September 22, 2004, 05:41 PM
What a catch!
The below is from OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today.
What Liberal Media?Thanks to reader Eric for the tip and thanks to the Opinion Journal.The other day David Langworthy, op-ed editor of the Houston Chronicle, penned a candid op-ed piece in which he acknowledged that the "mainstream" media have a liberal bias:
For my money Fox news coverage is as down the middle as CNN's--or CBS's. . . . I would encourage more of my colleagues in the mainstream media to take a look at Fox regularly, as a matter of professional duty. It is an eye opener. It raises some honest questions about where the real political "mainstream" lives.
Well, it doesn't seem to live in the Chronicle newsroom. Last week the paper published a Reuters dispatch about a Bush campaign visit to Rochester, Minn. It was accompanied by a Reuters photo of 6-year-old Madison Long, who "showed her support for President Bush by braiding her hair in the shape of a 'W.' "
Oddly enough, this doesn't seem to be Reuters' fault--but on the Chronicle server the filename of the photo is brainwashedchild.jpg.
Update: So the question is, can we prove to any degree of certainty that someone at the Chronicle changed the file name?
Via Free Republic, the Sydney Herald named this file madison_gallery__438x550.jpg.
A Norwegian paper named this file Dagens_bilde__Madis_163213a.jpg.
Yahoo named this file ra2710789804.jpg.
Update 6:41 PM: So the Chronicle changed the filename. Fortunately, there's the Google cache. They keep a short term copy of the html file. I hovered over the spot where the photo used to be and clicked right>Properties.
Thanks to all our readers over at the Chronicle!
Update 8:09 PM: Sorry for the sarcasm above. That was fun to be caught up in the moment like that, chasing your changes around the Net. Anyway, you all should really issue an apology in the Corrections section. Not to us, but to Madison Long. Obviously she probably hasn't developed sophisticated political opinions, but she was probably excited to meet the president. No need for you all to dump on her moment like that.
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