Received voice-mail response from DMN editor Mark Edgar (sp?) about yesterday’s claim that The News edited references to al-Qaeda from WashPo’s p. 12A Benghazi probe story. The piece appeared to contradict a recent NYT story on The News’ front-page which claimed al-Qaeda had nothing to do with the attack.Edgar: “There was only so much room we had for [The WashPo] story. … The references to al-Qaeda were 15 or 16 paragraphs into it and it was just a matter of editing by inverted pyramid. We didn’t have room to run the whole story.”
You decide, folks. But recall, The News had plenty o’ “room” on its front page for The Times’ piece — which backed Dear Leader’s and Susan Rice’s specious accounts.
(To make good, I’ll say it’s no coincidence that, today, The News runs “AL-QAEDA’S RESURGENCE” across the top of its front page. Not about Benghazi, and Dear Leader’s not mentioned, but I’ll take it.)
NOT NEWS IN TODAY’S DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS
*Poverty level under Obama breaks 50-year record
(Lotsa data you’ll not see in The News!)
*Time magazine blamed ‘polar vortex’ for 1974 ‘global cooling’
(Simply not context you need to know)
*Denver attacks may be ‘knockout’ related
(A National round-up story, perhaps? No. … BTW: race is no issue for Eric Holder here.)
OP-ED YOU WON’T SEE IN THE DALLAS MORNING DAILY KOS