Peter1469
05-24-2017, 04:42 AM
Who owns the Washington Post? (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-20/cia-washington-post-and-russia-what-youre-not-being-told)
Yesterday I looked at the online WAPO opinion page. It was almost exclusively anti-Trump. With wild titles that seem like those on Drudge. So I looked around.
It seems as if Jeff Bezos got a $600M contract with the CIA - and then bought the Washington Post for around $300M.
According (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_russiahack-745p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.dbe68acabe86) to an unsubstantiated article by the Washington Post, anonymous CIA officials have confirmed that the Russian government hacked the United States election to favor Donald Trump. Though it’s entirely possible the Russian government attempted to influence the election, the Post has been widely criticized (https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/) — for the second time (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-disgusting-w452543) in a month — for its failure to follow basic journalistic practices. Nevertheless, the narrative is sticking.
But the outlet’s behind-the-scenes relationship with the CIA is nothing new. In 2013, a conflict of interest arose shortly after Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, purchased the newspaper. As the Nation reported (https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-washington-post-and-600-million-cia-contract/) at the time:
“[Jeff Bezos] recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed (http://www.cruxialcio.com/ibm-concedes-600m-cia-cloud-deal-amazon-2509) that the company’s Web-services business is building a ‘private cloud’ for the CIA to use for its data needs.”
As this occurred, a petition (http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8979) calling on the Washington Post to disclose its new ties to the CIA when reporting on the agency garnered 30,000 signatures. According to the RootsforAction petition:
Read the rest at the link.
Yesterday I looked at the online WAPO opinion page. It was almost exclusively anti-Trump. With wild titles that seem like those on Drudge. So I looked around.
It seems as if Jeff Bezos got a $600M contract with the CIA - and then bought the Washington Post for around $300M.
According (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_russiahack-745p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.dbe68acabe86) to an unsubstantiated article by the Washington Post, anonymous CIA officials have confirmed that the Russian government hacked the United States election to favor Donald Trump. Though it’s entirely possible the Russian government attempted to influence the election, the Post has been widely criticized (https://theintercept.com/2016/12/10/anonymous-leaks-to-the-washpost-about-the-cias-russia-beliefs-are-no-substitute-for-evidence/) — for the second time (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/washington-post-blacklist-story-is-shameful-disgusting-w452543) in a month — for its failure to follow basic journalistic practices. Nevertheless, the narrative is sticking.
But the outlet’s behind-the-scenes relationship with the CIA is nothing new. In 2013, a conflict of interest arose shortly after Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, purchased the newspaper. As the Nation reported (https://www.thenation.com/article/amazon-washington-post-and-600-million-cia-contract/) at the time:
“[Jeff Bezos] recently secured a $600 million contract from the CIA. That’s at least twice what Bezos paid for the Post this year. Bezos recently disclosed (http://www.cruxialcio.com/ibm-concedes-600m-cia-cloud-deal-amazon-2509) that the company’s Web-services business is building a ‘private cloud’ for the CIA to use for its data needs.”
As this occurred, a petition (http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=8979) calling on the Washington Post to disclose its new ties to the CIA when reporting on the agency garnered 30,000 signatures. According to the RootsforAction petition:
Read the rest at the link.