Not getting the whole “journalism” thing

I just read what must be one of the worst articles I have seen in a while. Jonathan Weisman and Paul Kane of the Washington Post somehow managed to write a piece about the Democratic Congress’s less than stellar record of accomplishment in the just concluded session without once mentioning the word filibuster in reference to obstructionist Republican Senate minority. In fact, the only time it was used was to highlight the Democrat’s failure to build a filibuster-proof majority on Iraq. WTF? In this session, the Senate Republicans set a new record for number of filibusters. And somehow, these two manage to write an article completely devoid of that crucial piece of info. That isn’t just sloppy or lazy, that is journalistic malpractice. Maybe these two are hoping to land jobs writing editorial copy for Fox news or press releases for the RNC…