ARNOLD KLING
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The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Judging by the dates, he wasn't successful?
More generally, strewth. What a gall!
Sounds more like a run-in with Spencer Rich than with the Washington Post.
More anecdotes, please.
Every outlet is biased, and I agree that on balance US newspapers tend to be left leaning.
Yesterday and today's anecdotes don't really strengthen the case that there is a systematic liberal bias, but they are amusing stories.
I like how one can clearly set out that the story you are about to relate isn't about media bias and people will still think that's what you're talking about and criticize you because the story doesn't go toward proving media bias.
It's like people have their own internal narrative and are more wed to that than to actually reading what is written.
@RWK
They're statist, which does not automatically imply left-leaning. It's not like the fourth branch of government disappeared during the Bush years...
Wow... I imagine not based on your reaction, but my first thought was 'was he joking?'
I too interacted with Spencer Rich years ago. None of this surprises me. BTW, on health care and entitlement issues, Rich WAS the Washington Post.
@John Jenkins and John Goodman,
Thanks.
@guthrie,
Clearly he was joking. I didn't tremble at what he could do to me. But it was a bullying joke in bad taste.
@J. Daniel Wright,
More anecdotes to follow. One is a contrast between how Spencer Rich reported on a policy issue and how Robert Pear of the NYT reported on the same issue. That contrast heightened my respect for Pear.