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3 WEEKS AND COUNTING - New York Slimes and Others Continue to Ignore Enron-Lite at Air America
The Media Research Center ^ | August 15, 2005 | Brent Bozell

Posted on 08/16/2005 11:22:26 AM PDT by MikeA

NEW YORK TIMES TRIES TO IGNORE AIR AMERICA’S FINANCIAL SCANDAL – BURIES TINY STORY IN REGIONAL EDITION

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Media Research Center President Brent Bozell assailed the New York Times today for a three-week blackout of the mounting Air America scandal, a national issue involving a national radio network. The Times, which splashed Air America’s Al Franken on the cover of its magazine when the network launched last year, has buried coverage of the liberal radio network’s receiving questionable loans (almost $900,000) from financially struggling children’s charities – on whose boards the former chairman of Air America sat. With this scandal, the Times has only run a small story with a misleading headline published in its regional edition.

“Once again the New York Times is invoking a double-standard. Air America is a national network but the Times has not given it national coverage – the same coverage it gave the launch of the liberal radio network last year,” Bozell said. “This is now three weeks and counting, when will the Times report the Air America scandal to all of America?”

Clay Waters, editor of the Media Research Center’s www.TimesWatch.org Web site, noted the Times was quick to pile on conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh when he announced his addiction to prescription painkillers on October 10, 2003.

“The story made the front page of the New York Times the very next day. And the paper followed up with several stories referencing Limbaugh's addiction,” Waters said. Yet for Air America, the New York Times isn’t saying much.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: airamerica; liberalmedia; liberaltalkradio; mrc; newsblackout; nyt
Funny the media screamed headlines and broadcast stories for weeks over the VICTIMLESS act of Limbaugh being addicted to pain killers and the supposed doctor shopping which harmed no one but himself. But Al Franken and the other criminals at Air America rob a children's charity and the media ignores it. I guess they're too busy licking their wounds over their slanders against Delay and Rove going exactly nowhere...or too busy trying to look for new smears they can throw against them hoping something will stick.
1 posted on 08/16/2005 11:22:32 AM PDT by MikeA
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assailed the New York Times today for a three-week blackout of the mounting Air America scandal, a national issue involving a national radio network

Yet, the Slimes ran story after story prior to the start of Err America and about how it's time had come. How wonderful it was going to be, etc.

Yep, no such thing as media bias.

2 posted on 08/16/2005 11:30:33 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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Regarding the Air America scandal, had this to say: "........................................................."

BREAKING...

3 posted on 08/16/2005 11:36:47 AM PDT by pabianice
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4 posted on 08/16/2005 11:37:15 AM PDT by ocr1
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To: MikeA; All
Air America Scandal-- Click the picture-


5 posted on 08/16/2005 11:45:03 AM PDT by backhoe
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This article is NOT true. The New York Slimes DID run an article on the Air America swindle, just three days ago. However, it is true that the article was short, sloppy, and it appeared on page D 46 (IIRC).

So the Times showed its biased colors once again. It ran the story late. It left out facts which would have demonstrated that Al Franken is lying through his teeth. It repeated the assertion that Air America had "placed the [missing] money in escrow," without noting that an organization which is late in making payroll for its employees is unlikely to have $875,000 in an escrow account.

And last but not least, the Times ran the story next to the pet obituaries. Yeah, they covered it.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "The 9/11 9/11 Commission" (Not a Misprint)

6 posted on 08/16/2005 11:56:29 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Will President Bush's SECOND appointment obey the Constitution? I give 95-5 odds on yes.)
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