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To: Sully- who wrote (59532)	6/4/2007 3:05:28 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I'm Envious of Your IQ What's bigger news than a foiled terror plot? Indian brick making! Best of the Web Today BY JAMES TARANTO Monday, June 4, 2007 The link below takes you to an image of yesterday's New York Times front page. It was apparently a pretty slow news day, for the lead story, "President's Push on Immigration Tests G.O.P. Base," merits only one column. Three other stories appear above the fold: - "A Legal Debate in Guantanamo on Boy Fighters" - "After Sanctions, Doctors Get Drug Company Pay" - "In a New India, an Old Industry Buoys Peasants" That last story is about brick making. Below the fold are two more stories: one about President Bush's Korea-Iraq analogy (a subject we wrote about three days earlier) and one about violin maintenance. Then there's this story: <<< Four men, including a onetime airport cargo handler and a former member of the Parliament of Guyana, were charged yesterday with plotting to blow up fuel tanks, terminal buildings and the web of fuel lines running beneath Kennedy International Airport. >>> This appeared not on the front page, but on page 37. (We're told it appeared on page 30 of the Times's national edition.) The Washington Post, by contrast, put the story on the front page. Today's Times carries a follow-up article. This went into the Metro section (albeit on the first page), and we're told the national edition put it on page A19. The headline on the Web version: "Papers Portray Plot as More Talk Than Action" ("papers" meaning government documents, not newspapers). Well of course it was more talk than action. Authorities stopped the alleged plot before it could be carried out. If terrorists had succeeded in blowing up the airport and what today's paper calls "a substantial swath of Queens," perhaps the Times would have thought the story worthy of page 1. opinionjournal.com nytimes.com nytimes.com opinionjournal.com nytimes.com washingtonpost.com nytimes.com

To: Sully- who wrote (59532)	6/4/2007 3:23:54 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

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To: Sully- who wrote (59532)	6/4/2007 3:39:00 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Uh huh. Could it be that most MSM outlets conveniently failed to adequately inform the public that Congressman William Jefferson was a stinking DEMOCRAT the few times they bothered to report the story?!?!? ** Jefferson Indicted Power Line CBS News is reporting that this afternoon, Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana will be indicted "on more than a dozen counts involving public corruption." No doubt our readers will remember that Jefferson was caught with $90,000 in cash in his freezer. I always thought that the Jefferson scandal hurt Republicans, ironically, more than Democrats.** Jefferson's malfeasance came to light at the height of the "culture of corruption" attacks on the GOP, and I don't think it sank in with most voters that Jefferson is a Democrat. Mostly, it was just seen as more confirmation that Congress is corrupt, and that hurt the party in power. Now, of course, things are different, and the mud will land where it belongs. powerlineblog.com cbsnews.com