The Washington Post’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

By Madeline Osburn:

Reporting misconstrued facts, making knowingly deceptive omissions, and writing columns defending terrorists are just a few things Washington Post journalists were up to this week.

Considering the current state of our media class, cataloging a single newspaper’s patterns of journalistic malpractice is a seemingly pointless task. And yet, when a publication claims to be the purveyor of preventing our democracy from dying in darkness, the importance of cataloging its very dark week becomes imperative — you know, for democracy’s sake.

Here’s how the Washington Post’s banner week in bad journalism went down.

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