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Friday 6 November 2009

So, to re-cap:  The [Washington] Post today has two former Bush officials, one former Reagan official, two right-wing politicians, a Fox News neocon, the CEO of America’s largest oil and gas producer, a defender of the right-wing Honduran military coup leaders, and one liberal columnist.  That overwhelming right-wing presence on the Post Op-Ed page is anything but unusual (the day after it fired Dan Froomkin, The Post published Paul Wolfowitz, Michael Hayden, Charles Krauthammer and an Iran-hawkish screed from David Ignatnius, preceded by Glenn Beck, Bill Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Ramesh Ponnuru).  And that’s to say nothing of the always-pro-war Editorial Page itself, which typically advocates for those same positions.  The Post is obviously free to publish whatever it wants, but, wth some very rare exception, its Op-Ed page under Fred Hiatt now really is the leading outlet for neoconservatve and related right-wing advocacy.  It is one of those outlets typically counted as part of the “Liberal Media” by right-wing self-victimizers and their media amplifiers, yet The Post’s claimed devotion to airing a “wide range of views” is scarcely more credible than Fox News’ “fair and balanced” slogan. Glenn Greenwald

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