Now That the Election’s Over…
Now that the election is over, the FMSM is publishing lots of self-examination articles. This article by Deborah Howell focuses on The Washington Post’s not vetting Obama. This article by Howard Kurtz speaks to the depth of the media’s infatuation with President-Elect Obama.
Here’s the portion of Ms. Howell’s editorial that irritated me the most:
Combine these with the drumbeat of polling stories saying Obama and the Democrats were likely to win, a few Tom Toles cartoons and TV critic Tom Shales’s debate reviews, both are liberals who are paid to offer opinions, and conservatives decided that The Post was cheerleading, especially since they felt the paper hadn’t sufficiently scrutinized Obama.
As I told Ms. Howell in this email, it isn’t just perception that the FMSM didn’t “sufficiently scrutinize Obama.” This isn’t just confined to the Washington Post or to the presidential race either. The Strib’s Lori Sturdevant essentially admitted that they didn’t vet Franken during this Pigs Eye Podcast.
Kurtz’s column is essentially a post-election catalog of the various publications worshipping Obama.
As I told Ms. Howell in my email, nobody vetted Obama until David Freddoso and Stanley Kurtz investigated him. If the Washington Post and other major publications want their readership to stabilize and rise, then they need to stop tilting their reporting in the Democrats’ direction.
If the Washington Post had done their due diligence, Ms. Howell wouldn’t've needed to write a post-election mea culpa editorial.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog