Washington Post’s ‘fair and balanced’ op-ed page.
By on Dec 6th, 2007 at 10:10 am
Washington Post’s ‘fair and balanced’ op-ed page.
Gracing the Washington Post’s opinion page today are two former Bush administration officials, two movement conservatives and a journalist-turned-columnist warning that “47 million uninsured” isn’t “our biggest health-care problem.” Hardly anyone’s idea of balance. Here’s how the page is advertised on the frontpage of the Post’s website:
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Don’t forget the NYTimes–they had the anti-NIE op-ed today, too.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:16 amOf course, to those beholden to the Pharmaceutical lobby, the biggest problem is product liability litigation.
Man, I’m dead tired of the phuckers.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:16 amNice.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:16 amWaPo, a fair and balanced newspaper of our time, right up there with the Washington Times.
Hey, it’s two neo-cons vs. two paleocons. For the Wapo, that’s journalistic balance.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:17 amgreat, another republican who wants to molest someone…
December 6th, 2007 at 10:17 amNow we get to see whose side the MSM is on and where their bread is buttered. They’ll out themselves handily with how they choose to cover this blistering NIE report and scathing indictment of the bush administration.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:17 amWhy can’t the National Enquirer cover politics?
December 6th, 2007 at 10:18 ambobwurst – Isn’t molester and republican one in the same? They want to molest something or someone all of the time. It’s either young men or programs to benefit the people.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:18 amThe most important thing for the UNited staes is making sure your people have good health
Were sick of stories coming out the US on our news channels of kids dying of simple toothaches and leading to massive absesses,
December 6th, 2007 at 10:19 amWhen americans discover the truth, they can hold these newspapers on charges of propaganda & treason along with the bushies.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:19 amThese days, the National Enquirer has more credibility than the msm.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:20 amJust to be fair to the Washington Post. Yesterday, they had four Op-Eds that argued the other side. So it is fair, just on seperate days.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/opinions/index_20071205.html
I’m a fan of TP, but I’m noticing recently that they’re moving closer to conservative-style attach methods. Be more objective.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:21 amIf I were editor of a newspaper today I’d be very careful about what I publish on what will turn out to be bush’s fall from the white house. The people are sick of spin which happens to be another word for lie. Once something is put in print and circulated, it becomes prima facie evidence. We are looking at the line drawn in the sand between the fascist media and the people. The people will win if by no other method than boycotting the MSM entirely and effectively shutting them down.
Prima facie evidence coupled with the owners/editors/writers who intentional perpetuate the “lie” results in crimes against the people and prison time.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:22 amPlease please please end the writer’s strike so that we can get the Daily Show and the Colbert Report back on the task of presenting REAL news to the public.
It’s ironic that the MSM responded to Stewart’s shot across the media’s bow on Crossfire years ago not by re-examining itself and moving back toward its journalistic roots, but entrenched itself even deeper into the back pockets of the established elite.
That’s why the media fears/hates blogs with a passion. Journalism isn’t about going to College and earning a degree, its about asking the tough questions and damn the consequences.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:23 amso this is more proof republicans LOVE molestation….. we know. we know.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:23 amcoincidence? Dr. Daniel Amen suggests that all presidential candidates be scanned to detect early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. I think that Bush’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis was made by his recent ‘I don’t remember’ comments. Maybe what we’re looking at here is mental disease and not just stupidity.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:28 amTP this is what the UK had on the news yesterday ,,, the unsafe areas of Afghanistan for Aid workers all on 2 maps , before and after ,,,,,, the difference is unreal
Leaked aid map of Afghanistan reveals expansion of no-go zones
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3000067.ece
December 6th, 2007 at 10:28 amSo Chimp escapes criminal prosecution by a mental disorder claim and Darth excapes criminal prosecution due to heart problems. Either way I think these two neocon-fascists will be out of the white house before 09.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:29 am#12 – “I’m a fan of TP, but I’m noticing recently that they’re moving closer to conservative-style attach methods. Be more objective.” Comment by Jason — December 6, 2007 @ 10:21 am
I have yet to see anyone banned for having an opinion opposite from TP’s. It’s only people who violate the Terms of Use.
It’s the Redstate/Freeper/Limbaugh cabal who ban anyone who refuses to swig the kool-aide and dares to opine anything other than their conserva-fascist approved talking points.
TP isn’t as bad as the right-whiners are. Yet. . . . . . ;-)
December 6th, 2007 at 10:30 amWhat’s wrong? The Washington Post Op-ed page is balanced between the extreme fringe far right, and the bat$h!t crazy lunatic right.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:34 amWashington Post tag line:
“The propaganda arm of right wing extremists.’
they can have it for free.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:36 amHere’s a clue: Bolton looks into the mirror each morning and decides to go out into the world without shaving off the wacky mustache. Need I say more?
We all already know that the WaPo has been assimilated.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:37 amAnd this is the “liberal” MSM that the wingnuts are forever whining about?
December 6th, 2007 at 10:38 amWhat liberal media?
December 6th, 2007 at 10:43 amCaptain Kangaroo’s still alive?
December 6th, 2007 at 10:45 amWilfred Brimley looks GREAT! Lost quite a bit of weight.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:46 am3-to-1 odds that the top of Bolton’s head is as bald as a newborn baby’s behind. That looks like one cheap toupee he’s wearing. That dust-gatherer below his nose could be a fake, too.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:46 amThe Washington Post has been turned into complete garbage. Except for Froomkin.
Jason, only an idiot would deny that the WaPo is a hard right propaganda sheet that does little more than publish White House press releases.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:46 amMuppet-face Bolton must be very upset about Bush appeasing Kim Jong Il. Bush sent Lil’ Kim a mushy love letter recently.
Bush is rewarding on of the leaders of the Axis of Evil!
-GSD
December 6th, 2007 at 10:50 amOn the page that Jason notes there is a piece by David Ignatious who was a war pimping whore and also Dean David Broder, a personal friend of Karl Roves who eats quail wings and sausage at the Rove house and says how much he ‘likes’ Karl Rove.
A real lefty crew indeed.
-GSD
December 6th, 2007 at 10:51 amThe quote from Bolton is revealing. “an essentially unmolested fashion”. Is that the job of the United States – to be the world’s “molester”? If so, these Republican’s sure are qualified.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:54 amAnti Bush = Pro USA.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:55 am16 separate agencies compiled the NIE.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:56 amComment by John Kerry — December 6, 2007 @ 10:51 am
The facts directly contradict my beliefs in the father (Reagan) the son (Bush II) and the holy ghost (Rush) thus it must be false.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:59 amall anti Bush
Welcome to the majority.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:00 amIt’s ironic that the MSM responded to Stewart’s shot across the media’s bow on Crossfire years ago not by re-examining itself and moving back toward its journalistic roots, but entrenched itself even deeper into the back pockets of the established elite.
That’s why the media fears/hates blogs with a passion. Journalism isn’t about going to College and earning a degree, its about asking the tough questions and damn the consequences.
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Tee Vee Journalists all seem to have nice suits, book deals, etc. Tony Snow had to leave a job at the white house because the low 6 figure salary was too financially constricting.
“Commentary” is the new “Journalism”
December 6th, 2007 at 11:11 amBolten sez: I am the walrus. goo-goo ga joob
December 6th, 2007 at 11:12 amGood reason to surf rather that buy print.
And where are the Democrats? Hiding? Seems that they make no news or just try to disappear behind failed attempts to follow up on subpoenas.
Republicans sell lies. Democrats sell nothing.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:15 amWell, I guess if one end of a teeter-totter is resting on the ground, you could conceivably call that “balance”…
December 6th, 2007 at 11:25 amNo one with a mustache and haircut like that should be allowed to opine in the Post. Incidentally, who wins in a fist fight between WP op-eders? Ignatius? Eugene Robinson?
Who you guys like and why? Bring it?
http://www.tshirtinsurgency.com
December 6th, 2007 at 12:07 pmLooks like it’s time for another Corporo-Fascist “journalist” ethics conference.
I’ll go get the smelling salts, I anticipate many cases of the vapors over there!
December 6th, 2007 at 2:41 pmSince when was “opinion” supposed to be “fair and balanced”? That’s the whole point of an Op/Ed page – to be unfair and unbalanced. Granted, the WP seems to have an inherent lean in general, but calling them “biased” about their opinion page is a bit of a reach….
December 6th, 2007 at 6:10 pmBolton is a very wise man who has studied evil and understands the true goals of Irans 7th century based leaders who women should be the slaves of men and bow to them like hitler wanted the “mud people” to bow to him. Nobody wants war including conservatives but to Have Peace at the cost of wishful thinking is the same as the moron Neville chamberlain declaring peace in our time while hitler was planning to kill 1 billion Jews and countless millions of others.
December 7th, 2007 at 9:12 amTony Snow did not leave cause the pay was bad he is dealing a serous
December 7th, 2007 at 9:16 amillness and does not want to waste time dealing with the liberal media who have made up their minds to support the democrats and Hate Jews and western civilization.