How to Write Like a Socialist – Bernie Sanders and Media Subversion

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media When The Wall Street Journal discovered that the price tag of Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) proposals would be in the neighborhood of a staggering $18 trillion, Washington Post blogger Paul Waldman went into action. Waldman, also a senior writer with the “liberal” American Prospect magazine, figured out a way to make socialism seem positively beneficial for all and … [Read more...]

Washington Post Engages in Propaganda Exercise against Benghazi Conference (Update, Video)

DC Independent Examiner, Accuracy in Media Initial publication, June 17 Heritage Video: "Benghazi: The Difference It Makes Is Accountability!" The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column on Monday titled “Heritage’s ugly Benghazi panel,” portraying a forum held the same day at the Heritage Foundation, hosted by the newly formed Benghazi Accountability Coalition, as nothing more than an anti-Islamic … [Read more...]

Weekly Featured Profile – 03/16/12 – Harold Meyerson

KeyWiki Harold Meyerson Harold Meyerson is an op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and from 1989-2001 worked as Executive Editor and Political Editor of the LA Weekly. He is considered one of the most astute commentators on Los Angeles politics. Meyerson is also a long-time Vice-Chair of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest socialist organization in the United States. Who is this … [Read more...]

Post Ignores Sexual Assaults in Wall Street Protests

Accuracy in Media I read the Washington Post article, “Violence and the occupy movement,” expecting to see a discussion of the sexual assaults and rapes being reported during the Wall Street protests. Instead, the author, Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, writes about “the violence of systems that create and sustain economic and social injustice on a wide scale.” She is apparently talking about capitalism, a system … [Read more...]