WaPo Builds ‘Panic’ on Hearing on Radical Islam: ‘Some Compare Hearings to McCarthyism’
The dominant front-page story in Monday's Washington Post is headlined “Hearings on Muslims trigger panic: Some fear that a coming House inquiry into alleged hidden radicalism will inflame prejudice.” The headline on the inside page is 'Some compare hearings to McCarthyism.” William Wan's story added in the third paragraph, smack dab on the front page: “Angry op-eds have compared the congressional inquiry to McCarthyism and the World War II persecution of Japanese Americans .” Can anyone recall the Post leading a “panic” against a hearing a Democrat had yet to begin? The target of all this “panic” is Rep. Peter King, a moderate Republican from Long Island. Nowhere in this story were mentions of Fort Hood or the Christmas Day bomber, which might define “hidden radicalism.” Wan focused his story on a Long Island mosque where King used to appear, and how those local Muslims feel betrayed by King after 9/11.
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on January 24, 2011. Filed under