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PostPosted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:40 am 
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The ombud at the Washington Post, happy to chew over endlessly a non-issue, but too chicken to name names. May murder defendants and boodling congressmen receive the same courtesy?

Is the Post ‘pro-gay’?

By Patrick B. Pexton, Published: February 22

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I get a steady stream of e-mails and phone calls from readers who assert that The Post has a “pro-gay agenda” and publishes too many “puffy” stories about gay marriage, and that it even allows too many same-sex couples to appear in the Date Lab feature in Sunday’s WP Magazine.

“The conservative, pro-family side gets short shrift,” as one reader recently put it, and The Post “caters slavishly to Dupont Circle.”

Indeed, that reader got into a vigorous three-way e-mail dialogue with a Post reporter and me over the issue, an exchange that goes to the heart of the question of whether The Post, and journalists in general, are hopelessly liberal and genetically tone-deaf to social conservatives.

Here are excerpts from that dialogue, with the reader’s and reporter’s names kept out of it at their requests.


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