Scaife's Paper says typo on "The Price of Disloyalty" article

[RamboLiberal]

Pittsburgh Tribune Review is his paper.

You'll love this one - on their website yesterday in story of how well the O' Neill book was selling they had this paragraph.

And based on calls to a handful of local bookstores Tuesday evening, "The Price of Disloyalty" apparently was impossible to buy in Pittsburgh, where O'Neill still lives after his long career at Alcoa and brief stint in the Bush administration.

I fired off this email:

From your story on sales of the book "The Price of Loyalty". No wonder you're the 2nd rate paper in Pittsburgh. You have to take your Fox News slant on the book, just can't report the news without snide comment.. Glad I don't pay hard-earned money for your rag. Maybe you should read the book and learn how inept Bush and his team really are. Thanks to the deficits that O' Neill and Greenspan warned them against they're leaving a trail of financial destruction that our children will have to pay. The Bush Boom will be short-lived and in the future may be known as the Bush Whimper.

And of course we see in this book more evidence that Bush lied to get us in to this war. We impeached a president for a lie that cost no lives. But this congress lacks the courage to impeach a president that has cost nearly 500 American lives plus left many of our soldiers crippled for life.

Besides posting here I also posted in the local Dean yahoo groups.

Today I got this email from Bill Steigerwald at the paper - note he had this whole message in the subject, nothing in the body.

the price of disloyalty was a typo that appeared only on the web site, which pulls stories befoe they are proof read; sorry to deflate your conspiracy theory.

Yeah right, tell me another one.

Here's the story on their site today:

(Editor's note: This article was revised Jan. 15, 2004, to correct the name of the book.)

Several days of round-the-clock TV news reports and talk-show appearances by Paul O'Neill fanned first-day sales of "The Price of Loyalty" around the country and here in Pittsburgh.

It is ranked the No. 1 best-seller on both the Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com Web sites, which base their rankings on books they sell over the Internet.

And based on calls to a handful of local bookstores Tuesday evening, the book apparently was impossible to buy in Pittsburgh, where O'Neill still lives after his long career at Alcoa and brief stint in the Bush administration.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_174411.html

Hah - caught you in the act!

BTW, some of their own reporters blew the whistle in 2000 when Scaife called them enraged when they published a picture of Gore when he was in Pittsburgh campaigning on the front page.

[Skinner]

1. Well done.

:thumbsup:

[proud patriot]

2. They fixed the typo

:evilgrin:

[tom_paine]

4. Sure it was a typo

:evilgrin:

back atcha!

[Cocoa]

3. great catch

It doesn't matter if they're defensive about it, the point is to let them know people are awake, not make it too easy for them.

:toast:

[wroberts189]

5. Great job :)

I see more and more of this. The media is starting to get confronted on their lies.

Thanks

[Military Brat]

6. "sorry to deflate your conspiracy theory"

Is it ever ever ever possible for a conservative to admit any kind of mistake without taking a swipe at the person who points out the mistake?

Rather "uncivil" of them, wouldn't you say? But then again, Bush set the tone.

[buycitgo]

8. remember when Conason and others caught Andrew Sullivan

lying on his blog, then attempting to retro edit it, then getting caught doing THAT?

pretty funny stuff

anyone recall the subject of that little fiasco.

[doubleyoi]

7. unhinged

I was actually driving to work this AM(in Pgh) thinking about old Dickie Scaife. Trying to figure out why he hates the way he does. Conason/Lyons did some armchair psychology in their Whitewater book, but think about it:
1. Ecomonic policy, well, I guess people could always want more money, but Scaife has so much that Gary Coleman could be prez and he'd still be filty rich
2. War, again, it seems to ENRAGE Scaife that people like Clinton, Dean etc took a pass on Vietnam, but not Bush,Cheney or any of the dozen GOP chickenhawks. The guy has the rage of someone who either spilt his own blood or lost a dear relative, neither applies to Dick.
3.Morality, no, he seems to not have even the slightest sense of a moral compass.
So what is it? It hit me as I hit a pothole the size of Walden Pond, the guy's out of his gourd. And he owns a newspaper.