Just for fun, I added this poll.
Because I expect bias in the news, I try make it a practice to read a variety of news sources. Therefore, every Sunday I pick up a copy of the Washington Post. I admit it is hard to stomach. Nonetheless, you cannot love your neighbor if you do not know anything about him. And like it or not, the Post reflects the thoughts of a significant portion of the population.
With each passing year, the decision to buy the Post has become more difficult. With each passing year, the paper has become more propaganda and less objective news. So I find myself wondering more and more why I am helping to fund my opposition’s appalling propaganda. Here are some examples.
- At the top of the front page, the Post had this story: In Today’s Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue? That story quickly devolves into a story about the uncivil tongue of the Right. Should you bother to read this article, please note that some of the examples are subtly biased. Liberals do not uniformly hate all the Founding Fathers. Because he advocated a strong central government, Liberals have adopted Alexander Hamilton as their own special Founding Father.
- At the bottom of the front page, we find: McDonnell: A Razor-Sharp but Selective Memory. Here the Post printed a free compaign ad for Creigh Deeds. I searched the Post for following: “bob mcdonnell” thesis. In all, I got a 108 hits. Who knows what we will see by election day?
- On the front page of the Outlook Section, the Post provided free ad space for the homosexual activists’ agenda: I Didn’t Tell. It Didn’t Matter. Here a young man explains how his follow soldiers supposedly tortured him for a couple of years. The motive? They suspected him of homosexuality. Since I was in the military for years, I found this former soldier’s yarn hard to believe. So I wondered whether the Post had done any investigation of its own. Unfortunately, when I searched the Post using the homosexual soldier’s name, I found no evidence the Post had conducted any investigation of its own.
- On the front page of the Metro Section, the Post oozed with excitement at the prospect of same-sex marriage in Washington D. C.: Waiting to Wed Where It Matters. When the very words that describe what they want, “same-sex marriage,” is an oxymoron, why would any sensible person want to make this nonsense an issue? Does pushing the envelope help to sell newspapers? Whatever its reason, here the Post is raving at the prospect of state sanctioned fornication, and that offends my values.
Unfortunately, the propaganda the Post publishes as news is effective. Remember how the Post “macacaed” Senator George Allen. One word. One day. And that is how the Post defined a senator. Even today, consider what happens when you type “Senator George Allen” into Google. The search engine will kindly suggest further narrowing your search. At the top of their suggested list you will be presented with the word “macaca.” Moreover, if you add the word “macaca,” your first hit will be an article from the Washington Post. Thus, I wonder if the purchase of this libelous and sneering newspaper is an effort in empathy and understanding that asks too much.
