FNC's Hume Chastises Media for Failing to Point Out How Clinton Fired
March 13th, 2007 9:01 PM
Brit Hume led his Tuesday night Grapevine segment by scolding his media colleagues for how “news stories reporting that the Bush administration had considered firing all 93 U.S. attorneys across the country failed to mention that that is exactly what Bill Clinton did soon after taking office back in 1993.” Hume explained how that was not noted, “even in passing, in front-page stories today in…
WashPost Buries Lede on DC Gun Ban Story
March 11th, 2007 8:47 PM
In the March 11 Washington Post, staff writers Elissa Silverman and Allison Klein took a look at the men and women behind a legal challenge to the Washington, D.C., handgun ban. But in doing so, it seems they buried the lede.Information on one plaintiff came near the end of Silverman and Klein's 25-paragraph story:Dick Heller, 65, said he became involved in the firearms debate in 1997 after he…
WashPost's Dramatic Bias By Omission on Behalf of Rick Kaplan, Bill Ma
March 9th, 2007 7:30 AM
Does the Washington Post practice bias by omission out of sensitivity to fellow liberals? Open to Friday's Style section, and the bias by omission (and delay) is, at least to a conservative, utterly mind-boggling. As Howard Kurtz covered the story of Rick Kaplan arriving at what seems like his 26th appointment at the top of a liberal network or show, when did Kurtz explain that then-ABC producer…
CNSNews.com Scoops Post by One Month on College Admissions Study
March 7th, 2007 6:32 PM
I know print publications tend to move slower than online outlets, but this is ridiculous.On March 6, The Washington Post featured a story by staff writer Darryl Fears entitled "In Diversity Push, Top Universities Enrolling More Black Immigrants." Fears found critics who complain that some university admissions diversity policies end up drawing in more foreign black students at the expense of…
WashPost: Willing to Hike Taxes = 'Maturing' In Office
March 5th, 2007 11:50 AM
"As many political observers see it, [Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William] Howell is maturing into the leadership role he took on four years ago," wrote The Washington Post's Tim Craig in today's paper. And what exactly is developing the Republican speaker into an upstanding young chap? Nothing more than a newfound willingness to raise taxes in the Old Dominion.Here's the first two…
Post Seems to Complain About 'No Option For Failure' In Iraq Plan
March 5th, 2007 1:50 AM
"Bush Iraq Strategy Has No Option for Failure," read the headline on the Washington Post home page when I accessed it at 1:30 this morning. [UPDATE with some thoughts from Captain's Quarters tacked to bottom of post]But is that just a statement of fact or a lament about a lack of a "failure option" for the war in Iraq itself. Here's the blurb that followed teaser headline:Eager to appear…
