John Conyers: Strib's article on Secret Downing Street Memo is the worst

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John Conyers: Three New Stories on Secret Downing Street Memo

Three New Stories on Secret Downing Street Memo
From Good to Bad To Worse

This morning, several newspapers pick up the Downing Street Memo story. Two of three largely miss the point. Strangely, the best story and one of the two mediocre ones share the same byline. I'll explain below.
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Now to the worst -- the Minneapolis Star Tribune, not a great piece. First, the headline "U.S. anger over war memo is slight." Really? According to the piece -- while "liberal web logs have buzzed for days" about this matter, quoting a local academic for substantiation, it is reported that "most Americans are focused on seeking positive outcomes from the war, not reason to blame the Bush administration for starting it."

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"It is not surprising, Pike said, that the new report has drawn little attention in the United States, where Bush was reelected even while polling found that half the electorate believed Bush either lied or deliberately exaggerated evidence to justify going to war.
'I didn't think anybody felt there was a need for more smoking guns," Pike said. 'Didn't we already know that?'"

I knew it, but I don't recall that being reported as fact in the Star Tribune before and check out the polling on Iraq and Al Qaeda and WMD to find out what a significant portion of the public, with the misreporting and lack of follow up of the national news media, "knows" about Iraq.

I read that piece this morning and wondered where they find these "experts" to quote.

And how does some jackass prof at St. Olaf know what MOST Americans want? Did he do some kind of study, or is he just pulling this opinion out of his ass?

pointing out that maybe American's don't care about the memo because the MSM, including the Strib, have failed to give it much coverage. I believe the Strib had a short article buried in the A section about it a week or so ago. Meanwhile, in the last couple weeks they have put articles about prom costs and a local theater's Tony nomination on the front page.

And they wonder why people don't care about the memo.