Barker Blows It

The Post-Dispatch's Tim Barker posted a story early this morning on last week's smear of two Missouri instructors by Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com website.   Yet as Adam Shriver points out, Barker really drops the ball when it comes to reporting the known facts about the videos. 

The sum total of Barker's "reporting" on the fact that the videos are obvious hit jobs sliced up to misrepresent reality is contained in this sentence: "[Officials at UMKC] have criticized the Internet videos, saying their editing put the instructors' comments out of context." 

Um, yeah.  UMKC provost Gail Hackett said the videos totally distorted the instructors' comments by "taking their statements out of context and reordering the sequence in which those statements were actually made so as to change their meaning." 

And since the Star published UMKC's response last Thursday, extended video clips have been made public, and all of them are available to Barker. Readers aren't informed of this fact, or even given any indication that Barker has watched the longer segments.

Should Barker wish to update his woefully incomplete reporting, here are a few links worth clicking:

Our Liberal Media strikes again.