All I can say is: What a bunch of babies. I mean, especially speaking as a conservative media-watcher, I just have to laugh at the thin skin of the left-wing imbeciles who loaded up the comments section of the WashingtonPost.com blog with obscenities and insults after they objected to one sentence in ombudsman Deborah Howell’s column. Are you kidding? Conservatives are subjected to entirely biased areas of coverage (fine, whatever, I just object to its presentation as “objective”), and the same inaccuracies repeated over and over, etc. Watching these lefties — whose politics have colored the media for decades — get so worked up over one sentence in the Washington Post brings to mind Matthew Broderick’s conniption fit when Nathan Lane snatches his blankie in The Producers — so entitled they feel to the pages of the Post.

As usual, Jay Rosen gets right to the heart of the matter and talks to the key player, Post.com editor Jim Brady. The whole thing made a little more sense to me after reading his post — but not much.

UPDATE: After a day or two of thinking about this, I started to wonder if maybe this episode can help conservatives keep things in perspective the next time we challenge the media on certain issues. Honestly, it’s impossible to watch liberals making fools of themselves over this (e.g. accusing WashingtonPost.com of censorship just because its editors refuse to host a comments thread filled with obscene language and ad hominem attacks) and not wonder whether we come across the same way when we’re criticizing tendentious reporting or bogus editorializing. This will be a useful episode to revisit the next time we’re about to fly off the handle over some perceived media slight — a good example of how not to make an argument.