President-elect Barack Obama did his best to distance himself from the spectacular public drama playing out in his home town yesterday, refusing to talk about the indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich during his only public appearance outside his Chicago transition offices. Full Story »
Posted by Michael Bugeja
This is one of the typical Post stories that while trying to present all sides actually manages to raise eyebrows by its many mentions of all the possible wrongdoings that Obama's team might have been implicated in, even though they were in fact never involved. In other words, its innuendos, even if carefully retracted afterwards ("there is no evidence that...") actually create the impression that something might have been afoot. Careful journalists should reverse the equation. State the facts first, the possible speculations last. The Post should know better.
