Why Hotels Give Away Free Copies of USA Today - Content

Per the AP:

USA Today acknowledged in a "note to our readers" Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records, as it previously reported...............

So on a Friday before a holiday, not on the front page, USA Today is whispering via a "note to their readers" that they made a massive mistake and reported some seriously wrong info on a story that never should have been reported?.............. I'd say its a disservice to their subscribers but somehow I have an issue calling hotels subscribers.......The whisper goes on to say:

In an accompanying story, the newspaper reported Friday that lawmakers on House and Senate intelligence committees have said that while the NSA has amassed a huge database calling records, cooperation with the NSA by telephone companies was not as extensive USA Today initially reported on May 11..........

Huh, "not as extensive as initially reported" but to hell with substantiating that it was before running the story? It was kind of important that you got the content right on this before you published it, wasn't it? Nice job...................

Then of course to deflect their massive failing, USA Today throws out a criticism stating those in congress who supported the NSA program now have an issue because the program was not as extensive as it should be:

Lawmakers who support the Bush administration's domestic spying program see the apparent gaps in the database as a problem. "It's difficult to say you're covering all terrorist activity in the United States if you don't have all the (phone) numbers," Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., told USA Today. "It probably would be better to have records of every telephone company.".................

So in their whisper to readers disclosing just how wrong they got the story, this is a major part of the new disclosure and new story? Before the false elements were know the Bush Administration did "too much" and "overstepped their authority" and now that we know there is serious factual issues with the story the Bush Administration has done "too little" for those who supported the false report? Nice, thanks for giving us the proper perspective and getting us refocused on the important elements of your false report.....................

There is a reason that hotels leave a free copy of the USA Today on the floor, in the hallway outside your hotel room, it's called quality of content.......................

It's also not that surprising that the lefties who have their ear on the ground to catch the latest conspiracy angle, have their head in a decent to position to read a publication that rests below the threshold of ones hotel room door.........

So what position must their head be in to believe the NYT? I won't go there.......


Others covering the USA Whisper I found interesting:

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