The Conflict of Intere$t Corrupting the Washington Post

[procopia]

"Absent the huge increase in revenue from its Kaplan, Inc. educational materials subsidiary, the Washington Post Company would have been a money-losing organization, the kind of corporation where executives conduct layoffs prior to being fired themselves. The explosive growth at Kaplan was due to the largesse of George W. Bush, the politician whom the company’s flagship newspaper treats with tender loving care. It is the Bush program mandating the testing of schoolchildren across America – tests for which Kaplan supplies materials - that makes the federal government a lucrative source of revenue for the Post’s cash cow."

by David Podvin
http://makethemaccountable.com/podvin/media/031102_ConflictOfInterest.htm

[SharonAnn]

1. Thanks, great article and it explains a lot

Guess we can look forward to more of the same old, same old with the 2004 campaign.

[annxburns]

3. That whore Howie Kurtz has a live online discussion ...

... every Monday through the online Washington Post. Someone should hit him with this question.

[pasadenaboy]

2. thanks for posting that.

Great article. (and a thread that doesn't bash a dem candidate to boot)