The Daily Caller has a piece today looking at how the liberals at Politico looked down on the gossip site TMZ.com for "stalking" Hillary Clinton at a public airport.
Betsy Rothstein
Hypocrisy Alert: WashPost Puts Race-related Lawsuits on Page One -- Unless It's a Lawsuit Against The Post
By Tim Graham | October 13, 2013 | 7:02 PM EDT Media outlets see themselves as brave souls reporting on racial discrimination inside greedy corporations. On June 12, The Washington Post made a front-page story out of a suit against BMW and Dollar General by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for “indirectly discriminating against African Americans by using criminal background checks to screen out workers.”
At FrontPage magazine, conservative freelancer Evan Gahr reports the Post is “quieter than deaf mutes about a lawsuit alleging race discrimination at their own paper.” This is just like NPR's on-air silence when it was sued by correspondent Sunni Khalid for racial and anti-Muslim discrimination in 1997. The blog Fishbowl DC covered the contrast, and then said that contrast is interesting, but tried to underline just how totally understandable the Post blackout on itself was:
By Ken Shepherd | August 24, 2011 | 3:17 PM EDT
Howard Kurtz committed journalistic "incest" by tweeting an article written by his daughter for TheHill.com.
That is, according to Fishbowl DC editor, Betsy Rothstein, who ranked it a 6.5 out of 10 on the journalistic "incest scale":
By Ken Shepherd | August 9, 2011 | 1:34 PM EDT
Being a liberal journalist or blogger has its perks, such as a free attendance to a conference this October that will feature former Obama aide and 9/11 Truther Van Jones.
But wait, there's more: a scrumptious awards dinner honoring an abortion advocate!