Liberal Reader Calls WashPost on Liberal Bias in DDT Story

http://newsbusters.org ^ | June 10, 2007 | Ken Shepherd

[lowbridge]

Liberal Reader Calls WashPost on Liberal Bias in DDT Story

Posted by Ken Shepherd on June 10, 2007 - 03:28.

This was a rare treat. Seeing a self-described liberal hitting the Washington Post for liberal bias. In this case the writer, one Philip Evans of Kensington, Md., sees the bias stemming from a case of lazy reporting:

Regarding the May 23 Metro article "RachelCarson Bill From Cardin on Hold":I'm a knee-jerk liberal, but sometimes I find myself sympathetic to conservatives who see bias in The Post.

Does The Post lack the reportorial resources to confirm whether Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is a physician? The story reported Coburn's opposition to a resolution to honor environmentalist Carson on the 100th anniversary of her birth, and his pithy rationale, "junk science."

The next paragraph began: "Coburn, whose Web site says he is a doctor specializing in family medicine, obstetrics and allergies . . . ." The Web site attribution of such an easily confirmed fact seems intended to cast doubt on the senator's medical credentials. Would you report, "Sen. Barack Obama's Web site says he attended Harvard Law School"?

[Always Right]

Amazing that there is one liberal out there willing to admit the obvious.

[muawiyah]

The WarshPost is and has been a joke for many decades.

All this proves is that Liberals are mentally quite slow. They should have all realized this earlier.

[frankenMonkey]

It’s a start for this person. He’s noticed it once, he’ll notice it again. Then start to question other sources and liberal teachings. The path to conservatism starts with a single step...

[Condor 63]

Would you report, "Sen. Barack Obama's Web site says he attended Harvard Law School"?

actually, I'll give him this - that was a killshot.

[NVDave]

Good catch.

Check out that next reader who lambastes the Post for their epic incompetence:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802285_4.html

Pretty much nails them to the pillar, IMO.

[Signalman]

And they (the liberal MSM) wonder why they continue to lose readers...and subscribers.

[saveliberty]

Bwhahahahahahahaha

Excellent catch!

[hermgem]

Reader losses go even deeper.
Print media, domestic as well as worldwide, is in fact a huge contributor to global warming.
Millions of trees are felled yearly for the purpose of supplying this print media’s raw material, paper.
Ecology minded readers took notice and canceled their subscriptions.
Haven’t about heard this?
Guess why this print media evades this fact.

[elephantlips]

You cannot have liberals start having to corroborate facts. It would start a wave of reaction which could then build and possibly break out in, shudder, the truth!