{"id":1941,"date":"2006-07-16T06:08:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-of-words-on-bank-story\/"},"modified":"2006-07-10T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T02:09:12","slug":"war-of-words-on-bank-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-of-words-on-bank-story\/","title":{"rendered":"War of Words on Bank Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/30\/AR2006063001879.html?referrer=email\">War of Words on Bank Story<\/a> By Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>For the Wall Street Journal editorial page, there may be no more juicy target than the liberal press appearing to undermine the Bush administration&#8217;s war on terror. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The problem: The Journal itself had published a front-page story about the classified program on June 23, the same day as the Times.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal&#8217;s conservative editorial page weighed in yesterday by arguing that what the two newspapers had done was very different&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The editorial makes clear that the administration handed the Journal the same information that President Bush and Vice President Cheney, among others, have been denouncing the Times for publishing. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a <em>Fox News<\/em> poll released yesterday, 60 percent of those surveyed said the Times did more to help terrorist groups by publishing the information, while 27 percent said the story did more to help the public. <strong class=\"highlight\">Forty-three percent called what the newspapers did treason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/29\/AR2006062901904.html?referrer=email\">House GOP Chastises Media<\/a> By Charles Babington, Washington Post Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>The GOP-crafted resolution, approved 227 to 183, also condemned the unidentified sources who leaked information of the program. It said <strong class=\"highlight\">the House &#8220;expects the <em>cooperation<\/em> of all news media organizations&#8221;<\/strong> in protecting the government&#8217;s capability &#8220;to identify, disrupt, and capture terrorists.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) continued to gather signatures on a letter urging House leaders to revoke the credentials that allow New York Times reporters to move about the Capitol. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alcee L. Hastings (D-Fla.) chastised the Republicans. &#8220;You know better than to seek to amend the First Amendment,&#8221; which protects a free press, he said. He noted that Republicans have vilified the Times, which has a liberal editorial page, but barely mentioned the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page is conservative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War of Words on Bank Story By Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer For the Wall Street Journal editorial page, there may be no more juicy target than the liberal press appearing to undermine the Bush administration&#8217;s war on terror. &#8230; The problem: The Journal itself had published a front-page story about the classified program &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/war-of-words-on-bank-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">War of Words on Bank Story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}