One of our readers uses the sobriquet Democracy. In response to posts about Jeff Bezos’ decision to put the Washington Post in the hands of Will Lewis, a Murdoch-trained publisher and editor, Democracy writes:
When Eugene Meyer bought The Washington Post in 1933 he established a set of guiding principles for the newspaper and its employees.
The first was” to tell the truth as nearly as the truth can be ascertained.”
The other principles included:
* “The newspaper’s duty is to its readers and to the public at large, and not to the private interests of its owners.”
* “The Newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it.”
* “In the pursuit of truth, the newspaper shall be prepared to make sacrifices of its material fortunes, if such course be necessary for the public good.”
* “The newspaper shall not be the ally of any special interest, but shall be fair and free and wholesome in its outlook on public affairs.”
I think it’s fair to say that there has been some genuine “slippage” under Jeff Bezos.
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who would have ever imagined such a thing?
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Good old boys are by their nature elitists.
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The Washington Post – like almost all other major media outlets – violated this principle in reporting – i.e. NOT reporting on the cognitive condition of Joe Biden for the last four years:
“The Newspaper shall tell ALL the truth so far as it can learn it.”
But discarding basic ethics of journalism was for the greater good, so that’s OK with this blog. Whatever it takes, by any means necessary.
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Assuming you are correct, I will take Biden’s mental instability over Trump’s anytime. At least his advisers don’t want to kill women by stepping between them and their doctor.
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Amanda, you make an excellent point!
If the Washington Post wasn’t biased, they would have been running daily stories like this for the last 4 years:
“Elderly Joe Biden performs an economic miracle. How does this cognitively challenged president do it?”
“Experts debate why the elderly and cognitively challenged Joe Biden is having such a superb presidency. Do we need to elect more elderly politicians to save our country? Why aren’t younger presidents more successful?”
“We interview voters in a swing state diner discussing the reasons the elderly and cognitively challenged Biden is presiding over a White House that is so successful. Voters wonder why the elderly and cognitively challenged Trump’s presidency was such an utter failure, while cognitively challenged Biden is presiding over such a successful presidency. Perhaps it isn’t age at all, say the voters in the diner who Republicans need to listen to, we voters in a diner all agree that Biden is successful and Trump is a failure because putting a lying con man with a long history of corruption will always ruin this country, no matter how old or young the con man is.”
“Should more politicians take pills to make them LESS cognitively fit, so they can have the kind of successful presidency Biden has had?”
Amanda, you are right that if the Washington Post was not biased, they would have been news stories twice a day reporting on why the old and cognitively challenged Biden was such a better president than every younger president in 4 decades, and why the cognitively challenged Trump has been the worst president in history.
Imagine if the media had spent the last 4 years in search of the answer to why cognitively challenged Biden is such a good president?
I’d support that.
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Bailing on your news staff a year, six months, out from an election is disappointing, suspicious, but hiring Murdoch hacks to do so is damning, completely so. For a third time the electorate is being asked to save America from a tyrant and violent bigot dictatorship, and with little to no help from the major media or legal democratic safeguards, who appear now to be working for tyranny, mouthing tired, hollow, cliches about the threat of a radical left or socialism. Oh, America, if liberty and freedom move you, rise up and throw off this tyranny this November once and for all.
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”Oh, America, if liberty and freedom move you, rise up and throw off this tyranny this November once and for all.”
Indeed. I will take elections one at a time. But it must be done again and again, for tyranny ever returns, a shape-shifting monster seeking to steal sovereignty from the people.
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Hiring fake news champions to lead “The Washington Post” cheapens the paper’s credibility. Bezos claims, “Lewis is a professional journalist. ” We’ve heard those claims before about James Comey, Louis DeJoy and, of course, The Supreme Court.
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Jeff Bezos has only one principle: Take everything! His most significant role model is obviously Lex Luthor. Or would that be Specter?
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OMG. He IS Lex Luthor!!!!
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Dear spammer. I hope your package rots and falls off.
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I personally prefer this kind of spam over the spam from Russian/right wing trolls working their disinformation campaign to convince us that it is Biden – and not Trump – who is the cognitively unfit and dangerous candidate.
I think there is more truth in this spam than in the spam from Dem-haters who pretend are just people trying to help defeat Trump.
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Sorry for not catching the spammer sooner. I’ve figured out that the spammer is a male or female prostitute. I’m surprised they earn only $165 an hour.
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