If you’ll allow us to briefly venture into our loose-lipped sister’s territory, we found the New York Times’ choice of notoriously fact-handicapped TV critic Alessandra Stanley to review Tony Snow’s first televised press briefing a possibly ill-advised one. But it all seemed to work out, as the piece is fairly boilerplate and accurate. Fairly. There’s this, though:

And Mr. Snow, a former Fox News anchor who was tapped to replace a testy and tapped out Scott McClellan, assumes the post at a time when the president’s approval ratings are a personal worst; only Jimmy Carter and Richard M. Nixon were judged as poorly.

ABC News, May 16, 2006:

Other presidents have fared worse than Bush’s current ratings: Harry Truman saw 22 percent in 1952, Richard Nixon 23 percent in 1974 and Jimmy Carter 28 percent in 1979 in Gallup polls. [Emphasis added]

Correction forthcoming, no doubt.

At White House Briefing, Polish Replaces Testiness [NYT]
Bush Slumps to New Low — It’s All About Iraq [ABC]
Related: Gawker Coverage of Alessandra Stanley [Gawker]