The Washington Post’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

Reporting misconstrued facts, making knowingly deceptive omissions, and writing columns defending terrorists are just a few things Washington Post journalists were up to this week.

Considering the current state of our media class, cataloging a single newspaper’s patterns of journalistic malpractice is a seemingly pointless task. And yet, when a publication claims to be the purveyor of preventing our democracy from dying in darkness, the importance of cataloging its very dark week becomes imperative — you know, for democracy’s sake.

Here’s how the Washington Post’s banner week in bad journalism went down.

Sunday.

It started on Sunday with a bizarre obituary for the world’s most wanted terrorist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Someone decided the original headline that labeled Baghdadi a “terrorist-in-chief” needed to be sugar-coated and changed to “austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State.”

Social media exploded with similar versions of satirical headlines announcing the deaths of infamous historical figures, including the vegetarian Adolf Hitler and noted traveler Genghis Khan. A spokesperson for the paper, Kristine Coratti Kelly, later tweeted, “Regarding our al-Baghdadi obituary, the headline should never have read that way and we changed it quickly.” The headline was amended again to “extremist leader.”

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The Washington Post’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

The Washington Post’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week

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