The WashPost's dreadful school "controversy" reporting (Boehlert | Media Matters)

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September 08, 2009 10:17 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Making sure not to note the idiocy of the right-wing attack on Obama's school speech, the WashPost, like most Beltway news outlets, carefully avoids telling the truth about this brain-dead controversy ...

Think of it this way. Imagine right-wingers had launched an hysterical crusade about how Obama was going to scare school children with a speech about invading aliens. But then the White House released the text of the speech and--voilà!--no mention of invading aliens, would the Post then print up a headline, "President Seeks to Avoid Aliens in Speech to Schools"?

The sad part is, considering how the press now willingly allows itself to be led around by the GOP Noise Machine, I'm afraid the answer would be yes, the Post would publish that headline ...

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