About media bias
Most journalists are liberal -- that's no shocker to anyone who reads this blog or a daily newspaper for that matter. However, one of the tenets of American journalism continues to be that journalists set aside their biases and do their best to try and be fair and objective. Unfortunately for the Washington Post's White House beat reporter Dana Milbank, you can't be fair and objective in this get-up.
[pic via Michelle Malkin]
I suppose Milbank is trying to be funny. What this is a picture of, unfortunately, is Milbank failing to be funny. I'm trying to recall if Newsweek's Michael Isikoff went on cable TV shows after the Monica Lewinsky story broke wearing a beret. Or if any reporters have ever shown up to a Teddy Kennedy press conference wearing one of these:
Michelle Malkin is suggesting that readers e-mail the ombudsman. I suspect that the answer the ombudsman will give is that Milbank's stunt was unacceptable. The real question is whether or not his superiors will, at the very least, publicly rebuke him. I'm not going to hold my breath on that.
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