"Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer"

This is just laugh-out-loud funny. The headline of an AP report on this matter is "Accused spy is cousin of Bush staffer." Now, of course, the way this works is many people will just see the headline, or their view of this matter will be greatly influenced by it. They won't bother to note that all of her public employers have been Democrats and she's been active in the "peace" movement.

And, note that this headline is direct from the AP. Only the website for the TV station KGW changed the headline (to 'Woman accused in spy case worked as journalist, congressional aide').

The papers that ran this story with the AP headline are the following. I've tried to determine the correct contact person for each paper.

AJC (insideajc@ajc.com)

phillyburbs.com (ksmith@phillyburbs.com)

al Guardian (editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk)

Newsday (foreign@newsday.com)

Mlive.com (form)

The Ledger (lenore.devore@theledger.com)

Wilmington Morning Star (tim.griggs@starnewsonline.com)

AL Times Daily (mike.goens@timesdaily.com)

Worcester [MA] Telegram (llamson@telegram.com)

Tuscaloosa News (danny.dejarnette@tuscaloosanews.com)

Contact them by clicking on or copying this link. Bear in mind that the article's author, Matthew Daly, may or may not have written the headline. And, bear in mind that the papers that ran it as-is may have some kind of an automated system or something.

(Via Slings and Arrows)

ThePeaceMovement · Thu, 03/11/2004 - 20:26 · · Importance: 1