The Ink-Wire’s headline-writing copy editor Gets It:

Religious Bias Gets OK in State Job Ads

A Christian college in Western Pennsylvania and a faith-based coalition can use a state-sponsored job site specifically to hire Christians, according to the settlement of a religious discrimination suit.
Attorneys for Geneva College in Beaver Falls and the Association of Faith-Based Organizations, a coalition in Springfield, Va., filed the federal suit over Pennsylvania’s online CareerLink job-listing site in December. The state and federal governments were named as defendants.

The plaintiffs argued they were wrongly denied use of the employment service, which includes an Internet service called CareerLink. The service has a nondiscrimination policy barring job postings that require applicants to have particular religious backgrounds.

Just change every instance of the word “religious” or “faith” to “race”, all instances of “Christian” or “Christianity” to “white,” and “belief” to “color.”.  Read more 

One more and I’m out. Really. His Lordship the Grey One asks:

I’m not really quite sure who qualifies as “people who run campaigns,” but over the past few years I’ve had several people tell me that it’s part of the accepted rulebook that low level congressional and campaign staffers aren’t subject to the same kind of scrutiny - either by journalists or political operatives - that high level people and actual politicians are. There is a recognition, or was, that barring egregious criminal conduct or similar young people in relatively unimportant positions aren’t really “newsmakers” and therefore can’t really make news. Obviously blogging and the internet generally has made a mess of what were traditionally understood public and private spaces, but I’m still not sure why anyone working on a campaign is subject to the type of scrutiny which they were previously largely immune from.

Oh yes you do.  Read more 

I was just saying, and stories like this only prove my point further. Wake up, Dems. Make media reform a priority, or forever fight an uphill battle with no armor or weapons.

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Atrios doesn’t need the traffic, but the MM pieceis so obvious & easy, it could’ve been done one-handed.

(you may groan now)

Anyhoo- How many Americans still think the media is left-biased?  Read more