'October Surprise' Backfires

CNS News, a New Media outlet, exposes the 'players' in the latest 'screw the president' scam. Read it here in its entirety:

Media Watchdog: 'October Surprise' Blows Up in Faces of NY Times, CBS News
By Melanie Hunter
CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor
October 26, 2004

(CNSNews.com) - A media watchdog group Tuesday said 'what amounted to an 'October surprise'' by the New York Times and CBS News blew up in their faces.

The Times was first to report Monday what it considered to be new information that 380 tons of explosives were missing from an Iraqi military facility that was supposed to be under U.S. military control. But an NBC News report later noted the explosives were already gone before troops arrived at the Al-Qaqaa installation in April 2003.

CBS News' '60 Minutes' was planning to hold the story until Halloween, two days before Election Day, according to the Drudge Report Tuesday. 'Our plan was to run the story on October 31, but it became clear that it wouldn't hold...' Jeff Fager, executive producer of the Sunday '60 Minutes,' reportedly said in a statement.

'Both the New York Times and CBS have repeatedly shown they have chosen sides against President Bush in this election and, once again, they have been caught with Halloween eggs on their faces,' said Media Research Center President Brent Bozell in a statement.

'Once again it's the Times, once again it's CBS, once again it's 60 Minutes, and once again they have proven that they cannot be believed when it comes to election coverage or anything else,' Bozell said.

'The Times, CBS News, and 60 Minutes especially, have proven beyond all doubt that they are nothing more than extensions of the Democratic National Committee and they have no credibility whatsoever. In fact, episodes such as this and the Rathergate fiasco prove they may be even more partisan than the Democratic Party itself," he added.