Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed John D. O’Connor.
The Washinton Post is clearly failing, as its owner Jeff Bezos, beset by $100 million in annual losses, has laid off one third of its payroll and 40% of its journalists. But why?
The Post had vaulted to prominence when through its secret source Deep Throat, “broke” the Watergate scandal.
The Post had committed fraud by concealment in that scandal, but no one knew. Had it thereafter told the truth without fear or favor, as the world thought it had done in Watergate, it would be controlling the media today. It had rid our system of a conservative President-Nixon by lying-and sold a progressive-Obama, dishonestly. But the world was catching on, as the internet and talk radio pierced the media monopoly. The Post put all its chips on the anti-Trump line, and did so dishonestly. But unlike Watergate and the Iraq War, the public was not fooled. The Post has held itself out as a truth teller, but had told the public a most important lie, one about who it is. The Post has not been a truth teller, and the public saw to it that it failed.
