Um, rhomp2002, the story Juan Williams said was buried was on the front page of the Sunday Wash Post. Otherwise known as page 1A. That’s how “what he said was not true.” It wasn’t true. It was as if he wrote that the Chicago Cubs won the 2010 World Series.

If Williams had done what any cub reporter would have done, made a phone call, he would have been spared this embarrassment.

Dan

How is what he said not true. All you have to do is read the daily newspapers and you will see this all the time. If it fits the paper’s line, it makes goo d space; if it does not you will find it on page 16 and the bottom of the page. WP does it, NYT does it, Boston Globe does it, Miami Herald does it, Sac Bee and San Jose Mercury and LAT all do this. I can’t believe that Williams would have written what he did if the story that day had appeared on the front page. Bet it appeared buried the first time and then was printed again on the front page. Would not be the first time they did that.

In his column Juan Williams accused the Washington Post of prejudice against blacks and Latinos: “That patronizing attitude amounts to prejudice. It is condescending and says more about the old racial attitudes holding back the big, white press than any racism holding back blacks and Latinos in modern America.”

Beyond simply chastising the editors for an editorial decision, he maligned their motives. Worse, he didn’t seem to have called a single Post editor to ask for an explanation.

If Williams had done what any cub reporter would have done, he would have spared himself this pratfall.

Dan