FAIR Notes: 'Terror Plot' Reporting Lacks Skepticism

Networks treat White House allegations as fact

When George W. Bush announced on February 9 that an Al-Qaeda plot against a building in Los Angeles had been "thwarted," many television newscasts took the administration's claims as fact. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2821

Issue Area: Official Agendas
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=7&issue_area_id=36

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