Alaska station says Breitbart Web site audio attack is bogus

Washington Post ^ | 10/31/10 | Greg Sargent

[Nachum]

Is another Andrew Breitbart Web site production about to be unmasked as bogus? Breitbart's Big Journalism site is making an incendiary accusation: That reporters at the Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA were caught conspiring to damage Tea Party Senate candidate Joe Miller. Big Journalism posted a snippet of audio allegedly showing this: It features KTVA reporters talking among themselves while -- unbeknownst to them -- they were accidentally being recorded on the voicemail of Miller's campaign manager. But it's unclear from the recording precisely what, if anything, was being plotted.

[Qbert]

A great point from Legal Insurrection regarding this absurd WaPo article:

“Greg Sargent... misleadingly titles his blog post “Alaska station says Breitbart Web site audio attack is bogus”, but if you actually read his post, the quote from the Alaska station actually verifies that the recording was real.  So why the title?

Sargent goes on to suggest that the audio recording may be incomplete, but then acknowledges in an update (without updating the post title) that:
It’s possible that the audio Big Journalism posted is all that was recorded on the cell phone. But even if this were the case, running with this audio alone, if that was all that existed, seems pretty questionable.

So what else should they have run with, other than the complete audio recording?

That recording is pretty clear on its face that the reporters were hoping to find a “registered sex offender” in the crowd or capture a scuffle about which they could tweet and report...”

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/10/greg-sargent-demands-but-doesnt-give.html

[DouglasKC]

Washington Post trying to obfuscate the issue and provide damage control for corrupt media. The story didn’t originate with Breitbart. It came from the phone of a Miller staffer with a followup confirmation that the reporter had left the voicemail inadvertently.

[Luke21]

Gee. The sniveling liars at the Wapo are already involved in damage control? Already?

[Nachum]

The WaPo is only doing some damage control. They don’t even have to win the argument, they only have to sow a seed of doubt until after election day.

[DouglasKC]

If this is a fake, then Andrew can kiss his ABC gig buh-bye

This has nothing to do with Breitbart. Don't fall for the disinformation. The "media" was caught red handed plotting to create bad news for Miller. Red handed.