The Washington Post’s ‘fair and balanced’ op-ed page: four conservatives and David Broder.
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By on Jun 26th, 2008 at 9:55 am
The Washington Post’s ‘fair and balanced’ op-ed page: four conservatives and David Broder.
Belying any claim to ideological balance, the Washington Post’s opinion page today is firmly tilted to the right with a neoconservative Iraq war architect, two movement conservatives, and an opponent of cap-and-trade. The closest thing to a nominal “liberal” is David Broder, who is seen by many liberals as being the “embodiment of Beltway values.” Here’s how the page is advertised on the frontpage of the Post’s website:
Though Dana Milbank’s column is advertised as part of the opinion section, it’s not actually on the op-ed page. It’s carried on page A3 of the news section.
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TP, thanks for the thread, but this is old news. We have known this for a L O N G time. Any paper that prints Perle and Novak has NO credibility.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:58 amBut wait! There’s a Tom Toles cartoon! Isn’t that enough token liberalism?
I didn’t know that WaPo was bought by Murdoch. Or maybe they’re trying to out-Moonie the Times.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:01 amWhere’s Froomkin?
June 26th, 2008 at 10:09 amAnd what’s with all of these online polls?! I think the best one is http://www.votenic.com, but all of them are different!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:10 amHas anyone seen this from The New York Post regarding Lara Logan?
June 26th, 2008 at 10:22 amNovak, Broder, Will and Perle - a Mount Rushmore of pompous Neanderthals.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:26 amYup, I’m sure rogerse would be just fine if the Obama administration only spoke with MSNBC.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:28 amrogerse chimes in to remind us that he is still a quivering sissy afraid of freedom and American values
terrorism only works on the terrified
stop falling for the terrorism from the white house
rogerse is just another typical republican coward
June 26th, 2008 at 10:28 amrogerse Says:
Yup, and I’m sure tp would be just fine if the opinion page was liberal…
No, just a bit more balanced would do nicely.
When you have NeoCons as the majority of your op-ed writers, you get that slant.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:28 amI would submit that ‘Too Much Hot Air’ describes the paper, those writing in it, and the Republic Party in general.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:32 amI go to the WaPo website daily - - in order to be connected to Dan Froomkin in the afternoon. Always worth the trip.
He’ll usually connect me to the best cartoons as well.
From a former WaPo paperboy and fan of the JPSouza WaPo march. That’s about it.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:33 amSo funny!
June 26th, 2008 at 10:35 amrogerse is afraid of news, which is why he prefers uninformed opinion
we should feel sorry for people like rogerse, imagine trying to live your life when you are always scared to death of everything that you don’t understand (and, obviously by his posts, that is quite a lot)
it must suck to be that big of a sniveling coward
June 26th, 2008 at 10:43 amEvery time I hear the phrase ‘fair and balanced,’ I want to puke. They are sucking the meaning out of those words, too.
June 26th, 2008 at 10:48 amRoger2,
Let me guess; you watch and believe Faux NoNooz, CNN, read the NY Post and anything that Focus on the Family send you, right?
June 26th, 2008 at 10:51 amFor once Novak is right.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:02 amrogerx2, what part of the ThinkProgress report is untrue?
Are you saying that we are not entitled to our opinion that a newspaper opinion page have more diverse opinions?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:07 amThe Post was once a truly world class paper. If politics was your interest, it was more important than the Times. Now it is a third rate rag. On hard times, it is probably going to founder. Pity, that to happen in one generation. I look for it to be absorbed by cult leader Sun Moon. Then the gooper bootlicking of this wacko will start in earnest.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:14 amI too, remember when the Washington Post was a respected paper, encouraged INVESTIGATIVE reporting. Like Watergate ? Alas, this paper along with so much of the media is pandering to easy reading no thinking required.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:17 amrogerease - you see no pattern of this administration stifling any dissent or opposing opinions to their policies? You can’t see your Bill of Rights washing away like sand ? You think nothing is wrong with a President not owning up to the failures of 9/11 ? Refusing to answer questions unless his buddy held hands with him and no oaths required? Your man uses terror to control the masses and you agree ?
June 26th, 2008 at 11:40 amI don’t mind if they have right-leaning opinion, but people like Richard Perle have zero credibility on anything. Those are the opinions I have a problem with (the ones that have been wrong about everything, and whose goal is not to inform or debate, but to misinform and spread propaganda). Perle is one of the neo-cons who told us the Iraq War would take months, that Iraqis would love our invasion, that Saddam was linked to Al Qaeda, and that, at most, we would need 40,000 troops for this cake-walk. He basically forced General Shinseki into early retirement because he said more troops were needed.
If someone was so completely wrong about an issue, why would you continue to go to them for further opinions about the same topic? How do they have any credibility?
Being one of the architects of the war, Perle also has a total conflict of interest on the issue.
June 26th, 2008 at 11:49 amI wish TP would give us some context on articles like this.
For instance: does the WaPo have days on which all of the opinions offered are progressive ones? That’s an important question to look at.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:20 pmLeonard Downie Jr. said yesterday he is stepping down as The Washington Post’s executive editor, Downie, 66, said his last day will be Sept. 8.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pmThey should all follow his lead and let us begin a new day in journalism - what we have seen in the past 20 years is an insult to anyone in the field.
The Washington Post, New York Times and Los Angeles Times are all owned by Zionist traitors. Any questions?
June 26th, 2008 at 3:42 pmAbout a month ago, I went to WashPost to check out Dan Froomkin’s latest excellent op-ed, but he was no longer listed on the op-ed page, just a bunch of right-wing hot-air artists.
So, I typed Froomkin into the WashPost search field, and tracked down his articles. Plus, I bookmarked this search result, so now to find Froomkin’s latest excellent article, I just have to click this bookmark.
I figure Froomkin’s articles get far more hits than any of the right-wing hot-air articles, so wondered why WashPost was, in essence, censoring him by making it more difficult to find his articles. Oh right, right-wingers do love themselves some censorship, yep, yep. Creeps. Dangerous creeps. Dangerous, un-patriotic creeps.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:11 pmConservatives’ idea of balance means 4 conservatives and zero liberals, but they’d still cry out that the least right-wing of those conservatives would be liberal…
June 26th, 2008 at 6:16 pmMilbank’s probably being punished for appearing on KO’s show one too many times…
June 27th, 2008 at 2:47 am