Washington insiders consider any news released on a Friday to be "the trash," because almost nobody will read it on Friday/Saturday, and other news will have come along by Sunday (and all the more so on Superbowl weekend!!). Thus, these stories are born buried. What's up this week in this category? Apparently turn-out in Iraq wasn't quite as rosy as initially reported -- on-the-ground folks are now calling it something on the order of 10%, not the 60% we were hearing on Monday (when everybody in the press was apparently too relieved to ask what those numbers meant and what the sources were).
Friday, February 04, 2005
After-the-fact-checking
Washington insiders consider any news released on a Friday to be "the trash," because almost nobody will read it on Friday/Saturday, and other news will have come along by Sunday (and all the more so on Superbowl weekend!!). Thus, these stories are born buried. What's up this week in this category? Apparently turn-out in Iraq wasn't quite as rosy as initially reported -- on-the-ground folks are now calling it something on the order of 10%, not the 60% we were hearing on Monday (when everybody in the press was apparently too relieved to ask what those numbers meant and what the sources were).
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