Didn't think so.
Still it's a good editorial. Shame it's only a token piece the Times can point to when charged with bias. It'll be buried under the mountains of anti-Bush propaganda the Times puts out every week.
Didn't anyone catch the ANWR error? Bumiller says that the plan is to open up 19 million acres for exploration. This is patently false. The plan is to open up just a miniscule FRACTION of that area, and the actual landscape where the exploration would occur is as flat and featureless as a sheet of white copier paper.
Funny thing - NBC amongst the major broadcast nets KNOWS this, because they sent one of their reporters up to ANWR to do a story on it. Bob Hager I think was the one tapped to do the story. They flew him in and he showed the landscape - solid, flat white as far as the eye could see in any direction. He pointed out that there were none of the towering mountains, gurgling trout-filled brooks, soaring eagles and child-pleasing daisies to be seen. Just a flat, featureless snow-covered tundra.
And NBC ran the story. BUT they ran it when no elections were imminent, the bill wasn't before Congress - in other words, when it didn't matter and everyone who saw it would soon forget it.
What NBC aired when the bill DID appear before congress was footage supplied BY the Sierra Club with towering mountains, gurgling trout-filled brooks, soaring eagles and romping elk, and fields of child-pleasing daisies out to the horizon. When it counted, NBC reverted to form.
Michael