What a crock!!!
"including Knight Ridder (The Star's parent company), The Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post wire services."
These are the sources they deem CREDIBLE?
TRANSLATION: We were more than happy to keep this buried, but you whiners threatened to cancel your subscriptions. So we actually had to get off our elitist butts and say something.
Ah, so the internet and Swift Boat vets, more than one or two, aren't reliable sources, but news wires the Star subscribes to are? Like the NYTimes, the LATimes, the WashPost? Reuters, these same grouops who got together recently to decide how to manage the news from now until November? Something smells rotten. The KC Star has been caught with its pants down.
So they bury the story on a Saturday.
THink I am going to vomit.
Ok let me see if I have this right.
Major newspaper won't report information from personal websites because of questionable credibility. If anyone lacks credibility it is major newspapers such as the Boston Globe, the New York Times, or the Washington Post. Time does not allow me to go into their history of fabricating facts.
Still the very fact that a newspaper wrongly reported that a Swift Boat vet had recanted his story against Kerry shows that major newspapers are not that concerned with corroborating sources. So why isn't a personal website where at least the identity of the source can be independently confirmed by a newspaper's reader more credible than the anonymous or unnamed sources relied upon by major newspapers? Why not put the story out into the marketplace of ideas and let the truth prevail.
The reason for the decline of newspaper readership (and the majors inflate their circulation numbers) is because of lost credibility on the part of the major newspapers. I am convinced that people buy newspapers for the information from the advertisements not for the "News". Isn't that ironic?
Of course a "leak" from a Senate Democrat would be printed up, ASAP.
What is their record on reporting anything related to Bush....example..AWOL or DWI story?
LOL!! Kinda says it all, doesn't it?
They'll be waiting indefinitely. These supposedly credible sources moved, on the news wire, the lie that Elliott had retracted part of his affidavit. Did the paper sit on that? Nope. They repeated and helped spread the lie.
Wire's credibility is no good. Paper's credibility is no good.
"The Star subscribes to several news wire services — the aforementioned credible sources — including Knight Ridder (The Star's parent company), The Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and The Washington Post wire services."
Credible sources?? No wonder the print media never gets it right (but usually gets it left).
"The Star had been waiting for credible sources to move stories"
Not a crock. It says, the "credible" news wires are biased, left leaning, let's elect Kerry sources and they weren't running anything to harm Kerry.
More evidence to support your lawsuit ping.
With this lazy "see what the Times says" attitude, it won't be be many years until the "mainstream" press will be considered fringe news. The "mainstream" press is no longer credible to a large percentage of the country as is. And the presstitutes' extreme and open advocacy of Kerry isn't repairing any of the damage they've already done to themselves.
Meanwhile, the same people have no problem reporting the lies of Palestinians, feminists, eco-Nazis, the Clintons, the French.
It's the Orwellian memory hole, only much less competent and intelligent.
I am beginning to suspect that the mainstream media is fully aware that sKerry is full of sh!t on his Vietnam record, and knowing that sKerry has based his entire campaign on those 4 months, realize that to expose that record will end the current horse race for the presidency.
The media sells conflict, if the sKerry campaign implodes now, there is little for them to write about between now and November.
While I'm sure a lot of the reluctance is ideological, I suspect an at least equal portion of their reluctance is job security.
Dozens? My little search showed the following: Results 1 - 10 of about 1,390,000 for kerry +vietnam.
No wonder it's known as the Kansas City (Red) Star.