Rumor: The Washington Post does journalism

[babylonsister]

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/?last_story=/politics/war_room/2007/12/05/rumors/

Rumor: The Washington Post does journalism

Last week's Washington Post front-pager passing along rumors that Barack Obama is a Muslim -- and maybe even a "'Muslim plant' in a conspiracy against America"! -- may well have been, as the Columbia Journal Review's Paul McLeary says, "the single worst campaign '08 piece to appear in any American newspaper so far this election cycle."

But that's not the only honor the Post deserves.

Our award for "single worst excuse for shoddy campaign '08 journalism to be articulated by any employee of any American newspaper so far this election cycle" goes to the Post's assistant managing editor Bill Hamilton, who says the paper didn't bother to say that the rumors about Obama were false because "to me, a rumor is not true."

[groovedaddy]

1. They used to, any way.

Not any more.

[kansasblue]

9. ' DID '

you beat me to to it!

[blm]

2. WaPo's asshat reporter Michael Dobb's did the exact same thing with Swiftlies in 2004.

And THAT piece was the one that so many of the network pundits latched onto - Dobbs completely distorted the story to make it seem as if the Swifts had a case and that Kerry was in trouble and implied that Kerry HAD something to cover up.

Fortunately, most are beginning to see thru the Washington Post and their claims to be a topnotch news service.

[Virginia Dare]

3. I fondly remember the days..

when there was a megalomaniacal criminal in the White House and the Washington Post actually exposed it.

[gratuitous]

4. You know, I heard a rumor

Mitt Romney regularly engages in sexual congress with goats. Will the Post run this rumor? It's "out there," after all. If not, why not?

[Ravy]

5. Because, according to them, to be a rumor, it has to be false. nt

[gratuitous]

6. Curses!

Foiled again.

[robbedvoter]

7. Didn't they refuse to cover Giulianni's embezzlement and scandal?

The rumor is false!

[Virginia Dare]

8. They referred to Judy as his "companion"...

in the articles I read. For fuck's sake, what was she, his poodle? She was his fucking MISTRESS you tools!