Two McClatchy reporters played Robert Gibbs, Obama’s press secretary, today with a story titled “Cheney’s speech contained inaccuracies.” In the story, dubbed an “analysis,” which means it’s an editorial disguised as a news item, they nitpicked disagreements between Cheney and those who disagree with him and the Obama administration:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense Thursday of the Bush administration’s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.
News flash to McClatchy: The phrase “contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements” could be used in the lede of any story about any public statement that Obama makes. Don’t hold your breath, though.
UPDATE: NewsBusters is on the case, too:
Would anybody at the ailing McClatchy Newspapers care to point out to us even the slightest hint of neutrality in the reporting of two correspondents for that chain, Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday about terrorism? You sort of get the idea where these two are coming from just by reading the title of their report: “Cheney’s speech contained omissions, misstatements.”
