To those in the D.C. area, please chime in re: Washington Post's biased coverage...

of the health care reform debate.

Not only is the Washington Post Express allowing mistruths and disinformation to seap into the consciousness of the reader, the Washington Post itself is printing absolute nonsense and giving the right-wing a platform to air it.

This morning's lead story was Arlen Specter's town hall rather than the president's address.

Am I going crazy, or is the Post acting as it did during the run-up to the illegal Iraqi invasion?

88% of Post Express readers believe that the 'mob' is rightfully expressing their disdain for health care reform and that the small minority of disgruntled racists is a reflection of American public opinion on the issue as a whole.

What's going on here?

:kick:

consider them irrelevant.

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that serves the fascist agenda.

WaPost was a key cheerleader for Swiftliars, treating the story like a he said/he said and assuring the lies had EQUAL FOOTING with the truth of the actual record.

probably as revenue declines, they become more open to influence peddling by industry groups. Thus their little planned cocktail parties for interest groups to have them pay for access and favorable coverage.

This is the reason newspapers are dying. That and people's general illiteracy.

And...Mr blm worked for KnightRidder (now McClatchy) for a number of years and I heard plenty of inside newsbiz scoops including the tidbit that WaPost is called Spook Central by many of the older newsies.

I have posted that a number of times over the years, so it shouldn't be new to you.


From recent thread on Gary Webb:

""Walter Pincus also led the attack on Gary Webb when he published his series of articles on CIA involvement with the Contras and the drug industry. After Dark Alliance was published Pincus wrote: "A Washington Post investigation into Ross, Blandon, Meneses, and the U.S. cocaine market in the 1980s found the available information does not support the conclusion that the CIA-backed contras - or Nicaraguans in general - played a major role in the emergence of crack as a narcotic in widespread use across the United States."

The Washington Post refused to publish Webb's letters when he attempted to defend his views on the CIA. This included information that Pincus had been recruited by the CIA when he was at Yale University in order to spy on student groups at several international youth conferences in the 1950s. Later, Geneva Overholser, the Washington Post ombudsman, criticized Pincus and other reporters working for the newspaper: "A principal responsibility of the press is to protect the people from government excesses. The Washington Post (among others) showed more energy for protecting the CIA from someone else's journalistic excesses."

When Gary Webb committed suicide, French journalist, Paul Moreira, made a television documentary for France's Canal Plus. He interviewed Pincus and asked him why in October, 1998, he had not reported on the CIA's inspector general report admitting the agency worked with drug dealers throughout the 1980s. Pincus was unable to explain why he and other mainstream journalists completely ignored this report that helped to support Webb's case against the CIA. ""

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MDpincus.htm



There has been nothing 'sudden' about their right turn....most people just always bought the storyline fed them about papers like WaPost and NYT.