‘Disruptive, Demanding’ Elizabeth Warren vs. ‘Can-Do’ Pragmatists
Media coverage portrays populist Democrats as presenting a “threat” to pragmatic centrism.
Silly Environmentalists, Getting Upset Over a Little Pipeline
‘Both sides’ are exaggerating the impact of the Keystone XL pipeline, says a Washington Post reporter. He’s half-right.
Obama: ‘Starkly Liberal’ or Centrist?
A Washington Post story today (1/24/13) leads with this: The success of President Obama’s starkly liberal second-term agenda will rest largely on the shoulders of Senate majority leader Harry M. Reid, who has been a rock-solid political ally and a valued legislative tactician for Obama during his first term. That characterization of Obama’s agenda–shared by […]
The Election Lesson: Hoover Was Right!
The Washington Post reported (11/5/09) that some Democrats are “questioning whether they should emphasize job creation over some of the more ambitious items on the president’s agenda.” A couple paragraphs later, reporters Michael Shear and Paul Kane elaborate: Moderate and conservative Democrats took a clear signal from Tuesday’s voting, warning that the results prove that […]
Impoverished Papers Can’t Afford Truth
Hearing “the whining retreat of a whipped pup instead of the toothy growl of a watchdog,” the Colorado Independent‘s John Tomasic (5/11/09) quotes Washington Post reporter Paul Kane answering an online question with a new excuse for refusing to “call waterboarding people and slamming them into walls torture”–“because [the Post] fears a lawsuit for libel”: […]
We Want the Washington Post to Be More Than an Official Echo Chamber
Washington Post reporter Paul Kane proffered what blogger Matthew Yglesias aptly called a “full-throated defense of journalism-as-stenography.” Kane had been criticized by Media Matters that he had quoted Sen. Olympia Snowe (R.-Maine) as saying that Barack Obama’s use of the filibuster-avoiding budget reconciliation tool would make it “infinitely more difficult to bridge the partisan divide” […]
