JANUARY 16, 2005 --

After news of the Rather Report Report, leading to the dismissal of four CBS newspersons, LPR checked the editorial columns of The New York Times and The Washington Post to see what they would say.

Nothing on the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th
or 15th -- as far as LPR could tell. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen did write that the staffers should not have been fired -- but how about firing some people in the Bush Administration?

Do these leading lights of Medialand tacitly support the use of unsupportable documents to obtain the defeat of Republican presidents seeking re-election?

Well here is good news for the Post and Times -- on chance they might be annoyed that internetters called attention to the bogus document on Mr. Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard.

The New York Yankees refused to permit LPR to attend the Welcome Randy Johnson press conference because it
is not a newspaper or TV news outlet.

As last week's photo of Mr. Johnson, posted on LPR indicates -- with
the two photos here shown, LPR was permitted to stand outside the Yankee press gate. Just where the Post and
Times might prefer internetters -- outside the gate.

Not, of course, to be confused with The Gates.