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 theNew 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]