The Right Always Sees Media Bias

Regarding the May 26 letters grouped under the heading, "Newsweek story revealed media bias":

Your letter writers were incensed that a story about flushing a Quran down a toilet was published and later retracted because Newsweek's U.S. government source couldn't remember where he had seen the report of the incident - one of many similar reports in the past two years. This may be sloppy journalism, but it hardly qualifies as media bias. Unfortunately, any story, true or false, that challenges the Bush administration constitutes media bias to these folks. And we're still hearing the same old crap about "treason," America-hating and troop slander that they've been spewing since the Iraq war began. How about publishing a few letters under a heading like "Bush lies and distorts intelligence to start unjustified war"? Recent documents obtained from the British government clearly show that our leaders lied blatantly and continuously about the need for war. This is not new information, but it is rock-solid, smoking-gun quality stuff, and I don't see the biased media doing anything with it.

JAMES F. McCARTHY

Ocean City

Letter Published in Atlantic City Press, June 6, 2006

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/columns/060605MEDIALETTSJUN6.cfm