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Wilson and Media Bias

Dave Kopel has a fine column today about how -- now that we know Joe Wilson is a liar -- no media outside of the blogosphere is covering the story. In particular, he takes on the Denver media, which he is well acquainted with. From the Rocky Mountain News, here's a quote:

It used to be a very big story. The News ran 19 articles on it, most recently on June 25. The Post had nine articles including a glowing review of Wilson's book, A Defense of Truth, on May 16, and an excerpt from Wilson's book on May 23.

So given all this attention to Wilson and his claims, it would seem responsible for the Denver papers to let readers know that the U.S. Senate has determined that Wilson is not exactly a guy who always acts "in defense of truth," as detailed recently by The Washington Post...

...The Washington Post story has traveled all over the Internet, but has been ignored by much of the establishment media. From the Denver dailies, we have not a word now that a major anti-Bush scandal - which the papers considered newsworthy just a few weeks ago - has turned out to be a con.

In truth, most of the nation's major daily newspapers as well as NBC, CBS, and ABC are all working as hard as they can to defeat President Bush in November. They will gladly print "news" that casts him in poor light, and never retract themselves when that news turns out to be false (or actually it's the reverse in this Wilson affair).

This is why I no longer watch TV news or listen to radio news. I would say that while I still buy a couple newspapers each day -- and I vary them from day-to-day -- most of my information comes from the internet and I try to find the same story on several sites to see how the reports corroborate each other.

Update: Mark Steyn has more on Wilson and the media.

And Ann Coulter offers her own take on Wilson.

Still nothing from Tim Russert, Chris Matthews or Tom Brokow yet...