It lacks the subtlety of the original ad, it is not factually accurate and, if anything, it risks that the press coverage over it will produce a backlash against the Bush campaign. Yes, you read that correctly. They are a bunch of thieves. It's a perversion of my ad. The Times didn't get any comment from PBS omnipresence Bill Moyers, another promoter of the original LBJ ad.
Some people say it s because the media are liberal.
But I say it s just professional courtesy because I invented journalism. Also, today s Washington Times and New York Post recounted the MRC s analysis of the saturation coverage of the RAND report while the same networks didn t find any news value in Gore s secret deal with Russia.