The Washington Post Disses Liberal Bloggers

The Post's heavy-handed indifference to the achievements of liberal bloggers is now well established. The paper all but ignored Josh Marshall's extraordinary work in the still-unfolding U.S. Attorneys purge story. The paper completely ignored Firedoglake's groundbreaking work in live-blogging the entire Scooter Libby trial. And the Post dismissed the bloggers' ability to get canceled a Democratic debate sponsored by Fox News.

The three recent events marked turning points in the way progressive blogs affect politics and the press, and yet we hardly heard a peep from the Post. Note though, that in February the Post published a splashy, Style section feature on factually-challenged warblogger Michelle Malkin. The paper's double standard has become blindingly obvious.

Read the full Media Matters column here.