Washington Post Ethics

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Comments

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

DUR DE DUR LIBRUL MEDUZ R BAD

[merig00.livejournal.com]

very bady :)
http://media.washingtonexaminer.com/images/washington-post-white-house-health-care-lobbyists.png

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Citing rightard media mouthpiece as proof of alleged media bias in other publications? Priceless.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Hmm did you even open the link?

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Of course I did. Your point?

[merig00.livejournal.com]

It's just a picture of the Washington Post flier. I haven't cited any "rightard media"

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Hosted on a server owned by rightard media, and therefore a probable photoshop.

However, I see nothing on said flyer that supports the whine expressed in your comic, so maybe not.

[annainthecity.livejournal.com]

To be fair, the original story was done by Politico and then in the Post itself, and the flyer is not Photoshopped (sadly). The Post has been eating crow on this for a week now.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

I don't see the problem.
Sounds like partisan flailing to me.

[annainthecity.livejournal.com]

When an independent media organization starts selling access to politicians for lobbyists and the like, in order to (in their own words) influence policy, it's disgusting across all party lines.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

And it is done in the home of the CEO

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

*shrug*
That's how Washington is.
Unless you come down on all of it, singling this out is similarly hypocritical.

[annainthecity.livejournal.com]

Well, I live and work in Washington and I am yet to see a newspaper do something like this. The lobby culture is ridiculous here, no argument, but for a news organization to do this, it's a new one as far as I know. And it deserves to be singled out because the media's job is to keep politicians honest and while newspapers are no longer what they used to be, this is the first time I've seen something this blatant.

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

This deserves to be singled out. It's disgusting.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

It all deserves to be squashed, but I see your point.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

The Washington Post hasn't been Liberal Media for a good number of years now anyway, right?

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

In reality? No.

According to rightards?
They'll never forgive them for Watergate.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Alrighty. I just want to make sure that WaPo is still in reality right leaning, regardless of what people who shake and flail about "liberal media" claim.

As long as we know this is the equivalent of

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

squidb0i, please don't defend the indefensible.

The Washington Post was 100% in the wrong wrong wrong here. This is exactly the type of thing we shouldn't turn a blind eye to.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's defending the indefensible as much as WaPo not being what would even count as a liberal media outlet.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

and who said anything about liberal media outlets in this cartoon?

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

there is absolutely no dialogue about how the mainstream media is liberally biased.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

You've got to ask squidb0i. He's the one who started it.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Why would I ask him? I'm not the one who wants an answer; you do.

[borgseawolf.livejournal.com]

I dont get it

[merig00.livejournal.com]

you haven't heard about the washington post "salon" story?

[busy-bee-l.livejournal.com]

Enlighten us oh the wise one :)

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Here's the story from Post themselves: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603761.html

And this is the flier in question: http://media.washingtonexaminer.com/images/washington-post-white-house-health-care-lobbyists.png

[borgseawolf.livejournal.com]

Not really. Didn't get through the Across-the-Atlantic importance filter...

[merig00.livejournal.com]

Here's the story from Post themselves: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/06/AR2009070603761.html

And this is the flier in question: http://media.washingtonexaminer.com/images/washington-post-white-house-health-care-lobbyists.png

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

It's funny because a series of drunken Viagra pills are watching two fat balding white men smoke in bed.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

yeap as always you are 100% right to the point.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

It's hard always being right, but I do it out of love.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

i know... i know. keep up the good work.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

Just keep posting these awesome cartoons!!!

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

This story made me pissed/ill when I read it last week (oddly enough, I only found out about it via some liberal bloggers' Twitter accounts!)... the paper that help expose Watergate has now sold out completely.

Hopefully this helps conservatives realize what us liberals have been saying for years... that the REAL bias in the media today is a corporate one, and a pro-status quo/establishment one.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

And what were the conservatives saying all this time?

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

That there was a 'liberal media' bias.

[merig00.livejournal.com]

well and if the corporations and establishment are liberal leaning at this point?

Actually a bit offtopic but I'd like to hear your thoughts on recent video of Helen Thomas vs. Robert Gibbs :D

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

The media is NOT liberal. You don't see the media advocating for bank nationalizations or single-payer health-care or for a carbon tax or for an end to tax cuts or etc etc etc. But I do see them firing Dan Froomkin (at the Wash Post) for being too liberal and I do see them organizing secret dinners for lobbyists (who, please note, are on the conservative side of the debate on issues like health-care and the rest). That's a corporate, status-quo bias... not a bias for liberalism or progressives or for change.

(*sidenote: for anyone who still buys the 'liberal media' myth... watch this documentary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP3gYH9TYxU))

And you think corporations and the establishment are liberal-leaning? Well seeing as how I'm a liberal and all I see are corporations and the establishment lobbying day and night against the stuff I want and believe in, I'll say a big fat 'no' to that suggestion.

Finally... the Helen Thomas/Gibbs thing. In pretty much any fight between Helen Thomas and a White House press secretary, it is probably always safe to assume the correct side is Helen Thomas. And it was here as well. I remember seeing her spar with Scott McClellan during the Bush years, and his tenure as Press Secretary went on, you could see in his eyes he realized he was just defending the indefensible and spouting bullshit (his post-career revelations have backed this up). And you can already see in Gibbs' eyes those early signs... particularly when asked to explain why the White House is walking back its promises on Don't Ask Don't Tell and gay rights.

Helen Thomas is a national treasure and a quality journalist.

the real difference here

[dwer.livejournal.com]

is that if it were the WSJ selling access to Bush officials, this cartoon wouldn't exist.

What WaPo did is wrong. They should be punished.

Re: the real difference here

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Wut he sed goaz fr me to

[red-pill.livejournal.com]

i get lobbyist in bed with goverment...and then i get lost. sorry. whats this about?

[merig00.livejournal.com]

i gave several links below in comments