StarTribune: a joke

As I have said before, I don't get too exercised about the "so-called liberal media." However, some things are just too blatant for me to let pass without comment, and they usually come from the StarTribune.

The StarTribune's story today on the nomination of Harriet Miers has a byline from the LA Times, and the SECOND sentence of the story is as follows:

Miers . . . assumed such an insider role that in 2001 she handed Bush the crucial "presidential daily briefing" hinting at terrorist plots just a month before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Oh my God! She "assumed such an insider role" that "she handed Bush the crucial" PDB? We obviously need to investigate her omissions that allowed 19 fanatics to commit mass murder.

Just out of curiousity, I decided to go to the LA Times website to see if the StarTrib edited the story at all. Not surprisingly, it did. The LA Times did, in fact, state this irrelevant fact, but not until the fourth paragraph of its story. The StarTribune obviously moved it up to make sure that it was on the front page rather than inside in the continued story where fewer people would see it.

So, so, lame.