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Shirin Sadeghi: Election Day: The Battle in Pakistan & Washington to Stop Imran Khan

2013-05-10T12:07:03Z

Whether or not Khan's party wins big on Saturday, it's already won the hearts and minds of tens of millions of Pakistanis. And that alone seems to be the most threatening thing of all.

Read more: Nawaz Sharif, Christian Science Monitor, Ppp, Pml-N, Vote, Last Rally, Imran Khan, Pakistan, Washington DC, Washington Post, Election, World News

Mike Lux: Federal Government Nation's Biggest Creator of Low-Wage Jobs: Time for Obama to Act

2013-05-08T15:46:02Z

President Obama has waited too long. The president could help those 2,000,000 low-wage workers working for government contractors with an executive order, and for over four years now, he has refused to act.

Read more: Good Jobs Nation, Congress, Low-Wage Workers, Employee Free Choice Act, Truck Drivers, Union Station, Washington Post, Fast Food Workers, Chamber of Commerce, Usda, Demos, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Barack Obama, Wal-Mart, Video, Politics News

Richard (RJ) Eskow: It's a "Big Deal" When Red-state Senators Defy Obama on Social Security Cuts

2013-05-07T19:50:10Z

There are a number of reasons why this is important, including the fact that it may scuttle the chance (if there ever was one) for any deal. But something else makes this development what the Vice President of the United States might call "a big effin' deal": It tells us once and for all where the real political center lies.

Read more: White House, Red States, Obama Administration, Beltway, Washington Post, Social Security, Chain Cpi, Politics News

Rough News For The Washington Post Co.

2013-05-03T09:10:00Z

(Corrected typographical error in word "education" in headline) May 3 (Reuters) - Washington Post Co reported an 85 percent drop in fi...

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Mike Smith: Medill Energy Report Sparks Debate

2013-04-29T16:19:20Z

Energy reporters need to understand science

You don't expect a donnybrook when a university like Northwestern releases a White Paper. Yet oh what fun...

Read more: Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post, Energy-Reports, Juliet-Eilperin, Northwestern, Medill School of Journalism, Green News

Joseph Bobrow: Unreliable Sources: The Radicalization of Howard Kurtz

2013-04-28T15:47:44Z

I was shocked and dismayed by Howard Kurtz's unprofessional and closed-minded comments on his Reliable Sources show on CNN today regarding the coverag...

Read more: New York Times, Howard Kurtz, Cnn, Washington Post, Reliable Sources, Boston Marathon Bombings, Journailism, Media News

Michael Roth: Review of David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

2013-04-28T21:14:53Z

David Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism is a thorough, scholarly account of why, in the history of the West, Jews have been so easy to hate. And this story goes back a very long way.

Read more: Anti-Semitism, Tom Lehrer, Washington Post, David Nirenberg, Michael S. Roth, Book Review, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition Review, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition, Books News

Margie Omero: The Myth of a Gun "Intensity Gap"

2013-04-24T13:23:56Z

In the wake of the failure of the Senate to pass even a modest background check bill, many around the country are still scratching their heads. How co...

Read more: Pollster Analysis, Obama Gun Control, Assault Weapons, Michael Bloomberg, Gun Control, Background Checks, Nra, Gallup, Guns, Illegal Guns, National Rifle Association, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, High Capacity Magazines, ABC/Washington Post, Fox News, Washington Post, Pollster, Politics News

Reese Schonfeld: Bring Back Bernie (Shaw) or CNN Has Done It Again

2013-04-19T08:41:55Z

In 1981, Bernie Shaw stood up to his bosses and the opposition networks and kept Jim Brady alive. He was right, the rest of us were wrong and he saved our "unique" credibility. It's too bad there no was no Bernie Shaw at CNN or Fox yesterday.

Read more: Los Angeles Times, Bernie Shaw, Cnn, Jim Brady, Tabloids, New York Times, United Press, Gabrielle Giffords, Washington Post, Abc, Fox, Dewey, Cbs, Foxnews, Nbc, Media News

David Tereshchuk: New and Old Media's Shifting Roles After Bombing

2013-04-18T00:15:37Z

Among all the other aching distress caused by the Boston bombing, its coverage in the major media gave us precious little of American journalism's best work. The wall-to-wall team coverage that such appalling events now engender operates to the severe detriment of meaningful journalism.

Read more: Associated Press, Cnn, Washington Post, Twitter, Boston Marathon Bombing, Terrorism, The Boston Globe, Media News

Robert Naiman: On Friday, Kill the #ChainedCPI Cut to Social Security & Veterans' Benefits

2013-04-15T12:55:08Z

The bipartisan deal we should be seeking would leave Social Security and veterans' benefits and taxes alone and cut the bloated Pentagon budget instead.

Read more: Pentagon, Rodney Davis, Social Security, Wall Street, MoveOn.Org, Dick Durbin, Washington Post, Grover Norquist, Lindsey Graham, Chained CPI, Barack Obama, Veterans, Social Security Chained Cpi, Social Security Cuts, Obama Social Security Cuts, Politics News

Washington Post Runs Ad For Its Own Building Sale

2013-04-15T08:50:52Z

Readers of The Washington Post's Monday paper may have noticed that the publication's 63-year-old headquarters showed up in a "for sale" ad.

The P...

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Michael Calderone: Washington Post Hires NBC-MSNBC Veteran

2013-04-12T16:03:34Z

Washington Post continues staffing up for new online video channel.

Read more: The Backstory, Wapo Politics Channel, Washington Post, Washington Post Politics Channel, Media News

Peter D. Rosenstein: Katherine Graham Must Be Turning Over in Her Grave

2013-04-08T15:56:20Z

For many years the Washington Post was a reliably progressive paper responsive to its reader's interests. However the Post today is no longer that paper.

Read more: Supreme Court, Vouchers, Examiner, Washington Times, Roe v. Wade, New York Times, Congress, Washington Post, Doma, Katherine Graham, Patrick Pexton, Patrick Mara, Wall Street Journal, DC News

Leo W. Gerard: Bait and Switch, CEO Style

2013-04-08T08:12:57Z

The rich snicker as the vast majority of Americans are so distracted they don't focus on record corporate profits, on record low corporate tax payments or on lobbyists buying tax breaks for corporations and loopholes for offshore accounts.

Read more: Social Security, Fortune 500, Corporate Profits, Food Stamps, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Cayman Islands, Bait and Switch, Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, Citizens for Tax Justice, U.S. Commerce Department, Procter & Gamble, Economic Policy Institute, The State of Working America, Minimum Wage, Dow Jones Industrials, Welfare, New York Times, Washington Post, Medicare, Fortune 500 Companies, Epi, Tax Shelter, Video, Politics News

Politico Puts Flagship Web Show On Hold To Retool

2013-04-03T12:57:33Z

Politico has quietly placed its thrice-weekly web show “Politico Live” on hold while retooling the format, perhaps to a weekly show featuring its ...

Read more: The Backstory, Politico Live Changes, Politico, Washington Post Video, Mike Allen, Washington Post, Politico Live, Media News, Jim VandeHei, Media News

Margie Omero: Politicians, Not the Public, Have Moved on Guns

2013-04-03T03:28:58Z

While on some gun questions support fluctuates, the president's main gun law priorities remain popular. It is politicians who have moved on these popular policies.

Read more: Pollster Analysis, Michael Bloomberg, President Obama, Gun Control, Nra, Center for American Progress, Barack Obama, CNN Poll, Guns, Gun Laws, National Rifle Association, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, ABC/Washington Post, Cnn, Fox News, Washington Post, Pollster, Politics News

Washington Post Withholds High-Ranking CIA Official's Name

2013-03-27T14:09:06Z

NEW YORK –- The Washington Post revealed Wednesday in a front-page story that a woman currently running the clandestine service had signed off on a ...

Read more: The Backstory, Washington Post Withholds Name, Cia Clandestine Service, Washington Post Cia Agent, Zero Dark Thirty, Cia Washington Post, Clandestine Service, Washington Post Zero Dark Thirty, National Clandestine Service, Washington Post, Media News, Washington Post Cia, Media News

Will Bunch: Of Course the Media Failed in Iraq -- Here's Why

2013-03-26T08:49:21Z

By any standard, the failure of the America media in 2002-03 was the worst collapse by any press corps anywhere since the 1930s. In a profession where the highest value is on truth telling, false information was presented as fact on front pages night after night.

Read more: Iraq War, Greg Mitchell, The Media, George W. Bush, Washington Post, Watergate, Knight-Ridder Iraq Coverage, Paul Farhi, Media News

Ben Zweifach: Obama Can't Win on Israel

2013-03-24T16:33:25Z

For media as well as elected officials, supporting the opposition is prohibited... especially when you agree with it.

Read more: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Politics, Washington Post, Israel, Judaism, Barack Obama, Jennifer Rubin, Obama Israel, Politics News

Washington Post Defends Killing Critical Iraq Media Article

2013-03-24T12:30:45Z

NEW YORK -- Greg Mitchell, author of a recently updated book on media mistakes during the run-up to the Iraq War, So Wrong For So Long, revealed Satur...

Read more: The Backstory, Paul Farhi Media Failure, Washington Post Iraq, Greg Mitchell, Washington Post Iraq Media Failure, Washington Post Paul Farhi, Washington Post, Media News, Greg Mitchell Washington Post, Iraq, Media News

David Winder: World Water Day 2013: Water Is Just the Beginning

2013-03-21T14:17:54Z

We have been counting down the days to World Water Day by looking at 20 ways that water is just the beginning: the beginning of the first steps out of poverty, the beginning of putting food on the table.

Read more: Everyone Everywhere, World Water Day, Africa, Central America, Hygiene, Water, Wateraid, Washington Post, Asia, Sanitation, World Water Day 2013, Clean Water, Video, Impact News

Michael Calderone: Washington Post Fills Environmental Beat

2013-03-20T22:01:58Z

The Washington Post is not scaling back on environmental coverage, as some feared.

Read more: The Backstory, Washington Post Climate, Washington Post Environment, Washington Post, Media News

Washington Post Editorial Page Misses Iraq War Anniversary

2013-03-20T11:50:14Z

WASHINGTON -- In the months leading up to the Iraq War, The Washington Post ran 27 editorials in favor of invasion, according to a count by veteran PB...

Read more: Iraq War, Iraq War Anniversary, Iraq War Anniversary 2013, Washington Post Iraq, Washington Post Iraq Editorial, Iraq 10 Years After, Washington Post Editorial, Washington Post, Washington Post Iraq War, Iraq War 10th Anniversary, Iraq, Washington Post Editorial Page Iraq, Media News

Washington Post Paywall Is Coming

2013-03-18T14:25:54Z

The Washington Post will introduce a paywall this summer, the paper announced on Monday.

In December, the Washington Post said it was exploring the...

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