The Washington Post

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File:The Washington Post proponot 2016.png The 2016 story which promoted Propornot's list of "Russian Propaganda" sites.
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Formation	1877
Founder	Stilson Hutchins
Headquarters	1150 15th Street, Washington DC, United States
Type	Daily newspaper
Guardian of the official narrative.

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There are no more important pages than its editorial section, where its board comes together to lay out the collective wisdom of its most senior journalists and editors. Through its editorial page, the senior staff lay out the newspaper’s line to others and broadcast what they see as the correct position on the most pressing issues of the day. Hence, editorials are essentially instructions to their well-heeled and influential readers in D.C. and around the country on what to think about any given subject.” |Is about=The Washington Post,|+sep=, |Has wikipediaPage= |Has location=|+sep=, |Has publicationDate=June 18th, 2021 |Sourced from= |Has sourceDetails= |Has sourceTitle= |Has sourceName= |Has sourceURL=https://www.mintpressnews.com/jeff-bezos-at-helm-democracy-dies-at-washington-post-editorial-board/277738/

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“The Washington Post is among the most powerful, influential, and widely-read media outlets in the United States. Its position as the dominant newspaper in the nation’s capital reinforces its place as a thought-leading, agenda-setting publication. Whatever appears in the Post will likely be in the rest of the nation’s media, so authoritative is its reputation.
There are no more important pages than its editorial section, where its board comes together to lay out the collective wisdom of its most senior journalists and editors. Through its editorial page, the senior staff lay out the newspaper’s line to others and broadcast what they see as the correct position on the most pressing issues of the day. Hence, editorials are essentially instructions to their well-heeled and influential readers in D.C. and around the country on what to think about any given subject.”
Alan Macleod (June 18th, 2021) 

Official Narrative

Together with the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, the Washington Post has a long established position as a guardian of the official narrative.

Deep state control

The Washington Post's choice of what to report and how illustrate their subservience to the US Deep state. When Bertha Champagne, a long time nanny for the Bush family, was killed in circumstances that are still unclear, it took the Washington Post almost a week to report the story.

Watergate coup

Full article: Watergate coup

The US Deep state chose two Washington Post journalists (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein) to carry out the corporate media side of the Watergate coup.

War Propaganda

The Washington Post carried an editorial by Stephen Hadley with the headline, “To stop Iran, Obama must enforce red lines with Assad.” Nowhere did it disclose that Hadley is a director with Raytheon, a weapons manufacturer that produces the Tomahawk cruise missiles the US almost certainly would have used had it intervened in Syria. Hadley earns an annual salary of $128,5000 from Raytheon and owns 11,477 shares of Raytheon stock. His holdings were worth $891,189 as of August 23."

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen wrote in 2009 that "These Persians lie like a rug."

PropOrNot

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"Your Friendly Neighborhood Propaganda Identification Service"

In November 2016, the Washington Post carried an article by one 'Craig Timberg', highlighted the assertions of PropOrNot that 200 websites (including this website) were outlets of "Russian Propaganda".

VIPaeodphile

Also in November 2016, the Washington Post reported on a Norwegian VIPaedophile case, but withdrew their report in 2017.

Elections

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On 19 February 2020 an op-ed by Julia Azari was headlined It’s time to give the elites a bigger say in choosing the president, which had been retitled by the next day It’s time to switch to preference primaries.

Policy

"On May 1, 2017, the Washington Post introduced a policy prohibiting its employees from criticizing its advertisers and business partners, and encouraging them to snitch on one another."

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