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ACTION ALERT FROM FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
"On June 8, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank referred to Downing Street Memo activists as "wing nuts."Milbank had reported the same day (6/8/05) that his paper's latest poll showed that only 41 percent of Americans approved of the Iraq war--which makes one wonder when exactly the war would cross Milbank's threshold and become unpopular enough to make the memo newsworthy.
Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley opted for
sarcasm over serious discussion, deriding activists in a June 12 column for sending him emails "demanding that I cease my personal cover-up of something called the Downing Street Memo." Kinsley kidded that the fuss was a good sign for the Left: "Developing a paranoid theory and promoting it to the very edge of national respectability takes ideological self-confidence." "
Read FAIR's whole article here:
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2545ACTION:
Contact the Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler and ask him if it is appropriate to label media activists "wing nuts" in a news story.
Also, ask Los Angeles Times editor Michael Kinsley to explain how
Downing Street Memo activists are peddling a "paranoid theory" that he also suggests is correct.
CONTACT:
Washington Post
Ombudsman
Michael Getler
Phone: (202) 334-7582
ombudsman@washpost.com
Los Angeles Times
Editorial & Opinion Editor
Michael Kinsley
michael.kinsley@latimes.com
As always, please remember that your comments have more impact if you maintain a polite tone.
Here is my letter to the Washington Post:
Washington Post
Ombudsman
Michael Getler
Dear Mr. Getler:
On June 8, Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank referred to media activists as "Wingnuts" for suggesting that the media has not properly held accountable the Bush Administration for possibly deceiving the American people.
I would like to suggest Mr. Getler that the Downing Street minutes as well as numerous other documents and the words of numerous senior officials on both sides of the Atlantic might give even dispassionate observer cause to believe that our country might very well have been mislead.
Is it not disconcerting sir, that the whole question of whether or not the Bush Administration deceived the American Congress, media and people in an issue of such grave importance has received so very little attention in the mainstream American press?
I do hope that the Washington Post, one of the world's leading newspapers, will pursue this matter with serious and in-depth investigative journalism.
On Thursday June 16, 2005, at 1:00 p.m. in the Wasserman Room at 430 S Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C., Rep. John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and other Congress Members will hold a hearing on the Downing Street Minutes and other documents and pursue the whole question of whether or not the Bush Administration did or did not "fix intelligence" and engage in an intentional campaign of deception. I trust that the Washington Post will give full and fair coverage to this hearing.
I also hope that the Post will commit itself to thorough, independent and in-depth investigation of its own on the whole question of the Bush Administrations possible manipulation of intelligence. If it is true Mr. Getler that the White House intentionally mislead the nation--should not the Washington Post of all papers be leading the journalistic world in investigating this matter?
Sincerely,
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