ABC IS Doctoring Their Own News Broadcasts

When Charlie Gibson took a statement out of context in an attempt to trip up Sarah Palin the other day, and then got called for it, they did what any reputable news organization would do; they removed the context in the interview itself to make Gibson's question seem fairer.

Stubborn Facts calls this type of journalistic excercise in contextual deconstruction "to Dowdify":

"The willful omission of one or more words so the meaning of the statement is no longer understood but that the statement suits the needs of the writer in launching an ad hominem attack whether or not the construction is truthful or grammatically complete."

I guess the "truth" is whatever the media says it is. Reality be damned.