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Right Argues Obama Was a Bully, Too!

Kevin Spak — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:40:05 CDT

Mitt Romney isn't the only one with a history of bullying . In response to the Washington Post piece about a forcible haircut Romney allegedly gave a student, conservative media outlets yesterday called attention to a passage from Obama's 1995 book Dreams From My Father in which a middle-school age Barack...

Washington Post Buys Digg Techies ... but Not Digg

Kevin Spak — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:27:07 CDT

The Washington Post may have just dug Digg's grave. Yesterday The Next Web shocked much of the tech world with a report that the Post was buying the once-hot social media site, but it now looks like that's only partially true. TechCrunch later reported that the Post was actually only...

Editor Casts Doubt on 'Deep Throat' Story

Kevin Spak — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:30:00 CDT

Bob Woodward is not happy about a new book in which former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee appears to express doubt about the legend of "Deep Throat." Bradlee gave reporter Jeff Himmelman access to a box of old documents, and in it, Himmelman found an interview Bradlee had conducted for...

What's Out, What's In in 2012

Dustin Lushing — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:37:52 CST

A new year dawns, and the trend-predictors at the Washington Post have fashioned a comprehensive list of what will be in and what will be out in 2012: Out : Ryan Gosling In : Michael Fassbender

O'Reilly: Lincoln Book Has Just 4 Errors, 2 Typos

Kevin Spak — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:19:12 CST

Bill O’Reilly vigorously defended his book, Killing Lincoln , yesterday, after the National Park Service lambasted it for historical inaccuracies . “Our enemies are full of rage at our success,” he said on his show. He said the book contained "four minor misstatements, all of which have been corrected" along with "two...

Obama's 'Scandal-Free' Streak Sets Record

Kevin Spak — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:43:05 CDT

Yesterday Barack Obama officially broke George W. Bush’s record for the longest scandal-free streak by a president in the post-Watergate era—at least by one political scientist’s criteria. Dartmouth professor Brendan Nyhan ran a study earlier this year on presidential scandals, which he defines as "widespread elite perception of wrongdoing....

Journos Outraged as Slate Axes Jack Shafer

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:16:32 CDT

Slate co-founder Jack Shafer, who has been with the online magazine since before its official launch in 1996, is being laid off, it was announced yesterday. The media critic is one of four staff members being let go; Timothy Noah , June Thomas , and Juliet Lapidos are the others, reports the...

Hackers Hit Washington Post

Rob Quinn — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:03:07 CDT

People who looked for work via the Washington Post 's online Jobs section may start to see more spam in their inboxes. The paper says an unknown group of hackers hit the section last week, making off with around 1.2 million email addresses but not much else, the Christian...

Why the Post Didn't Run Vargas' Story

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 10:44:34 CDT

Jose Antonio Vargas' "coming out" as an illegal immigrant generated quite a bit of buzz—so why wasn't his story published in the Washington Post , where he worked for years? Vargas originally brought his 4,000-word account to the Post , and until last week, that's where it was scheduled to...