Emails show Washington Post reporter coordinated attorney firing story with White House

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/08/11/emails-show-washington-post-reporter-coordinated-attorney-firing-story-with-white-house/

By Muriel Kane

Published: August 11, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago

When a scandal involving the Bush administration’s firing of US Attorneys broke in early 2007, initial coverage by the Washington Post supported the idea that the firings had been politically motivated. That approach, however, quickly changed to one that was far more friendly to the White House.

The House Judiciary Committee has now released over 5400 pages of Bush administration and Republican Party emails (pdf) related to the firings. Several of these emails suggest coordination between Post reporter John Solomon and Bush administration officials on how to manage the Post’s coverage of the widening scandal.

[TexasObserver]

1. Recommend

[Trocadero]

33. yourletters @ washingtontimes.com and more email addresses here:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

[Oilwellian]

38. The article states "Washington Post" n/t

On edit: after reading the thread further, I see he's now with the Washington Times. At the time he was carrying water for the Bush crime family though, he was with the WP. IMHO, both newspapers aren't worthy of even being asswipe.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Toss inthe Editorial page and you have ANOTHER right wing rag

[Chemisse]

3. No Pullitzer for that reporter!

Whatever happened to the good, old-fashioned expose, consequences be damned?

The media is simply in the toilet if we can't even rely upon a reputable paper to be objective.

[moonbatmax]

28. That gives me an idea for a NEW journalism award:

:bounce: The "Pull It, Sir!" Prize! :bounce:

To be presented each year to those journalists who best exemplify the NEW journalistic standards of...

• Stifling the voice of dissent! (Unless approved)


• Killing any story unflattering to the Party of Choice!


• Burying all evidence of wrongdoing by the Powers That Be!

:patriot: Expand and Improve upon this list at your pleasure! :patriot:

(Edit for (even more) obnoxious effect)

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Hmmmm....

"Librul media". :popcorn:

[babylonsister]

5. Could it possibly be this John Solomon?

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Solomon

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John Solomon is the executive editor of the Washington Times. He was named to the position in January 2008, replacing the retiring Wesley Pruden.<1>

Solomon had been the Associated Press's assistant bureau chief in Washington, DC, from 1999 to June 2005, when he was appointed to the new role of director of multimedia investigative reporting.<2> In December 2006, Solomon left the AP to join the Washington Post, where he was in charge of an investigative unit.<3>

"Solomon joined the AP in 1987 in Milwaukee. As news editor there, he supervised coverage of the Jeffrey Dahmer serial murders and an investigative project that revealed teachers who had molested children had been allowed to return to the classroom. In response to the investigative stories, the state of Wisconsin changed it laws to keep convicted molesters out of school for good.

"Solomon transferred in 1991 to Washington, where he has served as a reporter, editor of the bureau's enterprise team, news editor and assistant bureau chief. Solomon has played key roles in reporting and editing during some of the capital's biggest stories, including the Clinton-era fund-raising and impeachment scandals and the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

[Emit]

11. And from that link

Both Aravosis @ Americablog and Mediamatters was on to him:

# John Aravosis, "John Solomon of Associated Press botches Rove story," AMERICAblog, July 15, 2005.
# A.S., "AP omitted Dorgan's response to alleged Abramoff link," Media Matters for America, November 30, 2005.
# "AP continued to mislead on purported Abramoff-Reid link," Media Matters for America, February 13, 2006.
# John Aravosis, "Three more AP John Solomon articles faulted for taking pot-shots at Dems, leaving out key facts," AMERICAblog, May 29, 2006.
# Greg Sargent, "More Evidence That John Solomon's Story on John Edwards' House Sale is Questionable," The Horse's Mouth/Talking Points Memo, January 19, 2007.
# John Aravosis, "Wash Post ombudsman slaps reporter John Solomon for John Edwards hit piece," AMERICAblog, January 28, 2007.
# "Wash. Post's Solomon -- whose 'investigations' fuel right-wing attacks -- suggested Clinton nonprofit is somehow corrupt", Media Matters for America, March 1, 2007.
# "Thompson's role as Nixon mole in Watergate probe absent from Solomon's Wash. Post story", Media Matters for America, July 26, 2007.
# "Wash. Post's Solomon ignored facts in reporting distribution of Obama's Hopefund contributions", Media Matters for America, November 30, 2007.
# "Wash. Times' new executive editor, John Solomon, has history of distortion", Media Matters for America, January 15, 2008.
# "Times Men Pruden and Coombs Welcome Postie Solomon", U.S. News & World Report, March 26, 2008.

[UpInArms]

31. executive editor of the Washington Times

ahhhh!

how I hate the smell of bad journalism in the evening (or morning for that matter)>

[lurky]

6. Not surprised, but...

It's nice having confirmation.

[John1956PA]

7. Solomon showed his rightward bias in his May 2006 hit piece on Harry Reid.

Solomon's story, written for the AP at that time, stated that Sen. Reid accepted free boxing tickets in violation of of his ethical duty to remain neutral on pending boxing legislation. The accusation was false. Sen. Reid attended a match for legitimate reasons, and the seating pass which he received was not a perquisite. In another AP piece at about that time, Solomon made the false accusation that Sen. Reid benefited from a conflict of interest in a Nevada land development deal. It is not surprising that Solomon wound up at the Washington Times.

[snot]

8. [self-delete]

[marmar]

9. Woe is the WaPo......

We're a long way from Watergate now, aren't we?

[disndat]

32. Wapo has been taken over

by George Will and the AIPAC leaning crowd. Bush cheerleaders, bigtime.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Maybe with Specter on the Dem side, something can get done about all this.

Maybe.
Better yet, I hope a real Dem. wins his seat next year.

[myrna minx]

12. K&R n/t

[Wednesdays]

13. K&R

:kick:

[yodermon]

14. TPM has had the goods on John Fucking Solomon for years.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/cats/john_solomon/

When he was with the AP he did several hit pieces on Harry Reid, for which he AP praised him mightily. :puke:.
He's always been a faithful right-wing water carrier, as evidenced by his current editorship of the Moonie Times.

[MountainLaurel]

15. Very interesting

The Wash Post is having a live discussion about the attorney scandals today. I wonder if they'd have the ovaries to answer a question about this?

[glinda]

16. Refreshing to see some media shills caught up in this for a change.

[lovepg]

18. So its time for action start telling your representives to pull licenses,.....

and to break up the large news monopolies.

[surrealAmerican]

35. What licenses are you talking about?

Newspaper writing and publishing are not licensed professions.

[spanone]

17. the revelations are meaningless and only more frustrating if there are no investigations

and prosecutions

[xiamiam]

19. there have been hearings ad nauseum for everything...blackwater, war profiteering

downing street memos, wall street...no one ever gets prosecuted...libby an exception....

[eppur_se_muova]

20. If the NYT would fire Rick Bragg, WP should sure as hell fire this guy. nt

[grantcart]

21. He is already gone - now an editor at the Washington Times

big surprise right?

[eppur_se_muova]

22. Oh good -- so few people will take his work seriously now. :)

:evilgrin:

[ellie]

23. No Way!

The WaPo is a right wing tool? Who knew? Besides everyone, of course.

[Captain Hilts]

24. I am so glad I cancelled my subscription. nt

[XXXMADAM]

25. Reporters of Sextortion articles

I wonder who all of the reporters are that have been reporting on the various CIA/FBI Sextortion schemes?
MSM is used as a wmd for politicians & other officials who are blackmailed via Sex, if they don't comply they get outted and somebody is getting the stories to write and get published.

xxx
Prostitution, Blackmail, and Political Corruption By Agents of the United States
http://fbicorruption.250free.com

[Solly Mack]

26. K&R

[sasquatch]

27. Break out the guillotine

:rant:

[malaise]

29. Bravo M$Greedia

Your credibility is shot

[williesgirl]

30. So where were the Post editors when the reporting took a dive in the direction of the WH?

They should have been questioning what FACTS changed the position/slant of the stories. Just cause he moved on to the Moonie Times doesn't leave the Post off the hook. rec'd

[UpInArms]

39. cashin' their checks and clinkin' their glasses

at all the PROFITS that somehow were rollin' in and makin' 'em look like they knew what they were doin' (which they didn't)

and now the stuupid people have quit spending money they didn't have and the profits have all gone away and those cretins are looking exactly like the stupid fools they are.

[Kingofalldems]

34. And this is the home of Bernstein and Woodward

Shameful.

[Orsino]

36. Jesus. I hope they used condoms.

I'm not sure which party should be more worried about diseases.

[spanone]

37. the bu$h* administration will go down in history as the most corrupt ever..