news related : WHY IS THE "LIBERAL MEDIA" SO EASY ON GEORGE W.? [+] ballot by AMSearch created Thu Feb 24, 05 They all but cheered on the invasion of Iraq, they let the Enron scandal slide by despite the fact that Ken Lay was Bush's biggest campaign contributer and sat on his panel on energy policy, etc. And in today's Washington Post... Bush Gets Stoned by the World Media U.S. Press Less Interested in Drug Remarks By Jefferson Morley washingtonpost.com Staff Writer Thursday, February 24, 2005; 6:00 AM President Bush all but admits to illicit drug use for the first time. Overseas it's the stuff of headlines. At home, the U.S. press has generally downplayed the story. The divergent coverage of Bush's apparent drug use is a textbook study in the difference between the international online media and their American counterparts. On the issue of youthful illicit drug use, most U.S. news editors -- liberal, conservative or other -- defer to Bush in a way that their foreign counterparts do not. The New York Times broke the Bush marijuana story Friday in a front-page report on Doug Wead, a Christian activist who has published a book based in part on conversations with Bush that Wead secretly recorded in 1998 and 1999. On Wead's tapes, whose authenticity the White House does not dispute, Bush came close to admitting he had smoked marijuana and avoided answering a question about whether he had used cocaine. "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried," Bush said. On a question about cocaine, Bush said he would reply, "Rather than saying no ... I think it's time for someone to draw the line and look people in the eye and say, you know, 'I'm not going to participate in ugly rumors about me and blame my opponents,' and hold the line. Stand up for a system that will not allow this kind of crap to go on,'" according to a transcript excerpt posted on ABC's "Good Morning America" Web site. Since Bush has never acknowledged using drugs, the international media played up the marijuana angle.... In contrast, most of the traditional leaders of American journalism -- the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the TV networks -- made no mention of drugs in their headlines, although all reported the substance of what Bush said on the tapes. In contrast, anything that Clinton did, the media was on him like a hawk. Why? The "Liberal Media" is a myth perpetuated by right-wing pundits News outlets are only as "liberal" as the huge corporations that own them While reporters may have a liberal slant, the bosses that decide what's news are conservative The only true media bias is a bias towards whatever gets ratings All of the above Easy on George W. Bush?...yeah right! Ballot #68534 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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