[umanwizard]

> WaPo ... has a good track record.

Sure, if you go back to the Watergate investigation.

Their track record in recent years is abysmal. They are basically the pseudo-official mouthpiece of the U.S. Democratic Party, and somewhere between the New York Times and the Huffington Post in terms of seriousness.

[krastanov]

If we are sticking to soundbites I can simply respond with "Reality has a liberal bias".

When facts aling with a policy idea this makes the policy good, not the facts wrong (and we should applaud both parties when they do it). I do not read every single article in WaPo but their front page and push notifications are most of the time fact based.

[umanwizard]

I said nothing about liberal ideology. I mentioned a specific organization: the U.S. Democratic Party.

That party hated Bernie Sanders (who is plenty “liberal”[1]) nearly as much as it hated Trump, and both were covered very negatively by the Washington Post.

I don’t know why you assume I’m criticizing the Post from a right-wing perspective. Perhaps you are too steeped in the two-sided U.S. political culture, where disliking one party must mean liking the other?

By the way, reporting objectively correct facts does not make a publication unbiased or serious. Even if everything TMZ reports about celebrity relationships is true, do you consider them a serious news source? Deciding which facts to emphasize is just as important as telling the truth.

[1] To head off in advance any off-topic responses: this is true regardless of whether you mean “liberal” in the American or European sense.

[krastanov]

Yup, I did assume it was that type of critique, my bad. I do not have an answer that would be satisfing however:

- While I like Senator Sanders, reasonable people (I would like to believe I am one) can have stuff to dislike about his policies. This is how I view the non "alt right" complaints about him.

- Being more to the center than someone else, does not make you a mouthpiece for the centrist party.

Edit: I misread your comment again. I deleted an unrelated response.