The Washington Post's 1000-word retrospective on the Orlando nightclub shooting had time to bring up the issue of "gun violence," my colleague Becket Adams pointed out, but not the shooter's motivation or allegiance (he did it for the Islamic State, the shooter explained).

Omitting very relevant storylines that are not politically convenient is an odd habit of the paper whose tagline is now "democracy dies in darkness."

The Post in 2012 ran a 1,300-word piece on persecuted Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, without ever mentioning what his cause was: opposing the Communist nation's one-child policy. Abortion, sterilization, and "one-child" never appeared in the piece.

On April 16, 2010, beloved D.C. school principal Brian Betts was found murdered in his home. On April 22, police told reporters they suspected Betts' "gay lifestyle" was connected to his slaying. The Post refused to report that suspicion, even though police knew it could help them solve the murder, and it proved to be true. Instead, on May 2, the Post ran a story about the investigation, "Mystery defies relentless scrutiny in D.C. principal's slaying." The Post alluded to the lifestyle point, saying, "Betts had an active social life." Betts, it turned out, had met the killers on a gay sex chatline.

When the Post ran a piece praising Bob Dole for his criticism of Republicans, they failed to mention that he is a corporate lobbyist whose big-government designs were being thwarted by his old party.

When a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor and fundraiser for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Mikal Watts, was accused of fraud, the paper's 2013 story on the accusations never mentioned his political activity.

When John Podesta became counselor to the White House,* the Washington Post never mentioned that he had cofounded a lobbying firm that his brother (with whom he is very close) owns and runs.

Although the Post repeatedly cited Obama's executive order barring lobbyists from working on matters they lobbied on or affecting their former employer, the paper never mentioned that recent Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson was chief of staff at the Treasury Department, in clear violation of Obama's rules, until the paper included it in a passing mention after Patterson left.

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* Correction: Originally I wrote, wrongly, "chief of staff."

Timothy P. Carney, The Washington Examiner's commentary editor, can be contacted at tcarney@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears Tuesday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.