(H/T – Don Surber via Lawhawk)
Former Congressman Gary Condit’s (D-CA) lawsuit against author Dominic Dunne alleging slander over the death of government intern and paramour Chandra Levy was dismissed yesterday. While Reuters properly identified Condit’s party and McClatchy didn’t identify at all, the original crAP dispatch dispatch from Erica Werner slandered the Republican Party in the sixth paragraph (thanks to Google for keeping the original dispatch handy; I do have a screenshot ready just in case this goes into the memory hole):
Condit, a former Republican congressman from California’s Central Valley, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of Levy’s May 2001 disappearance at age 24, or her death….
I do have to note that the current dispatch has the correct party affiliation.
Considering the Condit/Levy affair was the biggest news item on September 10, 2001, I rather doubt that it was an honest mistake. No wonder why The News Organization That Cannot Be Quoted™ doesn’t want to be quoted.
