogger just an average ciziten
By DesiPolitico, at 12:20 PM
I'm with you on the outrage at the mainstream media at taking so long to bring up the Downing St Memo. People who don't follow politics like we do probably had no idea that this memo is old, and a line at the very end of the article is unacceptable. However as desipolitico said, at least they did a story on it. At this rate, it could have continued as an underground story circulating around the blogosphere. Now it's out there and Bush hopefully can't ignore it much longer.
By NC Dem, at 6:50 PM
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