Saturday, July 12, 2008
Covering for Bush
Three days ago, this was the front-page headline (over a New York Times article) in the San Jose Mercury News:
Right off the bat, it didn't take a genius to see that that headline was complete nonsense. The "pact" referred to was a conference "declaration," not an actual pact, and had completely unenforceable "goals" for more than 40 years in the future (with no intermediate goals) and lacking even a baseline year from which to measure those goals. A more accurate headline might have been, "Bush succeeds in avoiding any commitment on global warming."Bush joins pact to fight global warming
Today there was actual news under this, more accurate headline:
And where did that story appear? Buried on page 7, naturally.Bush efforts on clean air, warming end
