[andyfox]

I copied the quote directly off a web site, so if he was misquoted it wasn't I (me?) who did it. It was the first web site I googled to get the quote, about which I had heard on the radio this morning.

I remember once Mario Cuomo criticizing a New York Times reporter on an interview show about the media getting something he said wrong. The reporter asked him if he thought the media gets it wrong all the time. Cuomo said no, but far too often. I agree.

The most egregious recent example I remember was a headline in the Los Angeles Times the day after one of President Bush's speeches on Iraq before the invasion. The headline said the president said Iraq was an imminent threat. In fact, the president said exactly the opposite, that it wasn't an imminent threat.