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• Wash. Post's Weisman ignored actual criteria used in study finding McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time
  Friday, September 5, 2008
• Media ignore "bridge to nowhere" falsehood in Palin speech, despite having previously flagged it
  Thursday, September 4, 2008
• Print media report that Lieberman attacked Obama at RNC without noting he had pledged not to
  Wednesday, September 3, 2008
• Novak cites Palin's purported "loathing for earmarks," but not her repeated requests for them
  Wednesday, September 3, 2008
• Wash. Post editorial claimed McCain "insisted on his more humane approach" to immigration, but not that he no longer supports it
  Monday, September 1, 2008
• Print media reported McCain ad congratulating Obama, ignored McCain attacks on the same day
  Friday, August 29, 2008
• Media uncritically report McCain camp's assertion that Obama "voted against funds for American troops in harm's way"
  Friday, August 29, 2008
• Media bury, ignore Leach speech at Democratic National Convention
  Tuesday, August 26, 2008
• Media continue to repeat plagiarism accusation without noting that Biden had previously credited Kinnock
  Sunday, August 24, 2008
• Media don't challenge false claim that Obama vacationed on a "private beach in Hawaii"
  Friday, August 22, 2008
• AP, Wash. Post fail to report ties between Swift Boat Vets, ad attacking Obama
  Friday, August 22, 2008
• Wash. Post uncritically reports McCain ad's false suggestion that Obama wrote letters for Rezko's project in 1998 "in return" for help ... in 2005
  Friday, August 22, 2008
• Wash. Post purported to give both sides of "Born-Alive" bill dispute, but left out Illinois' reported position
  Wednesday, August 20, 2008
• Print reports ignore tension between McCain's assertion that human rights begin at conception and support for stem cell research
  Wednesday, August 20, 2008
• Wash. Post ignored McCain flip-flop on Falwell as an "agent of intolerance," McCain's pastor problems
  Sunday, August 17, 2008
• Wash. Post reported voter's concern that Obama "will raise taxes" without noting Obama proposes cutting taxes for low- and middle-income families
  Friday, August 15, 2008
• Wash. Post repeats falsehood about why Casey was denied 1992 convention speaking slot
  Thursday, August 14, 2008
• Wash. Post cropped Obama quote in purporting to contrast Obama's and McCain's identities as Americans
  Tuesday, August 12, 2008
• Wash. Post ombudsman admonishes Milbank for using anonymous source, imputing meaning to secondhand quote
  Sunday, August 10, 2008
• Weisman contradicts Milbank's claim that both reporters believe disputed version of Obama's "symbol" quote "was correct as written"
  Friday, August 8, 2008

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