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WaPo Op-Ed Page A Fact-Free Zone?

By Big Tent Democrat

Below, I wrote a post about a column by David Broder. I disagreed with it, but to my knowledge, Mr. Broder did not misstate any facts. The same was not true of a George will column published earlier this week. Despite this, the Washington Post has not issued a correction of these factual errors. Matt Corley at Think Progress explains:

On Sunday, the Washington Post printed a climate change denial column by George Will that contained several demonstrable falsehoods. Despite the loud chorus of critics pointing out Will’s factual flaws, Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt has refused to comment on the errors and the column has not received a correction. Will has another column in the Post today, but it too has no correction attached to it for his last column’s obvious factual mistakes.

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The Washington Post does a disservice to its Op-Ed columnists such as Broder, Robinson, Ignatius and others when they do not correct factual errors. It is one of many reasons why the Traditional Media is not trusted and why its influence continues to wane.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).