The Washington Post

Media Reporting. Organizations like The Washington Post have a “credible” media face, but are allowed to promote hatemongering and sensationalism. Writer/Blogger Radly Balko’s bio indicates he reports and writes opinions on criminal justice and civil liberties, but in truth he disparages the police. He provides no perspective or counterargument to his rhetoric. Balko holds up every police action and tars one and all. There are many like him, writers and bloggers with only one opinion, one side…

Reviewing an article in the Washington post juxtaposed to a piece by Zora Hurston, it became increasingly apparent that the healthcare system was and still is not sequestered from racial prejudice. Hurston, renowned African American writer and anthropologist, described a trip to a doctor’s office in 1931. She recounted how she was halfheartedly “treated” in a room that she would come to describe as a “closet filled with soiled lien.” The doctor, a white male, clearly indicated his distaste for…

Vance Gosselin Prof. Norling PHIL A120 MW 15 Nov. 2016 Response Paper “As a sheriff, I know that jail is not always the answer” written by Al Cannon Jr. for The Washington Post is an opinion piece that challenges the idea that all law-breaking offenders including those that commit nonviolent offences are deserving of jail time. The piece begins with the example of a young mother reported shoplifting groceries by store officials at a Walmart store in Charleston, South Carolina. This example…

Jianghao Wang Autobiographical Essay While I was walking in Washington Post Office with Joey Marburger in this past May, as part of PICC’s Washington Maymester program, I was so astonished seeing how close the technical team work with production team. It reminded me the efforts I put in trying to make more information accessible to the public readers as a contributor to a Chinese technology blog. There are mainly two reasons why I would like to get involved in news industry. The very first…

A Professor of Law at George Mason University wrote an article about the jury nullification in the Washington Post. In it he focuses of various aspects that make this process so interesting and contradicting. The author give his personal view on jury nullification and his initial attitude toward it. Jury nullification can be seen as a two edged sword, because it is not applied on constant and consistent basis. The author, Ilya Somin agrees that it can curb unjust laws, however it…

In The Washington Post, author and teacher Marion Brady issued an unexpected and judicious message: “Schools need a complete transformation in what and how students learn.” Not soon after, Brady speaks discusses the flawed exercise of standardized testing and claims, “Using the scores on standardized tests to shape the life chances of kids, determine the pay and reputations of teachers, gauge the quality of school administrators, establish the worth of neighborhood schools, or as an excuse to…

Colbert King Colbert King is a columnist for The Washington Post, and focuses on urban and national affairs. King was born on September 20, 1939 in Washington, D.C. He attended DC Public Schools, and earned a B.A in government from Howard University. Prior to working at the Washington Post, “King worked at the U.S. embassy in Bonn, in the Senate drafting home-rule legislation for D.C, and the World Bank as the U.S. executive director”(The washington post, n.d). In 2000 until 2007, King was…

Frankfurter. After Philip served in the army during WWII, Katharine’s father persuaded him to join his wife as an associate publisher for The Washington Post. In 1948, Eugene Meyer sold the company to Philip Graham for just $1. Philip helped improve the popularity and widespread reading of the newspaper, helping it beat out the prior competition, including The Washington Times Herald and Newsweek magazine. The Graham’s marriage could have been said to be rocky and was full of rough patches. A…

The First Woman CEO Katherine Graham is known as one of the most influential women ever in business. She was the first woman CEO in the U.S. taking over the position at the Washington Post previously held by her husband. Graham, however, is most known for her outstanding coverage of the Watergate scandal. This leadership she showed in these two aspects of her career, gave many other women the courage to pursue careers outside of being a housewife. Katherine Graham was so influential in fact, she…

Post Reconstruction Era: Booker T. Washington Despite the calls for a New South in the years after the Reconstruction era, Jim Crow segregation was still present in every aspect of American society, fueling tensions between African Americans and whites. This is because following the events after the Civil War, the ratifications of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments after the 1863 Emancipation, established a new and unwelcomed reality for many whites which therefore fueled much of their violence…