The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : More Erroneous Front Pages

There’s nothing that says they couldn’t have simply said, “Hoping”. This whole thing was indicative of the media’s need to come up with the story first, rather than deal with checking their facts. You can blame them, as honest a mistake as it may have been — the mentality is completely wrong.

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J.P. Freire is a writer in Washington and a former editor at the Washington Examiner and The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jpfreire.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/01/04/more-erroneous-front-pages

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