A guy who was implicated in Bush election-rigging efforts in 2000 and 2004, and who was cooperating with investigators, has died in a plane crash after warnings that his plane could be sabotaged.
Coincidence? Ask Paul Wellstone, another burr under the Bush saddle. Oh, wait, you can't -- he died in a plane crash.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Improving the Washington Post
Deborah Howell is the outgoing ombudsman for the Washington Post. She has published her list of New Year's resolutions for the Post, and as has often been the case during her tenure, she misses a lot of the really important stuff. I'm so glad she was being so well paid.
The Post needs writers, editors and, yes, ombudsmen with the guts to call out war crimes for what they are. Serious journalists would go read Geneva -- the language is very straightforward -- and then look at the confirmed records of our leaders and call them out. The Post's refusal to do so represents the grossest moral failing. (And for the Post to devote all the resources it did to Bill Clinton's extramarital affair and downplay or ignore the criminal -- yes, criminal -- activities of the Bush administration is the grossest hypocrisy.) Not only is that moral failing inherently evil, it also leads to a lack of consequences for the bad actors, thereby making similar future crimes more likely.
Given the Post's timid coverage of the Bush's administration's war crimes, the blood of people yet unborn will be on the newspaper's hands.
The Post needs writers, editors and, yes, ombudsmen with the guts to call out war crimes for what they are. Serious journalists would go read Geneva -- the language is very straightforward -- and then look at the confirmed records of our leaders and call them out. The Post's refusal to do so represents the grossest moral failing. (And for the Post to devote all the resources it did to Bill Clinton's extramarital affair and downplay or ignore the criminal -- yes, criminal -- activities of the Bush administration is the grossest hypocrisy.) Not only is that moral failing inherently evil, it also leads to a lack of consequences for the bad actors, thereby making similar future crimes more likely.
Given the Post's timid coverage of the Bush's administration's war crimes, the blood of people yet unborn will be on the newspaper's hands.
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