"Gulf of America Post" Love it. You nailed it Roger. I think the next step for Bezos is to demand that opinions are limited to the editorial pages, not mixed in with the "news" reports. I know its a tall order but hey, let's reach for the stars!
Always enjoy reading your articles. It is indeed good to see this entire leftist, communist, anti-American Democrat Party base unraveling. Every day it seems that more people wake (anti-woke) up and realize how they have been propagandized by the main-stream-media. So it is nice to see that another of their main players has gotten the message.
While Mr Bezos says, "I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America" I would suggest that they are right for the WORLD. And that is one of the things that America had always been about, until the great left-think restructuring post WWII, to which can be attributed our failure to secure China from the RED Communists, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, ad nauseam.
We almost fell. One more bad election . . . But thanks be to God America is coming back - and thanks be to so many people praying in Jesus' Name (Joshua, YHshua) as he had directed.
America (and the world) had been conned into believing there is no evil, no devil opposed to our Creator. Now I think the Truth is coming out. There is an evil force out to end Creation and only our Creator can combat it. We all need to be part of that force. Pray, praise, and give thanks in the great Name of Jesus, and work hard to keep this whole evil-Democrat force in their dark closet. The Republican Party has plenty of diversity, as imagined by our founders - positive diversity. We don't need the divisive evil that almost overwhelmed us. Blessings on your day.
The Democrats are truly suffering with a mind virus. Within hours of Bezos' announcement I saw many Democratic friends on Facebook state that they are canceling subscriptions, avoiding Amazon etc. Some claimed that they will stand up for Free Speech by boycotting Bezos. Yes, insistng that the editorial page not be devoted to destroying Trump and promoting leftism and socialism through censorship and propoganda is now worthy of boycott to people who I used to think were normal.
Eight years ago in 2017 I found myself disgusted at the online front page of the Washington Post on the day Trump was to be inaugurated. I'd been studying politics for more than half a century and was accustomed to each new president receiving a honeymoon period in the early days of their administration. But the Resistance was actively in full force, so I recorded all the headlines posted that day in what was once a respected newspaper:
POLL: TRUMP WILL TAKE OFFICE AS THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT IN AT LEAST FOUR DECADES
‘NEVER TRUMP’ NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS FEAR THEY ARE BLACKLISTED
DESPITE TRUMP’S FLASHY CREDENTIALS, THE INAUGURATION IS SHAPING UP TO BE A LOW-KEY AFFAIR
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO REPEAL OBAMACARE IS SO EXTRAORDINARY
MORE THAN FORTY DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS SAY THEY WILL BOYCOTT INAUGURATION TO PROTEST TRUMP
TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IS DOOMED
TRUMP’S TROUBLES HAVE JUST BEGUN, POST-ABC POLL SHOWS
A PARTING GIFT FROM OBAMA’S MOST TRUSTED: A DONALD TRUMP SURVIVAL GUIDE
MEDIA, DON’T PLAY TRUMP’S GAME OF DIVIDE AND CONQUER
TRUMP STARTS OFF IN AN INCREDIBLY WEAK POSITION. POLLS SUGGEST IT MIGHT GET WORSE
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT TRUMP’S ETHICS DISASTER COULDN’T GET WORSE, IT DID
The bias continues. Every action by Trump is reported as "Trump attacks..." "Trump threatens..." Trump demands...." It is more subtle and therefore sinister. Just watch Bloomberg for a taste of this baloney.
"...fewer Beltway readers soon." Love this line and would add fewer 5 Star restaurants. At Trumps inauguration the front row was filled with the Tech Titans, and that was done on purpose. The old guard of the likes of Murdoch Inc. and CNN are soon to be replaced and the brains of the bunch, Elon, Jeff, and Mark are the new memory hole owners. They have a seat at the table and the music stopped on 1-20-25, with no chairs left. The next few years could be the greatest Renaissance in journalism since the printing press. Rodger and Sheryl keep up the great work and your refugee status maybe expiring very soon because your ship has landed back on the shores of 'Freedom of the Press'. Make Journalism Great Again !!
The press has never been impartial. During the Civil War era newspapers took sides on all the issues, whether it was secession, slavery, state's rights and Lincoln, personally. The myth of a free and fair press has been shattered recently, but it never really existed. Human beings have prejudices and they are hard to get past.
My namesake Davy Crockett became the first American autobiographer in an attempt to counter the fake news of his day. He was running for his second term as a representative of Tennessee in Congress in the 1830's. It was an immediate best seller, yet failed to lead to victory. Within Davy's conciliation speech he famously said, "You all can go to hell. And I will go to Texas." Famous last words. The press matters.
I cancelled my WSJ subscription. Looks like the Liberal Murdoch's have basically won there with news coverage but they haven't overrun the opinion page. As you said, there will be a huge void if Fox goes liberal. Bezos could set up his own television network too.
For what it's worth, some of Trump's policies don't exhibit and accentuate "individual liberty and free markets". So, it's not as if WaPo is bending the knee to Trump either.
Life often seems to imitate art so on your AI note, put this film on your weekend watch list.
"COLLOSSUS: The Forbin Project (1970) Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the United State and allied weapons systems..." you can imagine the outcome.
It is a good movie that everyone needs to watch, and it is timelier than when it was made.
Roger the time is now for a modern re-make on this film.
Personally, I love watching the ongoing hypocrisy of it all. Trumps well deserved court victories against those left wing funded MSM outlets that tried to destroy him and his family. What's wrong with an 'eye for an eye' in light of what these evil low lives did and are still trying to do to him? Jeff, what do you think of naming the paper THE BROWN NOSE POST? I think it sings just like Gulf of America, don't you??
"I believe the WaPo’s vaunted Woodward and Bernstein are responsible for institutionalizing bias in journalism. . ."
I take a slightly more nuanced view of the Watergate reporting as a source of institutionalized bias in journalism. I would contend it is less the work of Woodward and Bernstein and more the actions of Mark Felt, the Assistant Director of the FBI who became immortalized by the alias "Deep Throat." Felt was anticipating that he would be named FBI Director upon Hoover's death.
He was personally aggrieved when L. Patrick Grey was named the new Director.
Felt's personal animus at Richard Nixon gave Woodward and Bernstein the material they needed to win enormous readership and a Pulitzer Prize (for their paper, not personally). Their work on the story was, in my estimation, only what is expected of enterprising journalists.
And that is an oft-repeated story in D.C. -- people feeling slighted by something, or that the story is not being fully reported, just call a reporter at the Post and leak their own side of the story. The FBI is high on the list of leaking institutions in D.C., or it was until now (we can hope).
Given the large Democrat bias in the population of D.C., and the left-leaning sympathies at the Washington Post, you are left with more left wing viewpoints being leaked and repeated.
I may write about this on my Substack, but here's something to consider. When Bezos bought WaPo it was believed that he was a free-market-oriented Conservative. But he plainly purchased it to give himself power to protect himself against government regulation. Maybe his views have changed not a whit, and he's finally just expressing them?
I wonder if Bezos has really become a free market Patriot suddenly, or if he simply sees the writing on the wall given the implosion of the Dem Party and its failure to recognize, let alone change its focus. We can only hope the Dems keep their focus on woke drivel as the GOP has a very strong bench to follow Trump; the Dems literally have no one! Bezos cannot take the chance that the Dems will make the change, he is making a calculated bet the tide will continue to move in favor of the GOP.
Who dares wins. Jeff Bezos has acted boldly and the bleaters flee. The Post spent weeks splashing Abu Ghraib on its front page, having spent years drumming Nixon out for a Helms-CIA coup. Now comes a cataclysmic shift in DC editorial policy, from pure strident propaganda to free speech and free markets. There is a tide in the affairs of men--which will surge the giants to fortune while drowning the rats.
Yep biased news all the way back to the town criers.
Back in the sixties though many contended one could find the least biased news in three papers; the Manchester Weekly, the Christian Science Monitor and I believe the third one was the Wall Street Journal.
Also back then the bias wasn't all the same way; your local Herald leaned left but the Times right, or vice versa so you could pick, choose or read both to get a clearer picture.
"Gulf of America Post" Love it. You nailed it Roger. I think the next step for Bezos is to demand that opinions are limited to the editorial pages, not mixed in with the "news" reports. I know its a tall order but hey, let's reach for the stars!
Good morning Mr. Simon,
Always enjoy reading your articles. It is indeed good to see this entire leftist, communist, anti-American Democrat Party base unraveling. Every day it seems that more people wake (anti-woke) up and realize how they have been propagandized by the main-stream-media. So it is nice to see that another of their main players has gotten the message.
While Mr Bezos says, "I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America" I would suggest that they are right for the WORLD. And that is one of the things that America had always been about, until the great left-think restructuring post WWII, to which can be attributed our failure to secure China from the RED Communists, North Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, ad nauseam.
We almost fell. One more bad election . . . But thanks be to God America is coming back - and thanks be to so many people praying in Jesus' Name (Joshua, YHshua) as he had directed.
America (and the world) had been conned into believing there is no evil, no devil opposed to our Creator. Now I think the Truth is coming out. There is an evil force out to end Creation and only our Creator can combat it. We all need to be part of that force. Pray, praise, and give thanks in the great Name of Jesus, and work hard to keep this whole evil-Democrat force in their dark closet. The Republican Party has plenty of diversity, as imagined by our founders - positive diversity. We don't need the divisive evil that almost overwhelmed us. Blessings on your day.
The Democrats are truly suffering with a mind virus. Within hours of Bezos' announcement I saw many Democratic friends on Facebook state that they are canceling subscriptions, avoiding Amazon etc. Some claimed that they will stand up for Free Speech by boycotting Bezos. Yes, insistng that the editorial page not be devoted to destroying Trump and promoting leftism and socialism through censorship and propoganda is now worthy of boycott to people who I used to think were normal.
Eight years ago in 2017 I found myself disgusted at the online front page of the Washington Post on the day Trump was to be inaugurated. I'd been studying politics for more than half a century and was accustomed to each new president receiving a honeymoon period in the early days of their administration. But the Resistance was actively in full force, so I recorded all the headlines posted that day in what was once a respected newspaper:
POLL: TRUMP WILL TAKE OFFICE AS THE LEAST POPULAR PRESIDENT IN AT LEAST FOUR DECADES
‘NEVER TRUMP’ NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS FEAR THEY ARE BLACKLISTED
DESPITE TRUMP’S FLASHY CREDENTIALS, THE INAUGURATION IS SHAPING UP TO BE A LOW-KEY AFFAIR
WHY THE REPUBLICAN PLAN TO REPEAL OBAMACARE IS SO EXTRAORDINARY
MORE THAN FORTY DEMOCRATIC LAWMAKERS SAY THEY WILL BOYCOTT INAUGURATION TO PROTEST TRUMP
TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY IS DOOMED
TRUMP’S TROUBLES HAVE JUST BEGUN, POST-ABC POLL SHOWS
A PARTING GIFT FROM OBAMA’S MOST TRUSTED: A DONALD TRUMP SURVIVAL GUIDE
MEDIA, DON’T PLAY TRUMP’S GAME OF DIVIDE AND CONQUER
TRUMP STARTS OFF IN AN INCREDIBLY WEAK POSITION. POLLS SUGGEST IT MIGHT GET WORSE
JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT TRUMP’S ETHICS DISASTER COULDN’T GET WORSE, IT DID
Times have changed for the better.
The bias continues. Every action by Trump is reported as "Trump attacks..." "Trump threatens..." Trump demands...." It is more subtle and therefore sinister. Just watch Bloomberg for a taste of this baloney.
"...fewer Beltway readers soon." Love this line and would add fewer 5 Star restaurants. At Trumps inauguration the front row was filled with the Tech Titans, and that was done on purpose. The old guard of the likes of Murdoch Inc. and CNN are soon to be replaced and the brains of the bunch, Elon, Jeff, and Mark are the new memory hole owners. They have a seat at the table and the music stopped on 1-20-25, with no chairs left. The next few years could be the greatest Renaissance in journalism since the printing press. Rodger and Sheryl keep up the great work and your refugee status maybe expiring very soon because your ship has landed back on the shores of 'Freedom of the Press'. Make Journalism Great Again !!
The press has never been impartial. During the Civil War era newspapers took sides on all the issues, whether it was secession, slavery, state's rights and Lincoln, personally. The myth of a free and fair press has been shattered recently, but it never really existed. Human beings have prejudices and they are hard to get past.
My namesake Davy Crockett became the first American autobiographer in an attempt to counter the fake news of his day. He was running for his second term as a representative of Tennessee in Congress in the 1830's. It was an immediate best seller, yet failed to lead to victory. Within Davy's conciliation speech he famously said, "You all can go to hell. And I will go to Texas." Famous last words. The press matters.
I cancelled my WSJ subscription. Looks like the Liberal Murdoch's have basically won there with news coverage but they haven't overrun the opinion page. As you said, there will be a huge void if Fox goes liberal. Bezos could set up his own television network too.
For what it's worth, some of Trump's policies don't exhibit and accentuate "individual liberty and free markets". So, it's not as if WaPo is bending the knee to Trump either.
Life often seems to imitate art so on your AI note, put this film on your weekend watch list.
"COLLOSSUS: The Forbin Project (1970) Eric Braeden stars as Dr. Charles Forbin, who has created a supercomputer named Colossus, built solely for the purpose of controlling the nuclear defenses of the United State and allied weapons systems..." you can imagine the outcome.
It is a good movie that everyone needs to watch, and it is timelier than when it was made.
Roger the time is now for a modern re-make on this film.
Personally, I love watching the ongoing hypocrisy of it all. Trumps well deserved court victories against those left wing funded MSM outlets that tried to destroy him and his family. What's wrong with an 'eye for an eye' in light of what these evil low lives did and are still trying to do to him? Jeff, what do you think of naming the paper THE BROWN NOSE POST? I think it sings just like Gulf of America, don't you??
"I believe the WaPo’s vaunted Woodward and Bernstein are responsible for institutionalizing bias in journalism. . ."
I take a slightly more nuanced view of the Watergate reporting as a source of institutionalized bias in journalism. I would contend it is less the work of Woodward and Bernstein and more the actions of Mark Felt, the Assistant Director of the FBI who became immortalized by the alias "Deep Throat." Felt was anticipating that he would be named FBI Director upon Hoover's death.
He was personally aggrieved when L. Patrick Grey was named the new Director.
Felt's personal animus at Richard Nixon gave Woodward and Bernstein the material they needed to win enormous readership and a Pulitzer Prize (for their paper, not personally). Their work on the story was, in my estimation, only what is expected of enterprising journalists.
And that is an oft-repeated story in D.C. -- people feeling slighted by something, or that the story is not being fully reported, just call a reporter at the Post and leak their own side of the story. The FBI is high on the list of leaking institutions in D.C., or it was until now (we can hope).
Given the large Democrat bias in the population of D.C., and the left-leaning sympathies at the Washington Post, you are left with more left wing viewpoints being leaked and repeated.
LMAO
institutionalized bias is the police state
I may write about this on my Substack, but here's something to consider. When Bezos bought WaPo it was believed that he was a free-market-oriented Conservative. But he plainly purchased it to give himself power to protect himself against government regulation. Maybe his views have changed not a whit, and he's finally just expressing them?
probably not
it was born a thieving man
I wonder if Bezos has really become a free market Patriot suddenly, or if he simply sees the writing on the wall given the implosion of the Dem Party and its failure to recognize, let alone change its focus. We can only hope the Dems keep their focus on woke drivel as the GOP has a very strong bench to follow Trump; the Dems literally have no one! Bezos cannot take the chance that the Dems will make the change, he is making a calculated bet the tide will continue to move in favor of the GOP.
36 Trillion in debt, 1.2 Trillion a year in interest payments and the WP claims Trump is a Nazi. Pelosi, Shummer, Hoyer,
McConnell, McCain, Fouchi all get a pass.
All the NGO thefts and not a peep. The DC freinds and family plan in full bloom and it stinks.It really stinks. The Bastards stole our kids futures.
typo "incthanks", Just FYI.
Who dares wins. Jeff Bezos has acted boldly and the bleaters flee. The Post spent weeks splashing Abu Ghraib on its front page, having spent years drumming Nixon out for a Helms-CIA coup. Now comes a cataclysmic shift in DC editorial policy, from pure strident propaganda to free speech and free markets. There is a tide in the affairs of men--which will surge the giants to fortune while drowning the rats.
Yep biased news all the way back to the town criers.
Back in the sixties though many contended one could find the least biased news in three papers; the Manchester Weekly, the Christian Science Monitor and I believe the third one was the Wall Street Journal.
Also back then the bias wasn't all the same way; your local Herald leaned left but the Times right, or vice versa so you could pick, choose or read both to get a clearer picture.