WAPO CONTINUES CAMPAIGN FOR GALLAUDET ADMINISTRATION. I have previously criticized the Washington Post's coverage of the Gallaudet protest movement against the university's new president as being slanted towards the administration and against the protestors. Well, case in point: today at 2pm they are doing a live chat with the new president, Jane K. Fernandes, on their website, with no countervailing voice from the other side of the issue, even though the clear majority of the Gallaudet community opposes Fernandes. This is after they gave Fernandes a space on the op-ed page, and editorialized in her favor, and subtly favored her in (mostly fair) news articles. Before, I simply chalked this up to the fact that the Post has the same establishmentarian bias as most of the elite media. But the favoritism is becoming so clear and inexplicable I'm racking my brain for a conceivable ulterior motive.
--Ben Adler
