Drudge falsifies report about Raw Story Rove headline
RAW STORY
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Tuesday June 13, 2006
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In its first-even mention of RAW STORY, the Drudge Report has filed a blatantly false headline which asserts that the site did not post news of Rove's eluding indictment until 8:21 AM ET. The story is false.
The headline went up no later than 8:07 AM ET. RAW STORY does not employ someone to update the site until 8:00 ET. Some of the sources below have been blurred to protect anonymity.
Drudge recently lifted quotes from a RAW STORY piece quoting Karen Finney, Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee, after he falsely asserted that Howard Dean had intervened in the recent New Orleans mayoral race.
Drudge retracted the claim after our investigation.
Drudge's 'report' follows.
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For months it was screams and dreams from left-wing news sites on the internet: Karl Rove is on the verge of being indicted in the CIA leak case!
[This drama also played out last century with endless web warnings of Hillary Clinton indictments.]
Yet when word finally came down this morning that, in fact, Rove was on the verge of being cleared in the case, the fledgling sites somehow lost their way and suddenly struggled to keep up.
Some sites like truthout.org and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann opted for complete omission!
6:37 AM ET -- First Reported by Byron York at NATIONAL REVIEW.COM
6:40 AM -- News breaks on NYTIMES.COM
7:39 AM HUFFINGTON POST.COM [in small mouse type from automated AP feed: 'Rove won't be charged in CIA leak case']
8:21 AM -- RAWSTORY.COM still no splash headline
More than two hours into the news cycle, truthout.org, a site which famously splashed the headline last month, 'Karl Rove Indicted on Charges of Perjury, Lying to Investigators,' a headline which ignited a firestorm in the underground, still featured no announcement of Rove NOT being charged.
Truthout.org was still standing by its story.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's page also carried no word on Rove being cleared, despite months of assuring his audience [ON MORE THAN 26 DIFFERENT PROGRAMS, ACCORDING TO NEXIS] how the Bush adviser faced indictment.
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