October 7, 2006

ABC Scrambling to Put Some Meat on Ross' Story

By Clarice Feldman
As time passes, it is increasingly clear that the ABC News report which started the Foley firestorm is odorous —— and I'm not talking Chanel. (1) It dealt with the  emails which the FBI and many media  organizations considered as innocuous as the Republican leadership did. Who circulated these reports is not yet clear.Foley's spokesman said his opponent, Mahoney had been shopping the story to the media for some time. (2) ABC was the first to run with the story which every other media outlet, of the many which had received the email story, had passed on as unsubstantiated and not newsworthy. The only new tag for the story was that Mahoney, Foley's opponent, called for an investigation, a demand he said was impelled by a report on a newly created, barely trafficked utterly fake website designed solely to hide the source of the emails. How did he happen to come across this website? (3) The emails on that site, in any event, are  themselves demonstrably...(Read Full Article)