Washington Post's Reporting Problem

Seems the Washington Post is always getting it wrong.  Newsbuster Tim Graham notes that the WaPo "gave the badly attended Earth Day Rally on Sunday a whitewash on the front page of the Metro section."


He goes on to compare WaPo's Earth Day coverage to this year's March for Life coverage in January.

So let's review: Earth Day organizers expected "tens of thousands" and drew 40. It received a large color photo (mother with child, avoid the "crowd" shot) and a front-page Metro story. In January, the March for Life turned out tens of thousands and it received two large color photos (one of an opponent) -- one of and a front-page Metro story (and avoided a crowd shot). Post ombudsman Patrick Pexton nudged this quote from Post local editor Vernon Loeb: “In retrospect I wish we had given readers a better sense of the overall magnitude of the march. . .it was far larger than 17,000.”