The Myth of the ‘Liberal’ Washington Post Opinion Pages

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By Jamison Foser

There may be no better example of the absurdity of the "liberal media" myth than the widespread notion that the Washington Post‘s opinion pages — and Fred Hiatt, the man who runs them — lean to the left.

The Daily Beast and Forbes magazine have bothnamed Hiatt one of America’s five most influential liberal journalists — though the Daily Beast acknowledged that many liberals would question that assessment given…