LA Times Silent On Al Gore's "Terrible Abuses" Remarks

Maybe you've heard about former Vice President Al Gore accusing the United States of "terrible abuses" that include "indiscriminately round[ing] up" Arabs and holding them in "unforgivable" conditions. Oh, yeah: The remarks were made on Sunday on foreign soil in Saudi Arabia. If you have heard about this story, it wasn't from a print edition of the Los Angeles Times, who has failed to publish even one word about the episode (as of February 14, 2005)!

Yet the Times has found room for two front-page, above-the-fold headlines in the last two days on the Cheney hunting story. Get this: The headline in today's print edition (Tuesday, February 14, 2006) is, "Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential." That's right. "Cheney Lacked $7 Hunting Credential" merited an above-the-fold headline on page A1 of the LA Times. Yet there is nothing on a former Vice President (who came awfully close to becoming President) criticizing his country on foreign soil? Yikes.

This is not the first time in this short year that the Times has been found delaying or ignoring news that reflects poorly on Democrats:

Los Angeles Times Silent on Hillary's "Plantation" Remark

LA Times Has No Room For Fine of Hillary's False Campaign Reports

[Note: Latimes.com did post an AP wire story about Gore's remarks, but this post refers to the actual print edition of the actual paper.]