pudge's Journal: CNN and Palin Smears

About a half hour ago I went to this story on CNN, via a link from the CNN.com home page, which reads that Palin was being criticized for "cutting programs for people with disabilities -- a group she's vowed to defend."

I go to the story itself, and this claim is repeated in the bullet points at the top of the story, but there's no detail: just one line in the penultimate paragraph saying she was criticized for it. I figured a claim like this, that CNN deems important enough to highlight on their home page, would be backed up by some sort of detail. There was none.

As of a few minutes ago, the claim is still on the CNN.com home page, but is gone from the article itself.

Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.

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[smittyoneeach]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2008/09/09/cnn-contradicts-factcheck-org-their-own-reporting-palin [newsbusters.org]
Not to get too excited about the blatantly biased NewsBusters, mind you, but CNN and the rest of the MSM seem to be having something of a shared nervous breakdown.
I am moved to pity, somwhere just below the left kneekap.

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[Bill Dog]

Bloggers may actually replace mainstream news orgs -- I'm to the point where, for example, when I read a comment on Slashdot that asserts something as factual, I prefer an attribution, but if the person seems like a reasonable average Joe, I give him the benefit of the doubt. But now when I read a CNN or AP article, on a political topic, especially during an election season, I find myself thinking that I need source(s) cited or I'm not necessarily going to believe this or that sentence. Just look at how oft

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[smittyoneeach]

Oh, they're just in rant mode because McCain is demonstrating early that he cares not fig #1 for their input.