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One wonders where The Post expects D.C. voters to get information about candidates and issues if not, at least in part, from our local paper.

A study released this week of the four biggest newspapers in the United States said that in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, there was “a dramatic shift in coverage away from nearly a century of practice recognizing waterboarding as torture.”

The IPCC report runs to four volumes and thousands of footnotes. A typo, an inappropriate source and a mistake that's irrelevant to any important argument are the evidence that The Post provides as support for the critics.

Katharine Seelye, the reporter, said she was trying to explain why Medicare-for-all was not going anywhere and provided links online to arguments for it. “I thought the substance of it had been dealt with elsewhere many times,” she said. But The Times had not seriously explored the issue during the current debate, and I thought FAIR had a point.

Reviewing almost 10,000 reports from Feb. 1 to Aug. 31 in newspapers, on news Web sites, on the radio and on network broadcast and cable television, Pew found that almost 40 percent of economic news reports dealt with the trials of the banking and auto industries, and the federal stimulus bill passed in February.

Unemployment and the housing crisis accounted for 12 percent. And, the study said, “stories that tried to explicitly examine the broader impact of the economic downturn on the lives of ordinary Americans filled 5 percent of the economic coverage.”

But this mood isn’t just about the banks, Public Enemy No. 1. What the Great Recession has crystallized is a larger syndrome that Obama tapped into during the campaign. It’s the sinking sensation that the American game is rigged — that, as the president typically put it a month after his inauguration, the system is in hock to “the interests of powerful lobbyists or the wealthiest few” who have “run Washington far too long.” He promised to smite them.

No president can do that alone, let alone in six months. To make Obama’s goal more quixotic, the ailment that he diagnosed is far bigger than Washington and often beyond politics’ domain. What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand, from commercial transactions as trivial as the sales of prime concert tickets to cultural forces as pervasive as the news media.

The July 21 event, focusing on health care reform, “guaranteed” a “collegial evening” with health industry advocates, Post journalists covering the field and administration officials involved with its policies.

I disagree with Diehl's conclusion that in the Obama administration "being Palestinian is easy." Rather, I think that Diehl and The Post's editorial board are easy on Israel's hawkish leaders.

I agree with the May 7 editorial "No Questions Asked," opposing unconditional U.S. support for the repressive and autocratic regime in Egypt. But I wonder why you don't hold the same position regarding U.S. support for Egypt's neighbor Israel. The United States sends Israel more than $3 billion annually.

When it comes to Post coverage, how many peaceful activists does it take to equal one vandal? If you were advising our youth, would you suggest that they start destroying personal property as the only way for their efforts to be noticed?