The Post electronic front page headline is faux "fair and balanced", but the article explicitly tells the truth.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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Campaign Tactics Veer Toward Smear
On the brink of what could be a power-shifting election, desperate candidates resort to alleging moral bankruptcy and sexual perversion.
-Michael Grunwald
The Year Of Playing Dirtier
Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal
to the killer paragraph buried in the piece
The result has been a carnival of ugly, especially on the GOP side, where operatives are trying to counter what polls show is a hostile political environment by casting opponents as fatally flawed characters. The National Republican Campaign Committee is spending more than 90 percent of its advertising budget on negative ads, according to GOP operatives, and the rest of the party seems to be following suit.
NINETY PERCENT on NRC and other GOP negative ads. That should have been the headline.
Has anybody seen the print version to compare how that medium handled the story? Oh yes, the press has a liberal bias according to ABC's Halperinmeister. Reality and the facts are what has a liberal bias, as Colbert would say.
I hope MediaMatters run with this.
We should also contact the reporter to complain, though it is true that it is the editors who choose the headlines.
WaPo numbers
Main Number, 334-6000
Editorial Dept. phone mail 334-7470,
This URL brings you to the email access point for Grunwald:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/....
There used to be a site that gave the direct emails for the entire staff, but today I could not find it.
Previously posted as a comment
http://www.dailykos.com/...
but I disinterred it since it deserves more attention.