Washington Post Is Biased, According To The Washington Post

Yep, the Washington Post's own ombudsman has examined the evidence and has found his paper guilty of left-wing bias.


"Many readers, after reading the actual PDB text that was reproduced on Page A6, angrily objected to this phrasing; one described the story as "an egregious misrepresentation of what was presented to the president." Why do this "other than to mislead the casual reader into thinking that the words in the story, 'a building in lower Manhattan,' [were] meant to be the World Trade Center?" This distinction, adds another, "goes to the heart of how specific this memo was, and how President Bush reacted to it."

The Post story did report, toward the end, that the PDB item about surveillance grew out of FBI interviews of tourists from Yemen who were taking pictures of the Foley Square courthouse in downtown New York. This, reporters explain, is why their reference was to one building. And because that building is near what turned out to be Ground Zero, it was important because it gave at least some reason to expect an attack in that area."



"These are tense times. News, in its purest form, is very powerful. Maybe Post editors would edit the stories and choose the picture in the same way if they had it to do again. But it seems to me that these complaints, even if some of them reflect political views, are valid criticisms and worth learning from."