In his 19-paragraph page A4 story headlined "NRA-backed study urges armed staff at schools," staff writer Peter Finn waited until the 12th paragraph to mention that a father of a slain student at Sandy Hook was at the NRA's April 2 news conference in which former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.) unveiled a "National School Shield… Read more »
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WashPost Runs 20 Paragraph Puff Piece on Keystone Pipeline Protestors
On Sunday, 35,000 protestors marched on the Washington Mall urging President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline, giving the Washington Post’s Steven Mufson ample space to hype the march. In the 20 paragraph expose, the Post fails to label the protestors as liberal once and does not include any quotes from supporters of the… Read more »
WashPost Runs 43 Paragraph Front-Page Article On Sen. Menendez; Buries Prostitution Scandal In Style Section
The February 7 Washington Post ran an in-depth front-page story examining the relationship between Sen. Robert Menendez and a Florida eye doctor under investigation for Medicare fraud. Despite extensively detailing the controversial relationship between the New Jersey Democrat and the reliably Democratic campaign donor, the Post's Carol Leonnig and Jerry Markon omitted that the FBI… Read more »
CNN Identifies Arrested NJ Mayor as Democrat on 18th Paragraph
Tony Mack (pictured above), the Democratic mayor of Trenton, New Jersey, was arrested Monday by the FBI on numerous charges of bribery. If you read CNN’s story on this scandal, you wouldn’t discover that Mack is a Democrat until the very end of the story. Here are the two first paragraphs: The mayor of New… Read more »