On AlterNet: washington post

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What the GOP and Corporate Media Are Hiding: The Public Debt Is Putting More Cash in Your Pocket

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. May 26, 2011.

The media is hoodwinking us into buying the Right's deficit hysteria -- they're not telling us the real story.

Inside Top Secret America

Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet. August 28, 2010.

A major investigation reveals the extent of America's vast and heavily privatized military-corporate-intelligence establishment.

Over 100,000 Rally for Climate and Clean Energy Action: Media Downplays This Amazing Show of Support

Joseph Romm, Climate Progress. April 26, 2010.

Apparently the Washington Post doesn't think that preserving the health and well-being of countless future generations is 'hot-button' enough for the media.

A Helping Hand, Then a Slap in the Face: U.S. Immigration Enforcement Policies Cause More Suffering

Marjorie Valbrun, America's Voice. April 5, 2010.

What might ICE do next? Target injured Haitian evacuees being treated in American hospitals? The possibility doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

Izzy Award Winner Jeremy Scahill: "We're At a Ground Zero Moment to Save Real Journalism"

Byard Duncan, AlterNet. March 25, 2010.

The winner of the second annual Izzy Award, named after muckraking journalist I.F. Stone, discusses independent media and this critical moment in journalism.

Corporate Media's Cave-In to 'Liberal Bias' Attacks Pose a Real Threat to Our Democracy

Robert Parry, Consortium News. February 10, 2010.

The right has convinced Americans that the news media has a liberal bias, lending cover to the neocon leanings of the Washington Post -- and Palin's propaganda.

James O'Keefe, the Landrieu 'Sting' and the Truth About Conservative 'Journalism'

Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress. February 6, 2010.

As the he antics of O'Keefe and company demonstrate, the right has failed to train many genuine journalists. So why do mainstream journalists swallow their line?

Learning Stupid "Lessons," Courtesy of the Washington Post

Brad Reed, Sadly, No!. January 20, 2010.

No, voters aren't moved by "bipartisanship."

On MLK Day, Washington Post Holds Obama Personally Responsible For Not Ushering In Post-Racial Society

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. January 18, 2010.

Why won't Obama give us the post-racial society that the media mendaciously suggested he promised us during the campaign?!

The Health Care Battle May Soon Be Over: Next Up? Immigration

Seth Hoy, Immigration Impact. January 12, 2010.

The U.S. is better off with a health care system that applies to all immigrants. Hopefully, 2010 will demonstrate this.

Conservative Mogul Buying Up Reporters to Promote His Regressive Agenda

William Greider, The Nation. January 6, 2010.

Pete Peterson, the Wall Street billionaire who wants to loot Social Security, has created a "news network" hooked up to the Washington Post.

Scheme to Loot Social Security Must Be Stopped Before the Dems Think It's Smart Politics

William Greider, The Nation. January 4, 2010.

Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson has invented his own "news network" to promote his right-wing rants, and the Washington Post is lending its name to his cause.

Why Is the Washington Post Giving a Platform to Richard Cohen's Outrageous Sexism?

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville. December 15, 2009.

Ostensibly, Cohen claims to be breaking down gender barriers. In reality, he's doing just the opposite.

Oops! TSA Accidentally Posts "Sensitive Security Information" Online

Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 9, 2009.

The 93-page manual details screening procedures and includes photos of IDs used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals.

Studies Show Latinos Are Climbing the Socio-Economic Ladder of Success

Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. December 8, 2009.

Understanding poverty as a racial issue, as some anti-immigration advocates do, is to ignore a host of other problems (and successes).

Obama Advisers Backpedal on Afghanistan: "There Is No Timetable;" "We're Not Talking About an Exit Strategy"

Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress. December 7, 2009.

Over the weekend, David Petraeus, James Jones, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden told various news outlets that 2011 is not a hard deadline for withdrawal.

Conservatives Hunt for 'Bias' in Health Care Polling Data Armed With Complete and Total Ignorance

Simon Maloy, Media Matters for America. October 21, 2009.

The conservative outfit NewsBusters is one big logical fallacy -- they start at the conclusion and work backwards.

What Mainstream Media Don't Get About Obama and Fox News

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. October 20, 2009.

Critiquing the White House for calling out Fox's propagandizing and hate-mongering is not objectivity; it's lunacy.

Why Do Educated People Publish Garbage Defending Rush Limbaugh?

Digby, Hullabaloo. October 19, 2009.

I'm no constitutional scholar, but I don't think there's any guaranteed right to own an NFL team written anywhere in the constitution.

We Are All Roman Polanski's Victims, And We All Deserve Justice

Jaclyn Friedman, AlterNet. October 2, 2009.

When a rapist, no matter how gifted or famous, is allowed to escape justice, we're all harmed.

Why Is the Washington Post Growing More Hawkish on Afghanistan?

Booman, Booman Tribune. September 22, 2009.

Touting an unabashed pro-war posture, the Post appears unwilling to engage in an actual conversation about Afghanistan.

Right-Wing Blogger Hijacks Patrick Swayze's Death

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly. September 15, 2009.

If you're not reading conservative blogs, you're missing out on all kinds of fascinating insights you probably won't find anywhere else.

New Journalism Clubs Are "Members Only"

Rory O'Connor, RoryOConnor.org. August 27, 2009.

Step right up. You too can be ripped off by the New York Times' latest moneymaking gimmick: online courses from Nicholas Kristof, Gail Collins and Eric Asimov.

The Washington Post's Continuing Death Spiral

Robert Dreyfuss, TheNation.com. August 25, 2009.

When it comes to international reporting, the Post has hit a new low.

Health Care Rats Come Out of the Woodwork

Matt Taibbi, True/Slant. August 20, 2009.

On both sides of the "debate," pundits' main concern seems to be that readers are demanding the public option, in spite of what they're being told.