Comments on: WaPo Now Admits to “Salon” Scandal (Guess It’s No Longer Just a Misundertanding)

By: wbboei

wbboei — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:03:30 +0000

Correct. We are not interested in their biased opinons, NOR DO WE TRUST THAT THEY WILL PROVIDE BOTH SIDES OF THE STORY. IT IS THEIR CONCOMMITANT TENDENCY TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE AND/OR STORIES WHICH REFUTE THEIR ONE SIDED NARRATIVES that is even more reprehensible. For a newspaper that never fails to report the smallest issue for Obambis opponents, how could they miss the handshake snub in Russia? Or to report on the strategic advantage of what Bambi is preparing to give away to Russia, except for the Krauthammer editorial. Those facts are not presented, and that kind of censorship of relevant evidence is their gravest transgression, given the fact that the future of our county is at risk.

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:34:03 +0000

I think more and more people are coming to the realization that good leadership is less about the (D) or (R) after someone’s name, but their principles and willingness to fight for the people they serve, rather than serving a corporate machine or further growing an oligarchy.

The media did not want to admit to this, but that is, at least in part, was is happening with the tea parties.

By: foxyladi14

foxyladi14 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:33:13 +0000

indeed.

By: OMG

OMG — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:35:18 +0000

Check this out.
“For Ghana, Obama’s visit will be a celebration of another milestone in African history as it hosts the first-ever African-American President on this presidential visit to the continent of his birth.” Ghana news.

http://www.modernghana.com/newsp/226379/1/pagenum1/history-beckons-as-prez-obama-arrives-tomorrow.html#continue

By: Ani

Ani — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:24:07 +0000

Amen. Unfortunately, I’m not seeing any major news organization with the guts to be first. And no, FOX news doesn’t count because they are considered conservative anyway and the left will not believe anything they say, even if they are telling the truth.

By: jessiebritton

jessiebritton — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:08:25 +0000

WaPo has been in the tank for Obama since day one. Adding too that problem, our daily newspaper carries many of the WaPo & NYT articles. Circulation is down in our paper as well and they don’t seem to understand we not interested in their biased opinions.

By: Cahil

Cahil — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:46:57 +0000

Thanks for this article.

The media is not supposed to be an insider organization. It’s supposed to always be critical and suspicious of government.

If more of them, and especially the major papers, gave up their “access” and did some honest, investigative reporting, others would follow suit, and those that didn’t would become irrelevant.

By: standard

standard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:25:37 +0000

Could it be any worse than the whoring of the NYT during the primaries?L

By: elizabethrc

elizabethrc — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:36:10 +0000

I hope that the folks at WaPo don’t think that this obscene abuse is going to increase readership. I suspect it will be quite the opposite and there are many there who need to resign immediately, starting at the top.

By: elizabethrc

elizabethrc — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:33:23 +0000

Doesn’t anyone out there in medialand and government realize that there is a price to pay at some point for all of this insiderness and corruption?
I hear more anger every day from people I meet and I know that it is growing. It now has less to do with party than with politicians and cronyism.
Every country has had it’s revolution and although we’ve supposedly had ours, I think it’s a mistake to be complacent about what’s happening. It could happen again in America and that really scares me.

By: Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:19:49 +0000

Ani, excellent post. Thank you so much for covering this. I had already lost respect for the NYTimes and WaPo, but this was just shocking in its brazenness…

By: Glennmcgahee

Glennmcgahee — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:23:37 +0000

THe result that politicion’s were seeking was the continuation of the PROPAGANDA that we hear, read and see everyday through the war profiteering Corporate Machine that is in charge of our country. We must take our country back. Yea, the July 4th White House picnic is the shocker. How can anyone call themself a journalst that attended that function without saying a peep about it. Chicago has come to Washington. We knew to expect it, I thought it would be more subtle.

By: wbboei

wbboei — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:43:46 +0000

A month ago Kessler wrote an article praising Weymoth saying that under her leadership the paper had returned to being a credible journalistic institution. I told him he was wrong, sent him the artice exposing this washpo-bambi scam and told him he needed to check his sources. I never heard back.

By: wbboei

wbboei — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:39:04 +0000

Very good decision to cancel for that reason. I did the same thing with NYT. Their bias and lack of integrity infects everything they do. Falso in uno, falso in omnibus/

By: typical.white.person

typical.white.person — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:22:58 +0000

Ironic that part of the reason their readership is down is a sense that there is a bias and lack of integrity in their reporting — only to be exacerbated by actions like this one…no wonder the paper is in trouble.

After the last election, I canceled our subscription and I told the Post I was canceling it because they were political hacks with no integrity (a.k.a., Fox News wannabees).