Twenty-six words.

AuthorPeters, Charles
PositionTilting at Windmills - Brief Article

The Post's lack of enthusiasm for stories that are favorable to Kerry was once more displayed on May 28. After it devoted two front-page stories to Bush's foreign affairs speech that same week, its report on Kerry's first major foreign affairs address ran on page A9. The New York Times put it on page one, as indeed did even the Bush-loving Washington Times. The Post can take comfort, however--ABC "World News Tonight" was even worse, h used only 26 words from Kerry's speech, apparently because they dealt with Iraq. The rest of ABC's account concerned discontent about Kerry's position on Iraq. Actually, if the ABC reporter, Dan Harris, and his producer had paid closer attention to the...

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