Pete Tucker keeps track of the Washington Post’s negative coverage of Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous, who is running against Republican Governor Larry Hogan. See here for his earlier story on this matter.
The Post slants its headlines, as you will see, to put Jealous in a bad light and to insulate Hogan from Association with Trump.
Jealous, a former leader of the NAACP, is a genuine progressive. The Post doesn’t like that.
After the recent primaries, the Post hailed Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, the neoliberal who curtailed public sector pensions, as a real Reformer. Does the Post have a vested interest in the status quo?
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“Does the Post have a vested interest in the status quo?”
Um, who owns it? I think that answers your question.
an astute look at REALITY.
And we have (Rep)Gov Hogan now using the education “apple” logo in his campaign. The state Teacher’s Union has endorsed Jealous and they should since Hogan referred to union leaders as “thugs” (although he made the thugs reference toward teachers….and then retracted his statement to hurl the insult toward the union reps) . I believe there will be a court hearing on this today. Funny that all these politicians who want to be reelected are using social causes that they have tried to decimate, to bolster their voter base in the upcoming elections? I don’t understand it?
A Russian oligarch is one of the new owners of the company that provides Marylands voting machines, according to a story on NPR yesterday.
YEP! And MD is bidding for another Amazon facility, too.
Thanks, Ponderosa.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/maryland-elections-russia/index.html
This is an emergency. Let’s go back to paper ballots now. Who cares if it takes a month to count them all?
If The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss hasn’t written about Ben Jealous vs Governor Larry Hogan, let’s hope she does.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/valerie-strauss/?utm_term=.d7ae7cf14ca2
WaPo has an online feedback form which can be used to rebuke them for their biased reporting.
From what I’ve read about the paper’s new owner and how he manages the paper “Who owns the paper” isn’t a factor. Instead, look at the editors that run the paper, because they have said that the owner does not micromanage them and the owner lets them manage the paper the way they see fit.
“Since Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013, the newspaper has been one of the great—and few—success stories in media, legacy or otherwise. The size of the paper’s staff has grown to over 800, and it has opened bureaus around the globe, most recently in Hong Kong and Rome. In 2015 it beat its arch-rival The New York Times in terms of readership (though the Times has since regained the upper hand), and it has been profitable for two years. No one, in 2018, seems to really know how to run a lucrative, well-read, daily publication, but The Post suggests that one way is to be owned by the richest man in the world.” …
“Led by editor Marty Baron and economically secure, the Post has been a beacon for journalists as well as readers.”
Where does it say that “Bezos” is leading the paper?
https://newrepublic.com/article/149404/side-jeff-bezoss-washington-post
If you read the New Republic piece, it is obvious there are problems but nowhere does it say that Bezos is “leading the paper. Marty Baron is leading it. Look at Marty Baron.