The Washington Post substitutes government propagandizing for journalism

© 2016 Peter Free

 

20 September 2016

 

 

Don't that beat all

 

The Washington Post, which published — and benefited from publishing — a host of Edward Snowden's leaked US government secret material, recently announced that he should be prosecuted.

 

Apparently the newspaper takes the position that its sources should be hammered, when Uncle Sam says so.

 

And — in some mysterious fashion — calling for an information source's prosecution evidently absolves the Post of any and all responsibility for having published the leaked material in the first place.

 

A hypocrite's logic.

 

 

The future

 

How the Post's anti-journalistic stance is going to play out for the newspaper, in terms of information gathering over the long term, seems predictable.

 

If I knew something worth knowing, under ambiguous legal circumstances, I certainly would not tell the Washington Post.

 

Who wants to benefit a two-faced hypocrite and afterward take a knife in the back?

 

 

The moral? — What a cowardly rag

 

Former owner Katherine Graham's ghost will certainly be puking on current owner Jeff Bezos' inferably slimy feet.

 

I admit to previously having been irritated by the Post's non-stop propagandized warmongering. But this last has persuaded me not to renew my subscription.

 

The newspaper seems to have become a devil-horned vessel of hypocritically sanctimonious, yellow-bellied, autocracy-embracing militarists — who have not a clue about premier American journalism's duty to investigate.