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From: LindyBill6/24/2005 1:04:01 PM
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Betsy's page - Who says that there is no liberal bias in the media? Hoystory notes the difference in how the New York Times covered Durbin's remarks with how it covered Rove's remarks.

The New York Times ran a brief -- three paragraphs -- on Sen. Richard Durbin's slander comparing American servicemen to the Nazis and Soviets buried inside the paper. When Durbin finally sort-of apologized, they ran an AP brief.

Let me make this perfectly clear -- the No. 2 ranking Democrat leader in the U.S. Senate compared American troops to the guards of the Soviet gulags and the murderers of the Nazi regime who sent millions of men, women and children to their deaths -- and the New York Times gives it a thimblefull of ink and relies heavily on wire copy.

And Tim Graham looks at the differences in the Washington Post coverage.

The Washington Post puts the Karl Rove "controversy" on the front page today. That's funny. Durbin's remarks never made the front page (June 17, A-11; June 18 in briefs, A-5; June 19, A-6; June 22 apology, A-6). This seems like Democratic party news judgment, not an independent person's news judgment. Durbin compared American soldiers to Soviet henchmen in the gulag, and that's less outrageous to the Posties than saying liberals thought therapy was the answer to terror.
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