A Big Story Isn’t Complete Without a Poll Telling People What Their
October 29th, 2005 10:54 PM
Less than 36 hours after the indictments of I. Lewis Libby were announced, America’s first poll results concerning the matter were released just in time for them to be part of all the Sunday political talk shows tomorrow morning.As reported by the Washington Post, the results of a new Washington Post/ABC News survey suggest that:“55 percent of the public believes the Libby case indicates wider…
Woodward Points Out Wilson Found Evidence of Iraq-Niger Deal, Tosses I
October 27th, 2005 10:48 PM
Much to Senator Chris Dodd's consternation on Thursday's Larry King Live on CNN, Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, pointed out a fact rarely mentioned by the mainstream media -- that “most of the analysts at the CIA said that [Joseph] Wilson's findings, when he went to Niger, supported the conclusion that there was some deal with Iraq” for uranium. When…
Washington Post Paints Amazingly Black Picture of Current White House
October 25th, 2005 1:37 AM
Peter Baker and Jim VandeHei of the Washington Post pulled no punches in their front-page article this morning about the challenges currently facing President Bush:“Rarely has a president confronted as many damaging developments that could all come to a head in this week. A special counsel appears poised to indict one or more administration officials within days. Pressure is building on Bush from…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like … Negativity
October 24th, 2005 9:32 AM
It seems to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it? No, not Christmas ads on TV, but the annual media festival of gloom and doom surrounding holiday-related retail sales. This year, it started in August, when temperatures were in the 100-degree range across much of the country. Hurricane Katrina wasn’t even a ripple off the coast of Africa, and CNN was doing a downbeat piece called “…
Internal Washington Post E-Mails Show Paper Editors Wary of Web Succes
October 21st, 2005 10:57 PM
Based on these internal e-mails, it looks like some editors at the Washington Post dead tree edition aren't very happy that the web version of the Post is doing well.
The web version, apparently, is outside their control. It's also growing -- one editor frets it has more readers than the paper version -- and is making money, besides.
More info on the angst is available here.