Reply #165: My letter to WaPo. (Compared Milbank to Mancoulter hee hee) [View All]

[katinmn]

Dear Mr. Abramowitz and Mr. Getler,


The Washington Post article "Democrats Play House To Rally Against the War" by Dana Milbank was so clearly partisan that one would expect it to be the work of Fox News rather than the Washington Post.

I suggest you send Mr. Milbank back to journalism school or replace him with a fresh mind that hasn't lost touch with the tenet of objectivity.

His "reporting" looks to an outsider like that of an apologist for the Bush Administration. At the very least the article should have been relegated to the opinion pages. That's where the junk with bias and inflammatory language belongs.

I know you have to agree that peice of work is not an example of objective news reporting. Why was it given such prominence? Why was there no straight and factual news reporting to give balance to Mr. Milbank's opinion? Does the Washington Post agree that anyone who opposes Bush policies are "playing" at government? I followed the hearing on the Downing Street Minutes because I thought it was important. I was hoping the Washington Post would report on what happened at the meeting in a factual manner. I learned nothing from Mr. Milbank's "report" other than that he hates Democrats.

Congressman John Conyers has more integrity in his pinky than Mr. Milbank and his neocon heroes have combined. The Washington Post needs to realize that writers like Mr. Milbank and Ann Coulter are adding to the hate and divisiveness in this country by vilifying someone who is very well respected by a vast number of Americans.

This article stands out as an example of what is wrong with journalism in this country. No wonder we are abandoning the corporate media for what truth we can peice together from independent Internet news sites and blogs.

xxx
St. Paul, MN