L.A. Times' Headline: So Slanted, They Scrubbed It, 2 Hours After Delivery
Scylla & Charybdis
By BummerDietz
It's only 8:45 a.m., and the LA Times has already scrubbed its front-page, convince-them-it's-all-bad Iraq election-bashing story from their website:
Iraqis Cast Ballots Amid Explosions and Anxiety
Suicide bombers and mortar rounds kill at least 17 people. Hours earlier, a rocket hit the U.S. Embassy, killing two Americans
BAGHDAD — As Iraqis began heading to the polls this morning in the nation’s first free election in decades, insurgents launched mortar rounds and sent suicide bombers to attack voting places across the country, killing at least 17 people.
Early turnout varied widely, with strong participation in Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq and the Shiite Muslim south. Steady streams of voters were seen in parts of Baghdad, but hundreds of polling places, mainly in Sunni cities north and west of the capital, did not open on time because of security concerns.
In western Baghdad, four suicide bombers — three wearing explosive vests and one in a car — struck polling places, killing a total of 14 people and wounding at least 23. Three people died and seven were injured when mortar fire hit a house near a polling centern in the capital’s Sadr City district....
Despite the Times' effort to get away with its 1984-esque re-writing of history, here is a pdf of the deep-sixed article, buried here.
But subscribers who received a print copy of the Sunday L.A. Times were already conditioned to assume that the Iraqi elections were flawed.
[nb: Even NPR, in its 6:00 a.m. Weekend Edition, was reporting a voter turnout of over 70%.]
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