Washington Post Pockets Alito Flag Story

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The Washington Post, one of this nation's preeminent news publications, experienced it's glory days back in the early 1970's when it was owned and operated by a tigress named Katharine Graham, managed by a fearless editor, Ben Bradlee, and staffed with aggressive ace reporters like Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Those were the glory days of American journalism.  Today the landscape of newspaper  journalism is far different than it was fifty years ago when the team from The Washington Post conducted its unrelenting pursuit of the Watergate story and eventually drove Richard Nixon and his corrupt administration out of the White House.

Now the Post is owned by Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, and as the newspaper struggles to maintain profitability in a world of shrinking readership, subscriptions, and advertisers, a more judicious approach to the determination of what is and is not newsworthy seems to be prevailing.

Less than two weeks ago The New York Times, another of our venerable news publications, broke a story about an upside-down American flag flying in front of the home of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at the time of the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol in January of 2021.  The newspaper noted that same symbol had been been flown by rioters in the same manner (upside-down) during their attempted overthrow of the government.

Justice Alito quickly blamed the incident on his wife.  (A few days ago it was revealed that the Alito's have also been flying a Christian nationalist flag over their New Jersey beach home, but the elderly justice has yet to try and blame that one on the missus.)

The Alito flag stories are very shocking and add to the growing list of ethics concerns currently plaguing the Supreme Court.  Perhaps if they had been uncovered and reported earlier, changes in how the members of the Court behave and interact with the public could already be in effect, and the Court would at least have an appearance of being a neutral arbiter of justice.

But wait, the upside-down flag incident was known earlier - three years earlier - and it was known by The Washington Post who chose not to run it!   The Associated Press reported this morning that The Washington Post knew about the insurrectionist symbol flying in front of the home of a Justice of the US Supreme Court during a time of national crisis, and that newspaper chose not to bother the public with that information.

That's outrageous!  If America needs censored news, we might as well all be watching Foxi!

Hiding information is tantamount to lying!

Bezos, you suck!