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The Washington Post’s last ombudsman and what that might mean for us

Richard Harwood, former Ombudsman for the Washington Post

By Dave Andrusko I can’t say I read the Washington Post’s Ombudsman regularly enough to know whether Patrick B. Pexton is doing a good job as a go-between between readers and the Washington Post. That is my fault, if for

What the Washington Post’s editorial endorsement of Obama tells us

Historian David Brinkley

By Dave Andrusko I’d like to combine two pieces of journalism to see what together they tell us: the Washington Post’s editorial endorsement of Barack Obama for President and an interview (preceded by a LONG introduction) Mr. Obama gave presidential

Washington Post story offers hints why PPFA is so intensely controversial

Cecile Richards, PPFA Presidsent

By Dave Andrusko http://twitter.com/daveha If you read/watch the way the “mainstream media” covers abortion, you know that collectively it treats Planned Parenthood with kid gloves. There is simply is no compliment too unctuous or too favorable not to make its

Two Investigations of Media Bias, one from an unexpected source

WAPONYT

By Dave Andrusko Over in “A Tale of Two Planned Parenthood Controversies: Wall-to-Wall Komen vs. Silence for Live Action,” we bring you a devastating critique of media one-sidedness, produced by the Media Research Center(MRC). In a word, four separate stories

Even the Washington Post Worries that Opposition to Obama’s is Growing “Strongly”

By Dave Andrusko The headline in today’s Washington Post suggests how nervous his media allies are becoming: “Opposition to Obama grows — strongly.” The immediate impetus for this gloom and doom analysis was yesterday’s Washington Post/ABC News poll (see here).