Posted on 10/10/2007 6:18:01 AM PDT by kristinn
This morning, while researching stories following icwhatudo's article about the Frost family and S-CHIP, I noted a curious edit in Michelle Malkin's syndicated column in the New York Post. The credit given to posters at FreeRepublic.com for breaking the story was edited from the Post's version of the column.
A check of other outlets publishing Malkin's column today showed that the Free Republic mention was not edited out by her other publishers.
The syndicated version:
After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democrat radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives on the FreeRepublic.com forum and across the Internet asked the questions the mainstream media wouldn't ask about the family's financial situation. The couple claims a combined annual income of about $45,000. Neither the Democrats nor the Baltimore Sun indicates how they verified that assertion before circulating it.
The NY Post version:
After 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered the Democratic radio address, which was penned for him by Senate staffers, conservatives across the Internet asked the questions the mainstream media wouldn't ask about the family's financial situation. The couple claims an annual income of about $45,000. Neither the Democrats nor the Baltimore Sun indicates how they verified that assertion before circulating it.
As many Freepers know, the NY Post is owned by News Corp, which also owns Fox News. Fox News recently smeared Free Republic on the O'Reilly Factor and in a report aired by Fox's Washington, D.C. affiliate.
Has the word gone out to News Corp properties to banish mentions of one of the most popular and influential political websites?
That might explain Bill O'Reilly's reticence at naming Free Republic when he alluded to FR on his radio show last month:
There is no corresponding level of this kind of vitriol on the right. Now, the worst one we came up with was some website out of California, the right-wing thing, and we had them in and they're bad but they're not that bad. I mean, I'm not justifying them. I don't like them....
This is speculation on my part, but it does seem plausible.
Perhaps Michelle Malkin should look into it.
O’Liely is bad and he is that bad.
Yikes!
A little censorship going on there.
Makes me shake my head.
They had limited space therefore had to edit the article to fit what space they had. /s
Yes, I would like to hear what Michelle has to say about this.
Good catch.
oops... more coffee, please. One too many “has” in that one.
Have you seen any coverage on Fox about this, even though ABC, CBS & CNN-HLN (even NYT today) covered it.
So, better question is - what 's happening @ Fox?
Good food for thought. Doesn’t Murdock support Hillary?
..no harm no foul, the message sent and understood by conservatives. Michele has a large following and shes read by many other bloggers on other sites
And their deliberate attempt to obscure FreeRepublic's role in exposing this story as something of a fraud is pretty much par for the course.
News Corporation, or whoever made the decision at the NYP to redact the specific source, is not doing good journalism.
After the way you were minimalized and FR was attacked by BOR, kristinn, nothing surprises me. Thanks for all that you do. Great post. Telling.
I wonder if they are even allowed to edit columnists under their contract.
Probably sounded too much like an advertisement for the FR.
If having gossips make them term a tabloid, no problem. But the writers list is impressive, than any paper in this Country.
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