Last week was a rough one for the media. Newsweek apologized and retracted its problematically sourced story on Quran desecration, but the right wing and the White House still wanted more. Bill Moyers spoke out about who is controlling the public's airwaves while the Corporation for Public Broadcasting went even further to correct perceived bias at NPR and PBS -- with a GOP partisan in charge. Salon was there covering it all, making sure that the story got out and views from all sides were aired.
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On top of our terrific media reporting, this week saw the culmination of great investigative work by reporter Mark Benjamin, who discovered and reported in January that some soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital were forced to pay for their meals. After Benjamin's article, Sen. Barack Obama took notice and made sure that soldiers no longer have to pay for their meals when in the hospital.
Salon has also been all over the biggest political news story since the election, the battle over the so-called nuclear option. Our most popular piece by far was Tim Grieve's amazing primer on the nuclear option, in which he broke down the entire issue clearly and succinctly. Then we sent him to Washington to cover events as they unfold, heading toward potential political armageddon on Tuesday (check out this great exchange with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's press secretary). To read all our coverage of the nuclear option, just go to this page.
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