The least they could do is give eggs...
WaPo —won’t say boo to a goose
The Defense Department-sponsored Freedom Walk will proceed from the Pentagon to the Mall near the Reflecting Pool on the morning of Sept. 11. Country music star Clint Black is donating his time to perform a concert after the walk that will be broadcast to troops overseas.
Yesterday, some of those critics said media support for the Pentagon event undercuts their credibility in covering the controversial war as well as reporting on antiwar efforts.
“No common person will see this as not taking sides in this war,” said Adam Eidinger, a promoter of the antiwar concert being called Operation Ceasefire. “This is clearly support for the war because it’s being organized by the U.S. military.”
“With The Washington Post and other media outlets supporting this, they are in effect putting their opinions behind the Bush administration,” said Caneisha Mills, a national organizer with the antiwar group International ANSWER and a student at Howard University.
4 days later WaPo caves “The Post has a code of conduct that says employees should avoid a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of interest,” said Rick Ehrmann, a Local representative for the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild. “In this case The Post was sponsoring the Pentagon’s Freedom Walk, which ties the attack on Sept. 11 to the Iraq war, and of course, The Post’s reporters have proven ... that there is no connection between the two, that that link is false."
But, of course, that is not a ‘political statement’—and please to ignore those facts crouching malevolently over there in the corner, ‘k?
ThanQ! Mark Nicodemo—check his sidebar for a lovely collection of WMD articles
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