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by Charles Carreon
10:25pm, September 14, 2005
Back on September 4th, The Washington Post ("WAPO"),
mysteriously unable to get hold of public documents of great national
importance, falsely accused Democratic Louisiana Gov. Blanco of having not
declared a state of emergency. Now, WAPO has a correction on their
website, and has deleted the original NewSpeak item. WAPO now admits that
Gov. Blanco made the declaration on August 26, but has offered no
apologies.
But it's never too late to be wrong twice, when you are
all part of one big media cesspool of disinformation. So on September
12th, Fox News presented a "timeline" that eliminated Gov. Blanco's
declaration of emergency from the record, while carefully including the
declarations of Florida and Mississippi's governors.
Given the gravity of these mis-statements, which accuse
Gov. Blanco of criminal negligence in the conduct of official duties,
causing the deaths of hundreds of Louisiana citizens, I would recommend
that she immediately file suit against WAPO and Fox for displaying
reckless disregard as to the truth of the matters asserted by their
spincasters. And be sure and sue in Baton Rouge.
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