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SMEARED BY ASSOCIATION.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
CNN covered the story throughout its news cycle Thursday. CNBC's "Hardball" did a segment on it. The "elite" newspapers all felt it was worth devoting space to. The New York Post even gave it one of its screaming full-page headlines.
Peace in the Middle East? A breakthrough pact in missile defense with Russia? A cure for cancer or AIDS?
Please, nothing so mundane. Rather, the breathless coverage of presidential daughter Jenna Bush and drinking.
Austin, Texas, police have charged her, her sister and a friend with, variously, using a fake ID to buy a drink and possessing alcohol while underage. Imagine, a 19-year-old college student trying to buy alcohol.
Leaving aside the questions of how police learned the Bush party was trying to buy drinks -- and no other underage scofflaws were cited -- one must ask: Why the saturation coverage of a routine college offense?
Could it be the mainstream media's latest attempt to trash Jenna's dad, George Bush?
Consider: When Al Gore III was cited for speeding and driving under the influence of alcohol last August, the media muted their coverage. A search of U.S. printed news outlets on Nexis found 74 stories about young Gore's alcohol-related woes in the last year.
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Slover, Pete April 27, 2001 700+ words
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