NOW & THEN: Reporters' Double Standard

The New York Times top White House reporter lies about her paper's coverage of Presidential lies. In the process, she shows us just how much journalism has gone down hill in the last few years.

NOW:
"[Journalists] can’t just say the President is lying."
- NY Times White House reporter Elisabeth Bumiller on covering President Bush, 11/4/04

THEN:
"The judge said the lawyers were entitled only to fees and expenses for the period beginning Dec. 23, 1997, when President Clinton first lied about his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky."
- NY Times news report, 7/30/99

What this really shows is the double standard that has evolved in the press. Reporters were/are more than happy to declaratively say President Clinton lied about a personal sex scandal (which he did). But they are simply unwilling to say the Bush administration lied in taking America to war - no matter how clear the evidence that he did.