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Vice President Joe Biden had his “oops” moment Wednesday speaking in a 49er-crazed SF when he told a crowd at a city political fundraiser that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl.” - SF Chronicle, 1-18-12
Journalistic integrity: out the window?
Ann Althouse, guest blogger at Instapundit, blogs on the apparent complicity between, ahem, certain news agencies regarding the explosive (pun not intended) story about the missing weapons:
I’VE NEVER READ A CODE OF JOURNALISTIC ETHICS, but it seems to me that this much is clear: it is absolutely intolerable for a news organization to hold onto a story for the purpose of breaking it so close to an election as to prevent a fair investigation and response. This story in the L.A. Times indicates that both the New York times and CBS News/”60 Minutes” learned of the missing explosives story last Wednesday, and each competed against the other to break the story first. This competition is a safeguard that might work better than ethics to prevent us from outrageous withholding of stories for the purpose of helping a favored candidate. I hope the L.A. Times story is correct.
Please read the whole thing.
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Oh.. nothing to worry about. The whole “hundreds of tons of military grade explosives missing in Iraq” is just another example of poor planning and bungling by an incompetent Republican administration. Now they’ll just scurry around trying to deflect blame elsewhere, like they do with every other failure, foreign and domestic.
Ghost,
Your comment is inaccurate. These military grade explosives were found to have been MOVED before our troops reached the particular ammo dump.
Exactly – key word there is *moved* Dominic. I know the popular belief is that this place was likely looted, but you just can’t carry this kind of stuff out in a suitcase – moving it would require a coordinated, systematic effort. The admin suspected that just prior to the war, weapons and weapons grade material was being moved or hidden. I think all this hullabaloo surrounding this story proves that.