Once Again (This Time On Oil Drilling) Media EDITS Most Important Paragraph Of Obama Quote

[kpete]

FROM:

"I am skeptical ..."

TO:

"Obama Signals Support for Wider Offshore Drilling" - Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/01/AR2008080103199.html

Daily Kos
Obama quote: Corporate media omissions. A deliberate decision?
by shpilk
Sat Aug 02, 2008 at 10:43:56 AM PDT

In the recent statement by Obama about offshore drilling, there has apparently been selective editing taking place at the AP to delete this paragraph.

Here's an earlier release which contains the whole Obama quote.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5isOFwdbq0tsqatW6vJpkDRTI1gMgD929P6301

Later versions of this AP piece leave out this paragraph, and 'news outlets' like the NYT are not quoting this paragraph.

"Like all compromises, it also includes steps that I haven't always supported," Obama conceded. "I remain skeptical that new offshore drilling will bring down gas prices in the short-term or significantly reduce our oil dependence in the long-term, though I do welcome the establishment of a process that will allow us to make future drilling decisions based on science and fact."

Using the Google news aggregator, one can use sections of the Obama quote and a relative idea as to the number of hits where the quote shows up. It numbers around 1600 hits.

Here's the important part: while the news aggregator shows there's a hit for the phrase, the phrase does not exist in most of the articles.


more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/2/134356/2273/348/553935