Post: We Don't Have a Bias

From today’s Washington Post chat with Larry Roberts, deputy assistant managing editor for investigations:

Question: A political investigation will help either the rightwing or the leftwing. At The Post, rightwing investigations–Whitewater, Vince Foster, Swift Boats, Dan Rather, etc., seen to get much more coverage than leftwing investigations–WMD, Downing Street Memo, senior level administration involvement in abuses at Guantanamo Abu grabe, and Rovegate…. How does the political slant of an investigation determine how much energy is invested? Is their an institutional presumption of administration credibility, while dismissing investigations of the administration as wild eyed “conspiracy” theories.

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