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• In Brief: Remember that Washington Post column about ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:35 am

  Tags: Hello Cleaveland, Hillary Clinton, Robin Givhan, Tits, Washington Post

  Remember that Washington Post column about Senator Clinton's cleavage? Writer Robin Givhan has taken a lot of (deserved) criticism for it, but not from her paper's ombudsman, Deborah Howell. "Does...

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• Black Liberal Blogger: WashPost Wrong on Hand-Wringing on Diversity

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:06 pm

  Tags: Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Political Groups, Jose Antonio Vargas, Online Media, Blogs, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Journalistic Issues

  Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reported in the August 6 paper about worries in the Yearly Kos crowd that the liberal blogosphere is too white and too male. Critiquing that August 6 article, Jack Turner of "Jack & Jill Politics" disagreed with Vargas' assessment that every attendee at YearlyKos was wringing his or her hands

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• Washingtonpost.com Adds NR's Ramesh Ponnuru to Website Lineup

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Washington Post, Blogs

  discussions moderated by Post columnists E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson. The Washingtonpost.com people have also added "Rights Watchers" from the left-leaning Human Rights Watch, and "The Secularist's Corner" with "Freethinkers" author Susan Jacoby, for the many Post subscribers who think God is an angry

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• Debate's "brightest moment"? Few media note that even while attacking Obama, Romney agreed on substance

  Published: August 6, 2007, 7:20 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Usa Today, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, Mitt Romney, National Security Foreign Policy, Rudy Giuliani

  go on the offensive. The Washington Post noted just Romney's attacks in its August 6 article: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), in particular, was singled out for saying last week that he would act against terrorists in Pakistan without the support of its president. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney contrasted those comments

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• Wash. Post reported on Giuliani's health plan, but not how he would pay for it

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:54 pm

  Tags: The Washington Post, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Rudy Giuliani

  presidential candidates, The Washington Post noted that "Democrats, particularly Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and former senator John Edwards (N.C.), are calling for higher taxes for people who make more than $250,000 a year" to pay for their health care plans. The Post went on to discuss former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's (R) recently

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• The State (SC) joins other media in misreporting Clyburn comments

  Published: August 3, 2007, 6:47 pm

  Tags: The Washington Post, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  troops. From the July 30 "PostTalk" interview of Clyburn on washingtonpost.com (video available at the website): BALZ: What do Democrats do if General Petraeus comes in in September and says, "This is working very, very well at this point; we would be foolish to back away from it"? CLYBURN: Well, that would be a real big problem for us, no

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• In Defense of Scientology

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:34 pm

  Tags: Scientology, The Washington Post, Tom Cruise

  Oppenheimer, writing in The Washington Post, suggests Germany's ban on Scientologists (including Tom Cruise) is an overreaction, and one we're all a little guilty of. He says it's Scientology's similarities to mainstream religion that embarrasses us, not it's strangeness. Oppenheimer points out that, on inspection, Scientology's practices are no

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• The Next Advertising Shakedown

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:55 am

  Tags: Future Trends, Adecn, Advertising, Cnet, Doubleclick, Google, Microsoft, New York Times, Right Media, Time Warner, Washington Post, Yahoo, Wpo, Nyt, Twx, Goog, Cnet, Msft, Yhoo

  week. In mid-July, Yahoo! posted disappointing revenue from display ads and cut its forecast for the rest of the year. At least three other big Web publishers - the New York Times (NYT), the Washington Post (WPO) and the technology-focused Cnet (CNET) - reported slowing Internet ad growth recently. Analysts and ad execs say established

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• Kurtz claimed he "didn't see anyone reporting that Obama wanted to invade Pakistan"

  Published: August 8, 2007, 8:01 pm

  Tags: Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  8 edition of his column, Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz noted Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) August 6 statement that he "never called for an invasion of Pakistan" in his August 1 foreign policy speech and that "the misreporting that was done needs to be cleared up." Kurtz described Obama as "blaming the media" and responded: "I

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• Washington Post Cheerleads Conversion of a Small Number of Evangelicals to Anti-Global Warming Activism

  Published: August 8, 2007, 9:07 pm

  Tags: Global Warming, Washington Post

  Eilperin of the Washington Post had a worthy entry in the category of wishful-thinking opinion-newswriting on page A1 of the Washington Post Wednesday, with her story "Warming Draws Evangelicals Into Environmentalist Fold." Based on the content of the piece, it might better have been titled, "Assiduous Environmentalist

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• Will Nets Ignore Apparent Clinton Flip-Flop on Nukes?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 3:14 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Afghanistan, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Middle East, Military, Political Groups, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Associated Press, Washington Post

  dovish stance. As the Washington Post reported in the August 3 paper: By the afternoon, Clinton (N.Y.) had responded with an implicit rebuke. "Presidents should be careful at all times in discussing the use and nonuse of nuclear weapons," she said, adding that she would not answer hypothetical questions about the use of nuclear

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• Numerous media outlets publish misleading attacks on decision to limit electronic voting

  Published: August 9, 2007, 6:54 pm

  Tags: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, The Washington Post, Government Elections

  Jacobs noted in a blog post at The Huffington Post critical of Walters' argument. Walters asserted that it "is not surprising" that the systems were found to be vulnerable, given the "unrealistic circumstances of the tests. Among other things, the hackers were supplied with source codes and other confidential

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• Markos Moulitsas to Debate Harold Ford Jr. on Meet the Press'

  Published: August 11, 2007, 7:33 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Campaigns Amp Amp Elections, Harold Ford Jr, Markos Moulitsas, Meet The Press, Nbc, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Blogs

  weekend. On Saturday, the Washington Post published an op-ed by Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, to be followed by a debate on Sunday's "Meet the Press" between the head Kossack and the chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, Harold Ford, Jr. Are media recognizing the power of the Netroots, or just trying to assist their

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• Wash. Post Mag mischaracterized Obama's account of 2004 DNC invitation, then called it "disingenuous"

  Published: August 12, 2007, 6:04 pm

  Tags: The Washington Post, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Government Elections

  an August 12 Washington Post Magazine cover story on presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Liza Mundy asserted that Obama, in his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Crown), "portrays it as a total surprise when [Mary Beth] Cahill," Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) 2004 presidential

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• Media ignore Rove's leak, White House falsehoods, Bush's promise to fire leaker

  Published: August 13, 2007, 6:25 pm

  Tags: Bill Plante, Kelly O Donnell, Associated Press, Cbs, Msnbc, Msnbc Live, Nbc, The Early Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Today Show, Cia Leak Investigation, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  the Associated Press and washingtonpost.com reported on August 13 that Rove did leak Plame's identity, neither reported Bush's pledge to fire anyone "involved" in the Plame leak or the fact that Rove's security clearance was renewed despite the leak. The AP also did not report that the White House had initially denied

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