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Lil Debbie Says Washington Post Should Criticize Obama More to Please Conservatives
oxdown.firedoglake.com - 11/11/2008
Lil Debbie Says Washington Post Should Criticize Obama More to Please Conservatives
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Defending "journalism" The Washington Post's Deborah Howell has a long history of sending readers to the dictionary to determine whether the term "ombudsman" entails systematically perverting journalistic standards. But her column today (h/t Julia) proves again the problem is not ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 11/8/2008
Now She Tells Us
— corner.nationalreview.com — From the Washington Post ombudsman, Deborah Howell, in an article headlined "An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage":... The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack of probing issues coverage ... (more) Now She Tells Us

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Right on time!
hotair.com - 11/8/2008
Right on time!
— hotair.com — We have all complained about the pro-Obama tilt in this election cycle. News media consistently gave John... McCain much harsher treatment while refusing to perform the same kind of investigative journalism on Barack Obama, whose thin track record and ... (more) Right on time!

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yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/13/2008
Howell: No Matter How Bad McCain Is, Our Opinion Pages Must Pretend He’s Great
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah Howell calls for less intellectual honesty on the Post ’s opinion pages: The... op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces ... (more) Howell: No Matter How Bad McCain Is, Our Opinion Pages ...

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Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — ... Guessing Game: Who will cook for Barack?? ANNALS OF JOURNALISM: An increasingly clueless 'Dean'...NPR softballs for a liar...Oh look, another made-up story from the wingmutts...Fox News' Black Panther bullsh*t...Pro-Obama Media?...Press pretended that they didn't know Palin was completely over her head...Unchallenged lies and unexamined cliches...WaPo undercounts Iraq deaths...Lil' Debbie says WaPo should criticize Obama more to please conservatives...Media tell ...

Newspaper Bailouts and Bill Kristol
TalkLeft — ... . And of course there's the hapless Deborah Howell who in her role as the WaPo's ombudsman makes fact free assertions like this: ...

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