Media Matters - Deborah Howell

Media Matters - Deborah Howell http://mediamatters.org/tools/syndication/tag_rss/deborah_howell This link is for use by RSS-enabled software to retrieve Media Matters items matching the term: Deborah Howell en-US Copyright 2008, Media Matters for America Media Matters CIA leak case "dishonor" roll http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 http://mediamatters.org/items/200703060017 Tue, 6 Mar 2007 18:18:30 EST Letter to Wash. Post ombudsman re: Solomon article http://mediamatters.org/items/200701250011 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701250011 Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:19:44 EST Wash. Post's Howell breaks own rule in criticizing liberal Meyerson http://mediamatters.org/items/200701020001 http://mediamatters.org/items/200701020001 Tue, 2 Jan 2007 10:51:02 EST Wash. Post ombudsman Howell misrepresented former Post reporter Edsall's conclusions on media bias http://mediamatters.org/items/200611130008 In her column, Deborah Howell misrepresented Thomas Edsall's views on the purported liberalism of most journalists. Although Edsall asserted, as Howell reported, that "most journalists he knew were liberal" during a radio appearance, he explained in a subsequent online chat that, while many of its members are indeed liberal, the press at large is "inclined to lean over backwards not to offend critics from the right" and that the right wing's "campaign against the media ... has turned the press into an unwilling, and often unknowing, ally of the right." http://mediamatters.org/items/200611130008 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:51:07 EST Wash. Post ombudsman Howell again displayed misunderstanding of difference between fact and opinion http://mediamatters.org/items/200609160006 Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell again conflated objections to factual errors and differences of opinion to dismiss readers' complaints against a Post editorial about the Valerie Plame case. The editorial contained demonstrable falsehoods previously exposed by the Post's own reporting, as Media Matters for America documented. http://mediamatters.org/items/200609160006 Sat, 16 Sep 2006 15:15:09 EST Post ombudsman defended editorial's falsehoods as a difference in "views" http://mediamatters.org/items/200604170001 In a column purportedly explaining the inconsistencies between The Washington Post's April 9 editorial titled "A Good Leak" and an article published the same day by staff writers Barton Gellman and Dafna Linzer, Post ombudsman Deborah Howell suggested the principal reason for the differences in the two pieces was that reporters and editorial writers "can see things quite differently." But the editorial did not merely advocate a position; it did so with numerous false statements. http://mediamatters.org/items/200604170001 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:02:48 EST Despite past Froomkin criticisms, Post ombudsman Howell claimed washingtonpost.com's "Red America" controversy is outside her jurisdiction http://mediamatters.org/items/200603240008 Responding to readers inquiring about the controversy surrounding washingtonpost.com's recently resigned Republican activist blogger Ben Domenech, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell refused to comment on the matter, claiming that the Post and washingtonpost.com are separate entities "under totally different management." But in December 2005, Howell did comment on washingtonpost.com, characterizing blogger Dan Froomkin's online-only "White House Briefing" column as "highly opinionated and liberal." Further, if Howell's jurisdiction as the Post's ombudsman does not encompass the Washington Post website, as she suggests, then who is the ombudsman for washingtonpost.com? http://mediamatters.org/items/200603240008 Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:12:07 EST Wash. Post's Deborah Howell misfires, ignoring falsehoods in Milbank article http://mediamatters.org/items/200602190002 In her February 19 column, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell claimed that liberals have complained that Post columnist and reporter Dana Milbank has "skewered Democrats." But Howell said next to nothing about complaints liberals have registered about Milbank's work. Instead, she simply wrote that liberals have objected to Milbank's columns "skewer[ing] Democrats" and made no effort to consider the actual flaws in his January 31 column, including at least one outright falsehood and one distortion. http://mediamatters.org/items/200602190002 Sun, 19 Feb 2006 17:12:54 EST Wash. Post ombudsman's new policy: "From now on, I don't reply" http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180006 Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has reportedly posted on the Post's internal message board -- specifically mentioning a reply she made to a Media Matters item, which she claimed "just brought another attack" -- "From now on, I don't reply." http://mediamatters.org/items/200601180006 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:21:19 EST Post's Kurtz on ombudsman Howell's false Abramoff claims: "inartfully worded," could "have been more accurate" http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170013 In an online chat, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz acknowledged that Post ombudsman Deborah Howell's false claims that Democrats received campaign contributions from Jack Abramoff were "inartfully worded" and could "have been more accurate." http://mediamatters.org/items/200601170013 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:42:33 EST Post ombudsman Howell twice falsely claimed Democrats received contributions from Abramoff http://mediamatters.org/items/200601150001 Deborah Howell, the Washington Post ombudsman, falsely asserted twice that Democrats received contributions from Jack Abramoff. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601150001 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:26:47 EST Wash. Post ombudsman responds to Media Matters http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100008 The Washington Post ombudsman has responded to a recent Media Matters item. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100008 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 18:03:43 EST Wash. Post ombudsman endorses practice of printing misleading -- even false -- Bush administration claims without rebuttal http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004 In a post on her internal weblog, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell has reportedly endorsed the practice of printing misleading -- even false -- Bush administration claims without including a word of rebuttal to those claims. http://mediamatters.org/items/200601100004 Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:09:08 EST