The Washington Post continues its abominable, one-sided coverage of the Madison protests. The p. 3 story today, by Brady Dennis and Peter Wallsten with no dateline, again parrots Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, adopting his narrative throughout, with no counter-balancing comments or perspective from the unions. In fact, there does not appear to be a single live quote in the long story -- that is, a quote that does not come from a public appearance available to all media or a press release.
The reporters should be ashamed of themselves. The national editor or whoever is responsible for this coverage should be ashamed of himself or herself, and Marcus Brauchli should be ashamed of himself for letting the newspaper that made Watergate happen sink to this level.
The story does deal with the prank call from Ian Murphy, posing as David Koch, to Walker. Instead of exposing Walker to the ridicule he deserves for being taken in by this hoax, the reporters simply quote his affirmation to the faux Koch that "This is our moment."
Would it really kill these full-time staff reporters to pick up the phone and talk to somebody at the unions?
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