Posted on 12/23/2008 7:36:30 AM PST by abb
Two newspapers set the agenda for the rest of the media: The Washington Post and The New York Times. The stories they break, the play they give them, and the way they characterize candidates, events, and issues are usually adopted by both print and broadcast reporters.
As a Christmas gift, I am happy to report that one of those newspapers — The Washington Post — appears to have discarded its liberal slant and become a fair newspaper.
As a Washington Post reporter from 1970 to 1985, I have been dismayed by the way the paper, along with much of the rest of the media, became openly partisan during the Bush administration. I cite examples of unfair coverage of Bush initiatives in my books on the war on terror, on Laura Bush, and on George W. Bush. I guarantee that if we had written stories like that during the Watergate days, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee would have fired us.
But since Katharine Weymouth, a granddaughter of former Post Chairman Katharine Graham, became publisher a year ago, the paper has steadily become more fair. A graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Law School, she practiced law at Williams & Connolly in Washington prior to coming to the Post. After Weymouth named former Wall Street Journal Editor Marcus Brauchli executive editor last September, the switch to more balanced coverage became even more noticeable.
No longer do I pick up the paper to find slanted stories that suppress or ignore the other side or that mischaracterize issues to further a liberal agenda. Instead, honesty has been restored to the coverage. It has become more probing and interesting as well.
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Ron,
You can’t get the Washington Post to tell its’ readers that the openly Communist Party For Socialism and Liberation runs the ANSWER front group, it’s not fair reporting.
Is today April 1st?
So now that a Democrat is in the Whitehouse, their reporting will be “fair.”
How convenient.
Oh man I love scrappleface! You almost had me. ;o)
Hey Ron, could it be that Obama won, the job of completely discrediting Bush, Republicans, and Conservatives is (temporarily) complete until the new season has begun? When some POS in politics gets caught with his hand (or other part) in a “cookie jar”, does the Post still put the “R” next to his name, unless it should be a “D”? if so, then they Post is no more fair than it was 2 years ago...
“Better Red and Dead than Read”
Any truth to what he’s saying? I honestly don’t read the WaPo or NYT, only the select articles that appear here on FR and Instapundit.
None. He must have gotten an invite to some party or was hoping to.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/23/AR2008122301161_pf.html
Washington Post, Baltimore Sun to Share Content
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/12/23/post-sun-content-sharing-limited-on-the-sports-front/
Content Sharing: Limited on the Sports Front
http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=13753
Washington Post, Baltimore Sun to share content
“#8482”
Wow, that’s a lot of DeathWatch pings! Great work Abb!! LOL
Too little, too late?
“Newspaper changing to adapt to tough times” = “Newspaper whistling past the graveyard”
http://tdu.org/node/2682
Opposition Grows to Star Tribune Cuts
WaPo has a large roster of the most hyper-partisan Liberal collumnists, and only one real conservative, Charles Krauthammer. WaPo has a long long way to go to ever be considered a fair and balanced newspaper. I doubt they will ever get there.
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