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Politics : Media Bias -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8)	9/6/2004 9:33:12 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 169

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (8)	9/6/2004 2:33:44 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 169

WHEN, OH, WHEN, WILL WE GET A DECENT PRESS CORPS? InstaPundit Today's New York Times contains an article by Kate Zernike with this passage:<font color=blue> Like the helmeted Michael Dukakis peeking out of the tank, or the first George Bush bewildered at the grocery scanner, the photo of Mr. Kerry windsurfing played into the negative stereotype his opponents are trying to play up - in this case, that of the out-of-touch, elitist Massachusetts liberal.<font color=black> Maybe she copped that from Juan Gonzales in the Daily News a couple of days earlier, who wrote: <font color=blue>"Can we ever forget the look of utter amazement on Bush, the father, the first time he found himself facing an electronic scanner at a supermarket counter 12 years ago?"<font color=black> <font size=4> Of course, as Snopes notes, the story isn't true. And it's even a famous error by The New York Times itself: Claim: During a photo opportunity at a 1988 grocers' convention, President George Bush was "amazed" at encountering supermarket scanners for the first time. Status: False. . . . One of the exhibits Bush visited was a demonstration of NCR's checkout scanning technology, an event New York Times reporter Andrew Rosenthal turned into a chiding front page story about Bush's lack of familiarity with the details of ordinary life in America. . . . Then the details of the story started to dribble out. Andrew Rosenthal of The New York Times hadn't even been present at the grocers' convention. He based his article on a two-paragraph report filed by the lone pool newspaperman allowed to cover the event, Gregg McDonald of the Houston Chronicle, who merely wrote that Bush had a "look of wonder" on his face and didn't find the event significant enough to mention in his own story. <font color=green> Moreover, Bush had good reason to express wonder: He wasn't being shown then-standard scanner technology, but a new type of scanner that could weigh groceries and read mangled and torn bar codes.<font color=black> Dana Milbank has recycled this urban myth, too. (<font color=blue>"Recall George H.W. Bush's wonderment in the 1992 campaign upon coming across a supermarket scanner."<font color=black>) <font color=green> Good thing they're not sloppy, careless, incapable of research, and prone to spout urban legends and bogus reports of events they didn't even witness, like us bloggers.<font color=black><font size=3> instapundit.com