New Columbia J-School Report Advocates Government Support for News Med
Bemoaning the decline in advertising for newspapers, two leading media figures, in a report from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the bastion of establishment liberal journalism, call for taxpayer spending on the news media, advocating that public radio and television be “substantially reoriented” to “provide significant local news reporting” and for the creation of a “a…
WaPo Shocks No One; Endorses VA Dem the Paper Has Been Boosting for Mo
In what could be described as the biggest non-surprise of the 2009 Virginia gubernatorial election, the Washington Post on Sunday endorsed Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate that its news section has been touting for months. Beginning in late August, the Post ran numerous hit pieces, 12 in the first 11 days, against Republican Bob McDonnell for a 20 year-old college thesis.The massive, 1391…
Wilbon: Rush Limbaugh 'Universally Reviled by African-Americans
On Sunday, ESPN host and sportswriter Michael Wilbon said conservative talk radio personality Rush Limbaugh is "univerally reviled by African-Americans." As amazing as it may seem, this was at least the second time Wilbon made this statement on national television.Unfortunately, the person he said it to Sunday -- Howard Kurtz on CNN's "Reliable Sources" -- didn't bother challenging him about…
Anita Dunn and Mao: Establishment Press Predictably Mostly Muzzled
This won't surprise anyone who reads this blog regularly, but it needs to get on the record nonetheless: The airing of a June video showing interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn praising Mao and Mother Teresa as "two of my favorite philosophers" to a group of high school students is barely news in the establishment press. In an August 2008 report on the Obama campaign, Anne E.…
WaPo Columnist Michael Wilbon Reaches New Heights In Cognitive Dissona
Michael Wilbon, a sports writer and columnist for ‘The Washington Post,’ has written a really entertaining column today.Entertaining, in that it’s self-contradictory in the extreme. This column is the literary equivalent of punching an inflatable Bobo the Clown. And of course, it has to be about Rush Limbaugh.Wilbon can’t even make it out of the first paragraph without making a contradiction…
Brokaw Gives Free Advice to Obama on How He Can 'Share' the Peace Priz
Concerned about how President Obama's "critics will dog him all the way to Oslo," former NBC "Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw took to the op-ed page of the October 15 Washington Post to offer his recipe for "lift[ing] this discussion out of the partisan soup that is now the main course on our national agenda, whatever the issue."Chef Brokaw then served up what is a proverbial bipartisan casserole…
WaPo Whines About Attempt to Prevent Porn Screenings on Public College
To the Washington Post editorial board, restrictive campaign finance measures are perfectly valid, constitutional exercises in protecting the public, but heaven forbid a state lawmaker would want to prevent the taxpayer-subsidized screening of porn on public college campuses. In "Rated XXX," the Post's editorial board today declared obscene a mild measure aimed at preventing -- but not banning…
WaPo Sportswriter: Limbaugh's 'Civility, Accuracy, and Decency' Below
The Washington Post is such a liberal newspaper that its sports columnists spout liberal bias. In an online Post chat on Friday, Thomas Boswell lamented the low standard of civility set by the "crazy things" Rush Limbaugh says as a St. Louis Rams fan lamented the prospect of Limbaugh owning the Rams: Worse Owner Than Snyder?: I'm originally from St. Louis, where word is out that Rush Limbaugh is…
Nobel for Obama 'Ridiculous,' But Wash Post's Marcus Admits: 'I Voted
Hardly shocking news, but it's always good to note for the record whenever a mainstream media journalist admits – or boasts – of voting for the more liberal presidential candidate. The Nobel Peace Prize going to President Barack Obama prompted such an admission from long-time Washington Post reporter Ruth Marcus, the paper's deputy national editor from 1999 through 2002 (bio) and now a columnist…
NYT’s Brooks: Obama Nobel Prize Award a 'Joke' and 'Travesty'; WaPo
Remember just a week ago when New York Times columnist David Brooks slammed the likes Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck? Naturally, that led to the left-wing noise machine, and the media which uses that message for show prep, to suggest there was a split in the conservative movement and therefore attempt to marginalize the conservative message. However, will they be so eager to echo the sentiment of…
Veteran Post Reporter Says Media Should Own Up to Liberal Slant
Veteran reporter Thomas Edsall is again sounding the alarm on the political imbalance of today's news media, though his proposed solution, illustrated by the headline to his Thursday post at Columbia Journalism Review, might not satisfy critics: "Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism." Edsall, now a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, was quite the liberal reporter himself…
WaPo's Hockstader Hopes to Make 'Macaca' Moment of McDonnell Fundraise
In its never-ending quest to "macaca" Republican Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell, the Washington Post has ably illustrated it is far from being a "post-partisan" purveyor of news.Today in the paper's "Post Partisan" blog, staffer Lee Hockstader displayed once again the paper's determination to help down-in-the-polls liberal Democrat Creigh Deeds limp across the finish line. Never…
