powerlineblog.com - 12/29/2008
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Deborah Howell is the outgoing ombudsman of the Washington Post. Her time in that job will probably best be remembered for the abuse she received from left-wing bloggers and their charming readers on the Post's blog. The lefty response -- "personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech" ...
newsmax.com - 12/22/2008
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newsmax.com —
Two newspapers set the agenda for the rest
of the media: The Washington Post and The New...
York Times. The stories they break, the play they give them, and the way they characterize candidates, events, and issues are usually adopted by both print and ...
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Washington Post Becomes a Fair Newspaper
pajamasmedia.com - 12/24/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
Stratfor has a long essay about how Woodward
and Bernstein — and Deep Throat, now identified as...
then FBI Deputy Director Mark Felt — may have brought down not just Richard Nixon, but, over the longer term, journalism itself. Stratfor ...
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All of Hoover’s Men
blackfive.net - 12/31/2008
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blackfive.net —
The advantage that the jihadis have over the
US in the information war is that the Arab...
governments can direct the coverage to support them while the US can not. In that sense, a commitment to free speech is a tactical disadvantage, though a long term ...
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A Lesson In Civility
Sadly, No! —
... Paul Mirengoff, Powerline’s laziest blogger, is all teary-eyed this morning about the imminent departure of Little Debbie Howell from her position as Ombudsman at the Washington Post. Poor thing, he muses, all she did was say that Jack Abramoff contributed to Democrats (when he hadn’t) and the next thing she knew she was subjected to “personal attacks, the use of profanity and hate speech” from “emotionally disturbed leftists.” ...
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