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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
All three headlines say the same thing.
And anyone can choose to be blind about the obvious when they want to.
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Yes, and everybody will find different things obvious.
All three headlines do not say the same thing. In an article about the Valerie Plame case (where the charge is that someone illegally leaked the name of Plame) the AP headline says:
Papers: Cheney Aide Says Bush OK'd Leak
In case involving an illegal leak, what leak do you think this headline would refer to?
The CNN headline says:
Libby court papers: Cheney said Bush OK'd intelligence leak
This headline give the information that the leak probably wasn't Valerie Plame's name (but that depends on whether you consider that an intelligence leak). It also contains the clarification that CNN inserted in the article that Libby doens't know what Bush said but just what Cheney told him Bush said.
The Fox headline says:
Libby: Bush Authorized Leaks About Iraq
This one specifically says that Bush authorized a leak but removes the possibility that it was Plame's name.
Sure, it is easy to argue that Fox was trying to diffuse the story by making this point clear from the beginning. But it is equally easy to argue that the AP was trying to make it a bigger story than it is by obfuscating that point. Pick the bias you want. All three headlines are true but they don't all say the same thing and if you think they do, then who is being blind to the obvious?
As for the background information, even if Fox News is your only source do you think that this is the only article they've ever had on the entire Valerie Plame affair? Perhaps they feel it unnecessary to re-report the entire trial and history every time there is a development. I don't know. Perhaps they were just letting it in as a placeholder until they got their own
reporting of the story together. A version that comes in at a whole 200 words more than the AP version and seems to have all the background information you felt to be missing.
Fox News leans to the right and AP leans to the left (though not far). They all lean in some direction.