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...message was clear. Not only would Will and his editors at the editorial page not apologize for misleading their readers, but the ombudsman, supposedly the readers’ voice at the paper, would defend the distortions. At every level, the Washington Post is prepared to support writers who lie in its pages...
Despite these lies and mischaracterizations, Alexander, in his e-mail, refused to censure Will for the piece. Not only that, he echoed approvingly the Post editorial board’s statement that it “checks facts to the fullest extent possible” and even defended one of Will’s more egregious lies from the column...
...February 19, 2009, it is acceptable to lie in the pages of the Washington Post. There is no other way to interpret the e-mail that the paper’s ombudsman, Andrew Alexander, sent to reporter Pat Johnson that day, excusing a blatantly error-riddled column on global warming by George Will that the Post had published earlier in the week...
While obviously reflecting badly on Will, this incident also concerns the staff of the Post. The value of an established institution like the Washington Post is the trust its readers place in it. When someone reads an issue of the Post, they expect that the factual assertions contained therein are correct because of the Post’s reputation. By printing a column that the most rudimentary fact-checking would have exposed as fatally flawed, the Post has broken that trust...
...their opinion pages. But the old Pat Moynihan quote, “Everyone is entitled to his opinion, but not his own facts,” is a cliché for good reason. By printing and defending George Will’s lies about climate science, the Washington Post has deceived its readers, and undermined its credibility as a journalistic enterprise...