RS>> They're going to learn the hard way that governing is a lot
RS>> harder than just making inflammatory speeches.



BK>   Governing is a lot harder, but most of them won't learn.



BK>   They will just fail, and make excuses.



RS>Of course.



RS>Blame "the liberal media" for their own screw-ups, as always.



RS>Like Sarah the Quitter is doing about her mistake about Norht and South
RS>Korea, she says it went all over the "liberal news media."



RS>Guess what.



RS>It was barely mentioned, if at all.



`Barely mentioned'? Really?




Media Matters Lies About Media Coverage of Sarah Palin North Korea Slip - Big
Journalism



Democratic Party front group Media Matters for America has published yet
another attack on Republican Sarah Palin. This one a dishonest portrayal of
media coverage of her recent slip of the tongue regarding the crisis on the
Korean peninsula.



In a Thanksgiving Day message posted Nov. 25th on her Facebook page, Palin
opened her post with a tongue in cheek send-up of President Barack Obama in
which no fewer than ten of his verbal gaffes and misstatements were included
and sourced.



My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With
our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate
from the FBI's 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to
our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to
stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong
friend of Israel's. And let's face it, everybody knows that it makes no
sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like
asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they
just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah,
a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don't
know what the term is in Austrian for that!



The point Palin was making was that though everyone occasionally goofs up,
including the President, you might not remember hearing about his, "because
for the most part the media didn't consider them newsworthy," Palin wrote.



Such is not the case when it comes to Palin who in the course of a radio
interview with Glenn Beck, mistakenly referred to South Korea as North Korea,
but then quickly corrected herself. Media Matters blogger Oliver Willis,
writing at his personal blog, posted the audio clip of Palin's slip. Willis
is one of several liberal bloggers who met recently with President Obama at
the White House.


Responding to Palin's "states" comment, Media Matters' Eric Boehlert
wrote "Palin Concocts More Media Sins." Boehlert uses a search of Nexis to
make Media Matters' disingenuous case that Palin has overblown media
coverage of her "We have to stand by our North Korean allies" flub made
during the interview with Beck on his radio show last Wednesday.



Boehlert smears Palin, describing her as being nuts in some manner or form,
"self-obsessed" and imagining things.



"Fox News' Sarah Palin is now so consumed with every real or imagined
media wrong against her that she's to the point where she's attacking the
press for stuff they don't even do."



Even though Palin's slip was reported in headlined stories by American and
international wire services, as well as major news sites across America and
around the globe, Boehlert claims "major American newspaper(s) did not turn
the Palin/North Korea gaffe into a "major political headline,"
did not treat
it as news, and did not even mention it as news when it occurred ." Boehlert
changes Palin's assertion of major political headlines to major newspaper
headlines, a sleight of hand that allows Boehlert to use Nexis to list major
American news outlets that supposedly did not report on Palin's slip:
"New York Times; Wall Street Journal; Los Angeles Times; Washington Post;
New York Post; Houston Chronicle; Philadelphia Inquirer; Newsday; Denver Post;
Arizona Republic; Minneapolis Star Tribune; Dallas Morning News; Cleveland
Plain Dealer; Seattle Times; Chicago Sun-Times;"



Boehlert also claims broadcast media did not cover Palin’s slip:



"What other news outlets ignored Palin's verbal gaffe when it occurred?



All three major networks "ABC, CBS, and NBC; as well as CNN, Fox News, PBS
and NPR."



However, Boehlert fails to note the story exploded on major news sites on the
Web within hours of Palin's slip. Boehlert also conveniently fails to note
that the faux scandal was initiated by his fellow Media Matters writer Oliver
Willis.



A Google News search reveals the following global reporting trying to paint
Palin as ignorant for what a transcript of the interview with Beck reveals to
be a simple slip of the tongue.



The Associated Press article Palin Draws Fire With North Korea Gaffe was
published at 162 news sites according to Google News, including The Washington
Post; Newsday; CBS News; The Miami Herald; The Kansas City Star; and The
Huffington Post.


Another wire service, AFP, headlined their article, In Gaffe, Palin Supports
Our North Korea Allies. UPI titled their article Palin Silent on North Korea
"Ally" Gaffe.



Newsbusters reported that ABC News mentioned Palin's slip on Good Morning
America.



Also contrary to Boehlert's shoddy propaganda is this Wall Street Journal
report titled, Sarah Palin Says US Must "Stand With North Korea
Allies" and a
Los Angeles Times piece titled, Why Make a Big Deal Out of Sarah Palin's  "our
North Korean allies" Gaffe which concluded the media should make a big deal of
it.


In addition to carrying the AP article, CBS News did a stand alone article
titled, Sarah Palin Mistakenly Calls N. Korea an "Ally" which drew 1075
comments.



Political news sites played up Palin's slip, including MSNBC; The Hill;
Politico; and The Atlantic Wire, which gleefully headlined their article,
Quote of the Day: Palin Sticks With "North Korean" Allies.



The story quickly went around the globe. British news outlets reporting
Palin's slip included: The Guardian; the BBC; Sky News; and The Daily Mail.
The Daily Express headlined their article Let's Back North Korea Says
Blundering Sarah Palin.



Palin's slip was also reported in Korea; China; Hong Kong; Malaysia; India;
New Zealand and Australia.


Clearly, the Nexis version of news does not reflect online versions of the
media's dead tree editions. Moreover, the vast majority of people are
reading their news online. Boehlert's sleight of hand claim that Nexis has no
record of the story being published in the majors is disingenuous.


If there's a lesson to be learned from Media Matters ginning up a political
hit only to follow it up later with commentary that Sarah Palin is delusional,
it's this: reporters relying on Media Matters for accuracy are setting
themselves up to be played for fools.






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