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delong.typepad.com - 2/20/2009
Fire Washington Post Ombudsman Andy Alexander This Morning
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The latest Washington Post employee to show that he has no business at all in journalism is "ombudsman" Andy Alexander--who should be run out of town this morning, if not sooner. Let's turn the microphone over to Hilzoy:: Obsidian Wings: The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing ...
Washington Post Defends George Will: The Editorial Page ‘Checks Facts To The Fullest Extent Possible’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/20/2009
Washington Post Defends George Will: The Editorial Page ‘Checks Facts To The Fullest Extent ...
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — The Washington Post “multi-layer editorial process,” via The Onion. George Will’s recent “global cooling” column contained several... demonstrable falsehoods . Despite waves of criticism, George Will and Post opinion ... (more) Washington Post Defends George Will: The Editorial Page ...

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washingtonmonthly.com - 2/20/2009
The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process"
— washingtonmonthly.com — The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process" I haven't written about George Will's factually challenged column from last... Sunday, but I have been following the various refutations of mistakes he made. I have also been following the various ... (more) The Washington Post's "Multi-Layer Editing Process"

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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 2/22/2009
A Suggested Correction For Will’s ‘Dark Green Doomsayers’ Column
— wonkroom.thinkprogress.org — The following has been sent to Autumn Brewington, op-ed page editor for the Washington Post, Fred Hiatt,... editorial page editor of The Washington Post, Alan Shearer, editorial director of The Washington Post Writers Group, and Andy Alexander, ... (more) A Suggested Correction For Will’s ‘Dark Green ...

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Angry Bear:  500,000 = 0 ?

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500,000 = 0 ?
Angry Bear — Robert Waldmann In my childhood and teens I counted on The Washington Post (motto "All the President's Men. If you liked the movie, you'll love the newspaper," so now I guess I will have to relearn mathematics to adapt to the fact that 500,000 = 0. Via DeLong Via Hilzoy In defence of George Will's claim "According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979." Post ombudsman Andy Alexander provided this link http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/global.sea.ice.area.pdf to a ...

WaPo-leeze
Lawyers, Guns and Money — ... Either way, the Post just provided editorial space to a famously discredited proponent of a badly-conceived war in Iraq -- space that was subsequently used to draw a pair of bad-faith analogies to the current administration's policy toward Iran. I'm sure Andy Alexander will leap to Wolfowitz's defense, however, with a reminder of the multi-layer editing and fact-checking procedures his paper applies to the stable of right wing columnists in their employ. ...

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Post Ombudsman Responds, Unconvincingly, On Will Column
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/20/2009 — After days of radio silence from the Washington Post , the paper's ombudsman, Andy Alexander, has sent out the following statement (via Think Progress) about the George Will column that misrepresented the facts on global warming: Thank you for your ...
Letter to the Washington Post
WWW.samefacts.com 2/21/2009 — Andy Alexander is the Washington Post ombudsman who wrote the absurd defense of George Will's essay in global-warming denialism, a defense torn to shreds by Hilzoy. Alexander's action is even less defensible than Will's, and casts a shadow over every ...
Washington Post Ombudsman Compounds Global Warming Misinformation In Response To Reader Protests Over Will's Column — Crooks and Liars
Lucky Andy Alexander. Even before he introduced himself as the new Washington Post Ombudsman , replacing the embattled Deborah Howell, he has already stepped into a rather steaming pile of dung. Sadly, instead of discerning the truth for the readers of Washington Post, Alexander opted to ...
Clark Hoyt vs. Andy Alexander — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
In striking contrast to the mendacious hackwork of Andy Alexander at the Washington Post , the New York Times has a real ombudsman in Clark Hoyt: The Public Editor - They Still Have the Nixon Tapes to Kick Around : WITH the movie “Frost/Nixon” reviving memories of Watergate, ...
A Suggested Correction For Will’s ‘Dark Green Doomsayers’ Column — Wonk Room
The following has been sent to Autumn Brewington, op-ed page editor for the Washington Post, Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor of The Washington Post, Alan Shearer, editorial director of The Washington Post Writers Group, and Andy Alexander, Washington Post ombudsman. To the editors of the ...
Mark Kleiman’s Letter to Andy Alexander — Matthew Yglesias
I liked Mark Kleiman’s letter to Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander regarded George Will’s climate change misrepresentations and the Post ’s odd defense of it very much. I think it’s important that people concerned about this issue do likewise and write in to ...
Post Ombudsman Responds, Unconvincingly, On Will Column — The Hollywood Liberal
Post Ombudsman Responds, Unconvincingly, On Will Column After days of radio silence from the Washington Post, the paper's ombudsman, Andy Alexander, has sent out the following statement (via Think Progress) about the George Will column that misrepresented the facts on global warming: Thank you ...
WaPo's Alexander starts ombud job — Michael Calderone's Blog
Former Cox bureau chief Andy Alexander officially begins his tenure as Washington Post ombudsman this Sunday. In gearing up for the big day, Alexander informed staff that he's not God, the devil, "an oracle," or "someone of journalistic eminence." So with all that out ...
Wash. Post defends George Will’s climate change denial: We ‘check facts to the fullest extent possible.’ — Think Progress
The Washington Post has refused to run corrections on George Will’s recent “global cooling” column , despite its “stunning, boneheaded, egregious errors .” In response to a ThinkProgress request, Washington Post ombudsman Andy Alexander “ sought clarification ...