Washington Post GOPropaganda

Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

I have posted previously about the Washington Post's unholy partnership with the Pete Peterson Group, a conservative think tank dedicated to ending social security and Medicare. Pete Peterson's war on social security – and his media enablers. Is it any wonder that the Post has been an advocate for Rep. Paul Ryan's Roadmap to America's Ruin?

The Washington Post's lack of journalisitc integrity is a serious problem here in Arizona, because both The Arizona Republic and the Arizona Daily Star subcribe to the Post's news service for much of the news content you see reported on the pages of these newspapers. The Star also heavily favors the conservative syndicated columnists from the Post. (Will, Krauthammer, Parker, etc.)

The Center for Economic and Policy Research reports: The Post Bombards Readers With Misinformation About Jobs and the Economy:

The Post once again showed why it is known as "Fox on 15th Street," running an editorial with the subhead, "tackling the specter of structural unemployment," which essentially offers nothing to address the problem.

CEPR launches into a sarcastic point-by-point take-down of the foolishness in this editorial masquerading as economic analysis, then plaintively asks "Can someone get these people an intro econ textbook?"

Finally, the Post concludes by urging patience:

"The costs, human and economic, of high unemployment are heartbreaking. But it will take a measure of patience as well as a sense of urgency to prevent it from becoming a permanent feature of the U.S. economic landscape."

Yes, all the buffoons running economic policy who could not see the largest asset bubble in the history of the world are still there running economic policy. All the Wall Street clowns who made a fortune pushing junk mortgages and packaging them into complex financial instruments are still rich. That's just the way it is. The rest of us just need to be patient.

At one time the Arizona Daily Star subscribed to the New York Times news service and favored Times' syndicated columnists. The quality of Times reporting is far superior to that of the Washington Post, which is only a pale shadow of its former greatness when Katherine Graham and Benjamin Bradlee ran the newspaper. I would be willing to pay a little more to get New York Times reporting and columnists in the Arizona Daily Star.