Since April of 2004, the Los Angeles Times has published over 20,000 words on the death and the controversy surrounding the death of NFL star Pat Tillman in Afghanistan. The word total includes 20 articles, editorials, and op-eds.
Meanwhile, since July of 2004, the Times has published less than 4,200 words on the story of former Clinton security advisor Sandy Berger pilfering classified documents from the National Archives. This includes 7 articles and one editorial. Two of the seven "articles" were in the notorious "In Brief" section, by the way.
This morning I couldn't help notice that it was the second day in a row that the Times had devoted generous section A coverage to the recent stories surrounding the death of hero Tillman (here and here). As tremendously sad and tragic as this episode was, does it really merit this much coverage nearly three years after the incident? (The Times has published three articles totaling over 3,000 words since last Saturday (3/24/07). All three articles were teased on page one.)
A final reminder: Earlier month, the Times published over 8,400 words in one day after the Scooter Libby verdict (here). That's one day of coverage exceeding by two times over two-and-a-half years of coverage of the Sandy 'Burglar' case!
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Dave...I am Glad you are cove
March 28, 2007 - 23:25 ET by bigtimerDave...
I am Glad you are covering the hypocrisy in the media with this...it is really old.
They will try anything daily as long as it is too make our military, President and anyone in his administration of for that matter anyone with a 'R' behind their name...look at what happened to Boehner today at some business association...getting booed and he was invited to speak.
It gets soooo old.
I truly think all of this making me tired is going to tire even the realistic dems left in the world tired and weary too.
Backfire...backlash... whatever....
Enough of the hypocrisy.
I only hear John Gibson keeping track of the Burglar fiasco and the non response from the rest of the media is what we expect. Burger/Clinton are involved up to their rears on destroying classified info on what he knew or ordered or didn't order when it came to Osama...this war and Saddam ect.
Just my opinion.
Re the Sandy Burglar story:
March 29, 2007 - 05:35 ET by motherbeltRe the Sandy Burglar story: Nothing to see here, folks; move along......
How do these people dare to call themselves a "news"paper????
They just want to throw mud h
March 29, 2007 - 01:36 ET by rbosqueThey just want to throw mud hoping something sticks to Bush, and they're using Tillman's bravery to do it. They have no shame. Guttless wonders all of them. Sandy Burgler will get a pass by the left because he's a Clintonite.
What's up MSM??? When you get tired of inventing Republican scandals, by all means investigate Burgler and William Jefferson's freezer bank!
DaveI have to agree with bigt
March 29, 2007 - 07:48 ET by mef814Dave
I have to agree with bigtimer, I am so glad that there is an organization that points out the bias that runs rampant out there. Thank you and keep up the great work. I appreciate it and read most all of the stories 6 out of 7 days. I leave Sundays for church and football / sports. PLEASE keep it up!
Your constant reader.
Dave. Bingo
March 29, 2007 - 10:19 ET by Gary HallDave. Bingo.
In the past few months, in response to unsolicited comments (those friggin crooks - type of comments) from friends and associates on subjects ranging from the Libby case (more correctly referred to as the Wilson/Plame hype scandal) and/or the Abramoff case (and that is a bad one), I quizzed a few on how they thought it compared to, or how the sentencing might compare to the Berger scandal or the James Riady scandal.
It's been only with much effort that I managed to get one or two to have any knowledge of he Berger case. It typically goes like, "Oh yea, I heard that he got in a bit of some sort of trouble - but they dropped it. What about it?" or/ on James Riady, there was one person who remembered it well, "yea, but they dropped the charges - all a right wing conspiracy." Oh, yea - largest fine ($8.6 million) ever handed out by the US Justice Department for campaign fraud, and it was Reno's Justice Deepartment.
The winner, however, was an editor in the LA Times' Washington office, who in your otherwise better than average conversation with me, while arguing that the Times does cover scandals fairly and equitably regardless of which party they involve, said: "James Riady? Never heard of him." (;~> gary