New Voting on ANWR

H/T: Carol Platt-Liebau

MSNBC is reporting "The House of Representatives is planning to this week vote yet again on opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling."

It's about time. Of course, it didn't take Reuters long to throw cold water on the report:
No Senate action for now

The Senate will not take up any energy-related provisions this week, Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
For crying out loud!!! It's Thursday and the Senate is about to vote on comprehensive immigration reform. Did this idiot for Reuters expect Bill Frist to pull that legislation off the schedule to vote on drilling in ANWR? Of course they didn't, which leads to the question: Why is this sentence even in this article?

I'm not a 'professional journalist' and I don't give advice very often (The old cliche "Socrates gave great advice; they made him drink poison" is all the admonition that I need) but I'll make this exception:

Reuters, Instruct your reporters to stick to reporting the facts. Instruct them to ignore the temptation to use such throwaway sentences in a news story. If they want to use throwaway sentences, let Tom Raum or Ron Fournier use them in their hyperventillating columns.

Either that or leave real reporting to real reporters.



Posted Thursday, May 25, 2006 10:43 AM

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