LA Times Watch: Propaganda at the L.A. Times

os Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll, left, announces his retirement to news staff. Managing Editor Dean P. Baquet, center, will succeed him on Aug. 15. Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, right, praised Carroll’s leadership, saying, “We are indebted to him for his extraordinary legacy of journalistic excellence and wish him every happiness in the future.”

The NRO media blog with Stephen Spruiell Reporting outs Murtha as a critic of the Iraq War.

Note to hapless LAT publisher Jeffrey Johnson: Instead of reviving Robert Scheer’s dormant career by firing him, or having your telemarketers boast that you’ve extirpated liberal Michael Kinsley’s insidious influence, why not pay attention to the bias on the pages people actually read — like the embarrassing deception in the second paragraph of Friday’s front-page, two-column-headline lead story, which seemingly proclaimed that “no Democrat was a firmer ally” of Bush’s war against Saddam than Rep. John Murtha, when in fact Murtha had been a critic of the current Iraq war in 2002, before it started? Funny how those propagandistic mistakes in the news pages never get made in a pro-Bush direction, isn’t it?

HEH!

In all fairness though other Media Ignore Congressman Murtha’s Long History Of Opposition to the Iraq War.