Just Because It's on a Web Site...

Mary Ann Akers, who writes a behind-the-scenes political blog for the Washington Post Web site, tackles the icy tension between Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Fox News.

The highlight of her post, however, is the quote from an internal memo that John Moody, the VP for news at Fox, sent to staff in the wake of Fox's controversial and incorrect news reports that Obama was educated at a Muslim madrassah in Indonesia.

Moody writes:

For the record: seeing an item on a website does not mean it is right. Nor does
it mean it is ready for air on FNC. The urgent queue is our way of communicating
information that is air-worthy. Please adhere to this.