...on bloggers as journalists?

A reaction like this to criticism makes it very clear to me that kos and the front-pagers are far more deserving of the legal protections afforded to journalists than anyone who works at the Washington Post.

This Idiot is employed by the WaPo not Wapo.com and they are almost seperate newpapers at this point.

What makes her sin this time worse is that this isn't the first time she's slammed somebody on the left with her column.

You'd think she'd have learned her lesson from the Last time when she wrote a column about complaints from the Post's WH reporters (later discovered to have been fueled by comments from an RNC operative) That the Title of  A WaPo.com Blog Froomkin's White House Briefing was confusing to readers who might think that Froomkin was part of the WaPo's WH press corps. (so What?)

Ignoring for a fact that she was way beyond her juridisciton anyway when she wrote the column since  Ombudsmen are supposed to mediate READER complaints not interdepartmental squabbles.    The article itself was inartfully written and full of casual accusations and assumptions.  Specifically she stated the post needed a conservative blogger (what's wrong with Howard Kurtz?_) to "balance" Froomkin who was  "quite Liberal"  

The Sturm und Drang that Erupted on the Wapo Blog was unbelieveable.  Howell got downright shellacked by literally thousands of Post  readers for that comment and the overall tone of her article.  You'd think she would have learned as ombudsman that shee too was bound by the same standards of Journalism as everyone else.

But apparently it has yet to sink in for her.

our own "media" we might better piss in Katrina's face. becuz, "freedom of the press" only belongs to those that own the press.
and, as swell a site as this is Kos is right. we can scream and holler on here 'til the cows come home, if WaPo says the Dems are just as involved as the Repubs then, by God they are just as involved as the Repubs. it don't matter what the "facts" are becuz nobody reports those anymore. so...
until we buy our own printing press and radio/ tv transmitter...
we might better hold our hand on our ass.

...of the trip Bush 1 took to Japan in the early '90s. Does anyone remember (how could you forget the leader of the free world barfing on Japnese dignitaries?)? Accompnying the former president/failed father on this trip were executives of the US auto industry. They went there to ask the Japnese manufacturers to bring the quality of their cars down a notch or three so that they (the US corps.)would have an easier time competing.

This sems to be the prefered approach by American corporations, including the media. Rather than do their job and tell us what's really going on, the MSM simply want to Xerox the GOP talking points and spew them as "news". Meanwhile, folks like Kos are putting out the truth. Instead of following suit and giving us a more complete and accurate picture of what's going on the MSM simply attacks the blogs. "Please stop doing such a good job of providing information to the public. If you don't we'll have to actually start doing our job in order to compete."

Well, the folks at WaPo and The NY Times shouldn't worry--as long as there are puppies to train and fish to wrap the major dailies will still be useful for something. As for news, however, there is just no longer any reason to take the MSM at all seriously.

...is a boycott.  Boycott this motherfucking newspaper and its advertisers.  Drive it into bankruptcy.  Drive it out of business.  Kill it dead like the roach that it is.

I mean it.  Boycott this motherfucking rag with the goal of destroying it.

ombudsman@washpost.com

This from Ms. Howell when I asked about claims in Ms. Schmidt's reporting that Delay and Abramoff were  not in fact friends:

"I talked to the reporters. They say DeLay and Abramoff were political friends, not personal friends. They have reported on this extensively and found no one who says they were personal friends. Political and personal friendship are very different to me." Deborah

Snarky, inside the beltway, you just wouldn't unders tand how washington works huh?

Here is deborah howell's direct email:

HowellDC@washpost.com