National Review charges Washington Post's Style section with liberal bias

[DeepModem Mom]

Columbia Journalism Review: Nov. 13, 2006
Fashion Sense
The Liberal Bias of the Washington Post's Style Section
Paul McLeary

In a favorite pastime of media critics everywhere, the National Review's Rich Lowry and Nathan Goulding have taken a couple of easy swipes at the Washington Post in recent days for what they consider evidence of the paper's in-house bias.

But in a peculiar twist, Lowry and Goulding lay their well-worn charge of liberal bias at the foot of the paper's Style section, proving that no member of the press can escape their rigorous and damning critique.

Lowry kicked it off on Friday, noting that over the previous two days the Style section had published three stories with the following headlines:

Pride of Baltimore: Nancy Pelosi Learned Her Politics At the Elbow of Her Father the Mayor

Muted Tones of Quiet Authority: A Look Suited to the Speaker

Power Cleaning: As Democrats Take Over the House, Republicans' Perks May Go Out the Window

For his coup de grace, Lowry then fired up the Internets and dug into the Style section's archives to produce the following headlines that ran after the 1994 election, in which the Republicans won control of Congress:

The Day After: Sifting Through the Wreckage

How the Gingrich Stole Christmas

To this, Goulding adds that the headlines are a sure example of media bias, since the Post was mean to Newt Gingrich 12 years ago, and now fawns over Pelosi's suits....

http://www.cjrdaily.org/politics/the_liberal_bias_of_the_washin.php

[pacalo]

1. Want better headlines, Mr. Lowry? Then change your behavior.

[niyad]

2. living proof that some people have WAYYY too much time on their hands

[wtmusic]

3. Reality has a well-known liberal bias

(Thank you, Mr. Colbert.)

[msongs]

4. would that be the National 'socialist' Review? nt

[bluestateguy]

5. They need to get over it. They lost the election.

And now they need to keep quiet.