Dylan Byers

Politico Suspends Reporter Joe Williams for 'Controversial Comments' About Mitt Romney
By Noel Sheppard | June 22, 2012 | 9:56 AM EDT

Politico announced Friday that it has suspended White House correspondent Joe Williams for "controversial comments" he's made about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in recent days.

Dylan Byers reported hours ago:

Politico Attacked by Liberals for Noting Pro-Obama Bias in WashPost, NY Times
By Tim Graham | May 31, 2012 | 5:49 PM EDT

The gang at Politico is under fire from liberal friends for a piece by Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei alleging major newspapers have a pro-Obama, anti-Romney bias. For example, Devin Gordon, a former Newsweek writer who's now a "senior editor" at GQ, lamented "The house position of Politico, as evidenced by this piece, is that they are fair and their chief competition is not. It's a thinly disguised, fundamentally craven argument for Politico's superiority in the world of political coverage."

Unsurprisingly, the newspapers claimed they were fair and balanced in the Dylan Byers followup:

Politico's Byers: When Will Media 'Teach' That Mormons Loved Polygamy and Racism?
By Tim Graham | May 20, 2012 | 11:39 PM EDT

Politico media reporter Dylan Byers is impatient with the media: “When will we talk about Mormonism?”

He means the negative stuff: “I’m talking about a national conversation about the Mormon faith, including its past practice of polygamy (which was renounced by the church in the 19th century) and its exclusion of African Americans from the priesthood (until 1978). That sort of thing.” Does he watch anything?

White House Admits Asking Media to Scrub Reports of Malia Obama's Mexican Vacation
By Noel Sheppard | March 20, 2012 | 9:50 AM EDT

After it was reported Monday that Malia Obama was going to Mexico for spring break with 25 Secret Service agents, people began to notice that such reports were being scrubbed from the Internet.

Politico's Dylan Byers reported Tuesday this was done at the request of the White House:

Politico Media Critic Dylan Byers Whines That Fox News 'Buries the Jobs Numbers'
By Ken Shepherd | March 9, 2012 | 4:30 PM EST

"Fox News again buries the [monthly] jobs numbers," Politico media critic Dylan Byers groused this morning in a 10:23 a.m.-stamped post. Those numbers "appear in the lead or left-hand column atop the websites of the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and MSNBC, as of 10 a.m.," Byers noted.

But as email tipster James Harper pointed out to us, Fox News did later address the jobs report with a front-page story (which is still there) that delves into how the "Jobless stats reveal disparities as economy starts to recover." Disparities such as the fact that:

Left-wing Talker Bill Press: 'I Can't Think of One Good Thing to Say' About 'Right-Wing Extremist' Breitbart
By Ken Shepherd | March 2, 2012 | 4:06 PM EST

Former Catholic seminarian and left-wing radio host Bill Press took to his eponymous program today and devoted significant attention to the death of conservative blogger and author Andrew Breitbart. It was not all positive, although he did feature guests who had kind things to say about Breitbart's impact on Internet journalism.

"Raised a Catholic, I was taught the great phrase 'Necal [sic] nisi bonum*' you don’t say anything about the dead unless you’re saying good things about the dead. Well, then I should say nothing about Andrew Breitbart because I can’t think of one good thing to say about him." [MP3 clip here]