USA Today editorial failed to identify jailed members of Congress as Republicans

Published: August 6, 2007, 4:25 pm

Tags: usa today, ethics, government elections

An August 6 USA Today editorial called the recently passed congressional ethics bill "the most far-reaching since Watergate" but claimed that the bill fell short in "two major areas": that earmarks would be disclosed "[b]ut they wouldn't necessarily be easy to find and connect to sponsors," and that "Congress failed to add independent panels to judge lawmakers' conduct." The editorial said further: "Never mind that two high-profile House members went to jail in the past 17 months in scandals that never even piqued the interest of the current House ethics committee." But the paper failed to identify the "two high-profile House members" as Republicans -- former Reps. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (CA) and Bob Ney (OH). Indeed, the online version of the editorial links to an August 2 Associated Press article on the passage of the bill in the Senate, which reported that Cunningham is "in prison on corruption charges." On September 15, 2006, Ney pleaded guilty to

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