Washington Post

On Friday, the Washington Post published a front-page article concerning two new books coming out in June about Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York). Both apparently include some rather unflattering revelations about the Democrat presidential candidate. Later that day, Politico columnist Ben Smith suggested that the Clinton campaign might have given the Post a copy of one of the books with the…

If the Senate released a major study on Friday with information suggesting that a key Republican might have committed perjury, would the media report it?Probably every hour on the hour, with front-page headlines Saturday morning, correct?Well, the Senate issued a lengthy analysis on pre-Iraq war intelligence Friday, and in it was information contradicting Valerie Plame Wilson’s sworn testimony…

Critical Update and Correction at End of PostA headline at NewsBusters Thursday asked, “Will Media Report Al Qaeda Torture Manual With Same Zeal as Abu Ghraib?”The answer: No!In fact, from what I can tell by looking at LexisNexis, Google News, and closed-captioning dumps, the only media outlet in the nation that covered this story was Fox News’ “Hannity & Colmes.”This is despite the fact that…

The Washington Post reports on the top of the front page Friday that it's been given copies of the new Hillary biographies by former Post star Carl Bernstein and New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don van Natta. Since they're media-elite fixtures and not "ideological enemies,"  they "could be harder to dismiss," the Post says. Reporters Peter Baker and John Solomon explained: "The Hillary…

During Monica Goodling's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee testimony Dem congressman Steven Cohen of Tennessee quizzed the former Justice Department official regarding her Christian faith and the law school at Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson, that she attended.An internet search reveals brief references to the interrogation in articles by Dana Milbank in the Washington…

Imagine for a moment that a high-ranking Republican was accused by a Democrat of violating House rules in order to get a $23 million earmark approved for his district. Would the media report it?Probably on front-pages all across the country, and on morning and evening network newscasts for days, right?Well, last Thursday evening, Politico reported (emphasis added throughout):

It has been over three weeks since the fundamental claim of the "Food Stamp Challenge" was debunked, first by Mona Charen in her syndicated column, then in more detail by yours truly (at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog). Yet the "Food Stamp Challenge" has spread. As noted in this NPR report from April 23, it all started in Oregon. That state's governor, Ted Kulongoski, joined in and put on quite a…

If the six men charged with planning to attack Fort Dix a few weeks ago all had ties to mosques in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia, would this be newsworthy?Well, America’s press outlets didn’t seem to think so, for with little exception, this bit of information went largely unreported.In fact, according to Google news and LexisNexis searches, the only major outlet to report both mosques…

In today's Washington Post, staff writer Carol Leonnig heavily skewed in favor of the District of Columbia gun ban. The stringent 1976 gun law was overturned earlier this year by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals but may be appealed to the Supreme Court. Notice the skew of the article in favor of the D.C. government's position in the first two paragraphs of "Gun Ban Ruling…

A cartoon in the May 13 "Sunday Briefing" on page F2 of the Washington Post furthered a left-wing talking point against "Big Oil" that a comprehensive study by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) debunked last year: that oil companies artificially manipulate gas prices by squeezing supply.A cartoon from the Newark Star-Ledger's Drew Sheneman depicts a man fueling his car asking a cigar-smoking "…