The new Janet Cooke at the Washington Post

Feeling better about cancelling my Washington Post subscription. From The Washington Post Lies About a Conservative Journalist by John Hinderaker.

I identify at least the following journalistic sins.

Bias.

One-sided bias.

Quoting out of context.

Conjoining different quotes from different contexts.

Making things up from whole cloth.

More specifically:

So the bottom line is that the Washington Post reached out to Katherine Kersten for a comment on its article. They got a comment, but didn’t print a word of it. Instead, the Post took a whopping two words from a column Kathy wrote a year and a half ago, on a topic that was not the subject of the Post’s article. To add insult to injury, it added a quote from a far-left activist who called Kathy a “flat-out racist.”

This does seem to go beyond actual error into simple ideological rhetoric.