Another Drive-By Headline on Court CO2 Ruling
UPDATE (14:18 EDT): See bottom of post. The front-page teaser headline for today's front page Washington Post article on the Supreme Court's CO2 ruling (emphases below are mine):Court: EPA Violated Clean Air ActSupreme Court rebukes Bush administration for refusing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.The link takes readers to today's front page article by Robert Barnes and Juliet Eilperin, "…
Signs of a Liberal Media: Yoko Ono Honorifics
One sign that a news outlet is liberal is how they can find nothing controversial in peace protests by long-time avant-garde hippies like Yoko Ono, the widow of John Lennon. The Washington Post greeted her latest publicity stunt in DC with an honorific article on the front page of the Style section headlined "Yoko Ono's Peaceful Message Takes Root." Jessica Dawson didn't mention how this alleged…
Rosie O'Donnell, New York Times Honored For Liberal Bias By GLAAD
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) began its spring season of announcing its annual GLAAD Media Awards for pro-gay journalism last week at the Marriott Marquis in New York (thanks in part to 100 donors, including "Platinum Underwriter" Time Warner). Other ceremonies will follow in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Miami, but the bulk of their awards were celebrated in New York…
WaPo Accentuates the Negative in McCaffrey Iraq Report
As an NBC military affairs analyst, retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey is a familar face to many Americans. McCaffrey also serves as an adjunct professor at West Point, and in that capacity recently wrote an eight-page paper on the situation in Iraq based on a recent visit there. In today's Washington Post, there appears an article by Thomas Ricks, WaPo's Pentagon correspondent, reporting on the…
Post's Birnbaum: Reagan's Tax Cuts Went Too Far
Yesterday's indictment of former Reagan budget director David Stockman was cause enough for the Washington Post's Jeffrey Birnbaum to use Stockman's personal ethical and possibly criminal lapses in the private sector as a way to lodge liberal attacks on the Reagan tax cuts. But that was just the beginning for Birnbaum, who, in a Washington Post chat later that day, said that "without question,…
WashPost Gives Royal Navy Hostage Story Just 51 Words On Day Four of I
Today marks four days since Iran's Revolutionary Guard captured 15 British servicemen in what they claim are Iranian territorial waters. A similar incident in 2004 lasted just three days.Yet the Washington Post, which has never hesitated to front-page negative developments in the war in Iraq, gave just 51 words on page A8 to the ongoing detention of 15 British servicemen.By contrast, the March…
Post's Kurtz Sees 'Subtle Racism' In Immigrant Mortgage 'Victim' Story
During his online "Critiquing the Media" chat on Monday, Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz agreed with criticism that today's story on immigrant "victims" of mortgage lenders didn't seem to assume that borrowers are in any way responsible for failing to make their mortgage payments. He even agreed with the online questioner's suggestion there was "subtle racism" in the tone of the story…
