I still haven't gotten over the Washington Post editorial entitled
"A Good Leak.".
This short diary is simply my humble, frustrated attempt to keep this issue open and to make an appeal for Kossacks to cancel subscriptions to WaPo and to avoid their website until there is an explanation.
I used to read the online Washington Post every day. Through all the obviously biased stories that have come out of WaPo since Bush has been in office, at least there was a presumption of fairness and unbiased, neutral reporting by WaPo. That presumption was shattered for me with "A Good Leak." I know, some commenters will say "WaPo has been, was, and is...
...a corporate shill."
Well, at least they presented both sides in the past. This unsigned editorial is an outrage and the Washington Post should put forward the facts behind its publication.
In that unsigned editorial, the presumption is that members of the editorial board from a variety of political pursuasions agreed that Bush's NIE leak which led to the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson to be a "good leak."
I sent the contents of this diary to the Washington Post, letting them know that I am pushing for a boycott of their paper until such a time that there is an explanation for that despicable editorial.
letters@washpost.com
Even WaPo's Howard Kurtz, was dumbfounded (found this here):
He wasn't the only one who thought so, as demonstrated in Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz's friendly online chat yesterday afternoon, which was chock full of questions about the issue:
Washington, D.C.: Yes, we all know; the news and editorial divisions of The Post are separate. But yesterday's "A Good Leak" editorial, written in blatant disregard of undisputed facts reported in The Post and elsewhere, can't help but damage the whole paper's reputation. What is behind this madness?
Howard Kurtz: Again, I'll let Fred Hiatt and company defend themselves on controversial editorials. But it does underscore the church-and-state division around here, since I don't think anyone would suggest that The Post's news coverage has treated this as a "good leak."
Firedoglake is tearing them a new one and working to find out how this happened as well:
"The new Washington Post editorial, an enormous turd that editorial page editor Fred Hiatt no doubt wrote, is such an unmitigated piece of BushCo. propaganda, such a giant bag of [expletive] it deserves to be taken apart, piece by piece and beaten into the ground."
Boycott their asses until Fred Hiatt explains or leaves.