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Ombudsman Defends WaPo on FaFu

(GunReports.com) -- Patrick B. Pexton, the Washington Post's so-called ombudsman, defends his meal ticket's work on barely reporting Operation Fast & Furious. His unsurprising bottom line: "No news outlet covers every story perfectly. Nor do they reach the conclusions that ideologues on the left or right want. But The Post has acquitted itself well on Fast and Furious."

Laughable. He can be reached at 202-334-7582 or at Ombudsman@WashPost.com. Don't expect him to pick up.

But before you call or write, here is his defense of the paper that pays his salary:

Slow on the draw on Fast and Furious?
Conservatives have alleged that The Post has ignored this story because the paper’s editorial board, or more generally Post reporters, are liberal and pro-gun-control. The more outrageous conservative critics have even accused Post reporters of somehow being complicit in Terry’s death because an award-winning series The Post published in December, “The Hidden Life of Guns,” did not reveal Operation Fast and Furious and its missteps.

I have looked at all of the Post coverage, including December’s series, and the 16 stories The Post published between Jan. 31 and July 27 this year that were wholly or in part about Fast and Furious (all can be found at www.WashingtonPost.com). I have talked to the reporters and editors in charge of this coverage.

I think the conservative critics’ charges are unsubstantiated.

The Post was one of the first news outlets in the country, on Feb. 1, to break the news of the connection between Fast and Furious guns and Terry’s death. And a full report on the operation and its many faults, by staff writer Sari Horwitz, published on July 26, is one of the two best stories to date on the subject.

www.WashingtonPost.com/opinions.

Reader Comments

Washington Post is a hopeless joke of a news source. Their stories are printed at the 8th grade level and they have the same small but vocal cheerleader squad making up their readers' forums. I sign on every now and then just to rip them politely with documented facts on their anti-2nd amendment stories. Surprisingly, CBS is the lead reporting mainstream news medium concerning Operation Fast and Furious. I guess they know this thing is too big to not bust wide open this spring.

Comment by: Nanjing03 | August 19, 2011

Truthfully, the WaPo has not been as aggressive about this story, usually picking up on CBS's investigations after the story is in print, or ... God forbid ... echoing the dreaded Fox News. I am a teacher and since I had the summer off (the summer job fell through), I spent a lot of time participating in readers' forums online because I know they are read by administration and congressional staff members to keep a sort of pulse on the mood of the public. Even the LA Times, Reuters, and the very liberal Huffington Post carried the story on a regular bases. The slackards were Houston Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Boston Globe. The Houston Chronicle even tried to do some covering up of their own through omission. The NY Times followed the story without an opinion, but never invited reader comments. Overall though, the American people are angry over Eric Holder and his upper level goons. The day a House-Senate committee begins daily televised hearings with DOJ/BATFE officials under oath and their personal lawyers in tow is the day Obama gets an early start on his packing up.

Comment by: Nanjing03 | August 19, 2011

While it is probably true that there are worse offenders than the Washington Post in the non-reporting of the Fast & Furious issues, it is far from being on the leading edge. This is, of course, the same news outlet that reported daily on every Watergate detail. But now we have a President that the WaPo loves as opposed to one it hated. News slanting? Oh no, it couldn't possibly be that.

Comment by: Visigoth52 | August 21, 2011

@Visigoth52, I agree that WaPo is intentionally downgrading the Fast and Furious fiasco, after all, we can, and should expect that from the president's "cheerleading squad," a shameful title that even WaPo does not deny. The good news is that the once immovable liberal mainstream media is now splitting over this story as the Obama administration hammers nails in it's own coffin with failures like the failed stimulous, Obama-Care, a failed foreign policy, failure to enact an energy policy, failure to enforce the defense of marriage law, failure to resume DADT, open attempts to usurp the 1st and 2nd Amendment, and their tacit support of abortion. Basically, WaPo has already picked sides and they will not be deterred to change their ways. The only appropriate reation to their attacks is to go on the offensive through their readers' forums, and the forums of other MSM online outlets. Your reader comments, based on facts and presented in a polite manner, will put them and their supporters in their place and even enlist other readers to see your point and go likewise go on the offensive.

Comment by: Nanjing03 | August 21, 2011

Why has there been no mention of the 10 million dollars earmarked for "project Gunrunner" alias "Fast and Furious"? And also of a copy of this operation taking place in Tampa. Guns are going into Mexico by the front and back door. Everybody in DC claims to know nothing about this but the voted it in along with "Cash for Clunkers" This is a coverup that rivals Watergate.

Comment by: wilecoyote | August 21, 2011