Rep. John Conyers on Ben Domenech Coretta King Communist comments

The Post's New Blogger Calls Coretta Scott King a Communist - On the Day of Her Funeral
I spoke on these pages yesterday lamenting the Washington Post's decision to hire a blogger from RedState.org for its featured blog, Red America. I am further perplexed to learn that...

I spoke on these pages yesterday lamenting the Washington Post's decision to hire a blogger from RedState.org for its featured blog, Red America. I am further perplexed to learn that this blogger, Ben Domenech, in addition to possessing few journalistic credentials, has exhibited a practice for right wing, inflammatory rhetoric that should in no case pass for journalism.

I was further dismayed to learn that, on the passing of Coretta Scott King, one of our nation's most revered civil rights leaders, Domenech showed his respects by calling her a communist. He has since called Democrats the Party of Death.

That the Washington Post has felt the need to hire someone who places bombast ahead of journalistic integrity shows what kind of commitment the paper has to honest journalism and where it sees its future.

I will be making my views known to the paper. I encourage the rest of you to join me, by sending the paper a message through Media Matter's website.

http://www.conyersblog.us/archives/00000409.htm

Also letter from Rep. Peter Stark. http://mediamatters.org/static/pdf/stark-20060322-redamerica.pdf

Glad this is blowing up in the WPost's face with the plagiarism discoveries today.

most dont have time for links in overworked downsized bush america

He's hired red state blogger who used to work for BushCo and doesn't have much of a journalism background and insulted Coretta Scott King and those who knew her on the day of her funeral. Brady needs to hire someone on the left to blog the other side, or get rid of this red state crackpot entirely.

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