Drudge: 'Hell Day as Press Turns Vicious' on Federal Budget
December 13th, 2007 5:28 PM
This is up on Drudge at the moment: Yes, the viciousness is being directed at Democrats for not being spendthrift enough. It's too early to tell whether President Bush and congressional Republicans have outmaneuvered the Democratic congressional majority, but it's looking that way. Old Media doesn't like it, and their inability to successfully buck up their side, one bit. In the Washington Post'…
WaPo Ombudsman Offers Weak Defense on Bilal Hussein Reporting
December 13th, 2007 4:31 PM
Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell served up a flimsy excuse to a concerned reader wondering why the Post doesn't have Post staffers reporting on the Bilal Hussein controversy, rather than just running AP wire stories. Hussein worked for AP as a photographer. Blogger Scott Johnson shared the reader's e-mail and Howell's reply, then added that even if one accepts Howell's excuse, there's no…
Gore Wins Nobel Prize for Sexy
December 12th, 2007 5:18 PM
Al Gore, the tall, "adorable," "sexy," "very hot Nobel Peace Prize winner," ... "The Man." It was the ultimate in Al Gore adoration, all the way from Oslo, Norway, via The Washington Post's Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan. Scottish singer KT Tunstall gushed over Gore's "expressive, arched, well-groomed" eyebrows. Actress Uma Thurman said watching the "Inconvenient Truth" pedagogue "following his…
WaPo Ignores Republican Criticism of Lack of Drilling in Energy Bill
December 7th, 2007 2:34 PM
Washington Post staffers Jonathan Weisman and Steven Mufson gaver readers of the December 7 paper an article on a "comprehensive energy bill" that passed the House of Representatives without delving into Republican criticism that the bill lacks any provision to produce or procure more energy domestically, such as from interior and off-shore natural gas and oil reserves. Weisman and Mufson noted…
Golden Compost: Washington Post Goes Soft On Film's Director
December 6th, 2007 2:03 PM
Sometimes, newspapers bury the lede on purpose. Today’s Exhibit A? The Washington Post Style section profile of Chris Weitz, the director of the new anti-religious movie The Golden Compass. The Post’s anodyne headline was "‘Golden Compass’ Director Seeks True North." David Segal’s story takes eight paragraphs and a sentence before it gets to the point, why the publicity: The trilogy of books…
UAE Impounded Iran-bound 'Hazardous Materials'; Nothing Reported in Wa
December 5th, 2007 3:31 PM
The Financial Times (FT) is reporting that an Iran-bound ship seized by the United Arab Emirates last month "contained materials banned by UN Security Council resolutions 1737 and 1747, while the purchaser of the materials has been barred by the same resolutions."Those resolutions were put in place, FT writers Simeon Kerr and Najmeh Bozorgmehr noted in their December 5 article, "to curtail its […
Libs in Love: WaPo's Sloppy Wet Kiss for Kucinich Plastered on Style P
December 5th, 2007 12:04 PM
Updated with kiss photo (14:48 Eastern)I highly doubt that readers of the Washington Post enjoying the morning paper over a steaming cup of coffee deserve to flip to the Style section only to be greeted by a huge photo of Dennis and Elizabeth Kucinich making out.Of course the front page photo -- unfortunately, or fortunately depending on your perspective, I couldn't find it online -- wasn't the…
Cantwell Aide’s Sex Scandal Gets Little Press Coverage
December 5th, 2007 10:38 AM
It must be wonderful to be a Democrat and know that your indiscretions are very unlikely to get much attention by media minions only willing to cover the crimes and shortcomings of folks on the opposite side of the aisle. Take for example James Michael McHaney, an aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) who NewsBusters reported had been arrested last Friday for trying to lure a thirteen-year-old…
