



Alessandra Stanley Watch: Just As Inaccurate In Our Town
If you’ll allow us to briefly venture into our loose-lipped sister’s territory, we found the New York Times’ choice of notoriously fact-handicapped TV critic Alessandra Stanley to review Tony Snow’s first televised press briefing a possibly ill-advised one. But it all seemed to work out, as the piece is fairly boilerplate and accurate. Fairly. There’s this, though:
And Mr. Snow, a former Fox News anchor who was tapped to replace a testy and tapped out Scott McClellan, assumes the post at a time when the president’s approval ratings are a personal worst; only Jimmy Carter and Richard M. Nixon were judged as poorly.
ABC News, May 16, 2006:
Other presidents have fared worse than Bush’s current ratings: Harry Truman saw 22 percent in 1952, Richard Nixon 23 percent in 1974 and Jimmy Carter 28 percent in 1979 in Gallup polls. [Emphasis added]
Correction forthcoming, no doubt.
At White House Briefing, Polish Replaces Testiness [NYT]
Bush Slumps to New Low — It’s All About Iraq [ABC]
Related: Gawker Coverage of Alessandra Stanley [Gawker]
READ MORE: alessandra stanley, corrections, george w. bush, harry s. truman, new york times, polls, tony snow
"were judged as poorly" ??? Meaning, the judging is what's poor?
Man, you're telling me this copy ran in the NY Times? Holy balls.
by nick on 05/17/06 12:15 PM
What gives ? White House Press Briefings are now in Polish ????
Drat !-- and just when I had become fluent in Testiness.
by P. Tronius Tirebiter on 05/17/06 03:47 PM
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