Sunday, April 25, 2010

It's the Washington Post method of reporting -- who buys the ads?

Have a feeling Kaplan & Co. doesn't really give a shit about actual humans? Well, wonder no more:

Obama will speak at a memorial for 29 miners killed April 5 in an underground explosion. The trip brings him to the heart of a state whose voters rejected him twice in 2008. Even some Democratic politicians worry that his environmental policies are hurting a struggling region.


Yes, God forbid that the death of 29 people through gung-ho environment and safety be damned, deter us from questioning whether Obama's the real problem.

I'm trying to determine the difference between this and what a Pravda article on the latest 5-year plan would be like?

10 comments:

StonyPillow said...

My monthly click on a Washington Post article. Waste of perfectly good photons.

Who the hell still reads the Washington Post, anyway? Most Republicans are too stupid to read, and those who can won't read newspapers because they don't need facts, anywway.

Fred Hiatt, Real Man of Genius.

Harry R. Sohl said...

"some Democratic politicians"?

Name one.

sukabi said...

but Atta, you should know that in WaPo world the only humans that matter are the ones raking in $1million or more / year... the rest of us are just filler.

DrDick said...

Pravda would be more honest.

Montag said...

Beat me to it, Dr.

And, if no more honest, at least it would have written in such a way that the ordinary reader could tell they were being deceitful. At least the reader knew it was the rank propaganda it was expected to be.

The WaPoo is far better at subtle insinuation and unattributed sources than Pravda ever hoped to be....

pansypoo said...

of corporations, by corporations, for corporations.

JDM said...

Breaking: WAPO changing name (officially) to "Der KKKorpratische Tainten Lapper"

Anonymous said...

the wapost is a poor excuse for freedom of speech in this land of the free and home of the shadows who hide behind their large corporate sponsers.

Chairman Mo said...

as long as some wretches are willing to go in an chisel out some coal for the factories to belch smoke into the atmosphere everyone wins, (except for the wretches)

George Bullen said...

When are people going to realize that newspapers, in an era where their influence is almost dead, have basically reverted back to the yellow journalism of the Hearst era? Big papers are so desperate for revenue now they will make any issue and event into some big political drama. Nothing can ever just be as it is. At least some people out there point them out on their BS.

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