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WashPost Readers Outraged That the Post Had 'Not One Line in the Paper'
NewsBusters.org ^ | December 14, 2013 | Tim Graham

Posted on 12/14/2013 5:31:32 PM PST by Kaslin

On the “Free For All” page in Saturday’s Washington Post devoted to letters to the editor, three locals smacked the Post for failing to note the 72nd anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7.

None of the letters as printed made the point that the Post has “flooded the zone” with lots of coverage and special sections this year for the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington and then the JFK assassination. So what about the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor in 2011? What did that draw?

No zone-flooding. No special sections. No articles in the A-section of the paper on December 7, 2011 or the week leading up to it. On the 7th, they had a story on the front page of the Metro section by reporter Tom Jackman on two Japanese-American veterans of World War II now living in the same retirement community in Springifield, Virginia.

The day that “will live in infamy” isn’t apparently infamous enough to last in the Post. Here are the angry letters as printed on Saturday:

I was shocked and dismayed to find no mention in the Dec. 7 Post of “a day that will live in infamy.” The anniversary of Pearl Harbor is one of the most important days in the history of our country. And we wonder why young people often appear ignorant of what has happened in the past?

I hope this day will not be ignored again by The Post.  -- Anne Mahoney Robbins, Rockville

Did anyone at The Post happen to notice on the calendar that Dec. 7 is Pearl Harbor Day? Not one line in the paper. Remarkable. -- Ron Gunderson, Ellicott City

Apparently, 72 years ago Dec. 7, an important event happened involving the United States and Japan. Does The Post have any information regarding this event? I think it had something to do with pearls. Maybe it was a trade agreement with Mikimoto that went bad? Any information the paper could supply would be appreciated by many, I’m sure. -- Steve Ripley, Arlington


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Japan; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; enemedia; japan; pearlharborday; washingtonpost
The rest of the title is: About Pearl Harbor on December 7
1 posted on 12/14/2013 5:31:32 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

“.... it had something to do with pearls. Maybe it was a trade agreement with Mikimoto that went bad? Any information the paper could supply would be appreciated by many, I’m sure.” — Steve Ripley, Arlington

Truly a GEM, and I’m surprised that they had the guts to publish it.

Thank you.


2 posted on 12/14/2013 5:35:54 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: Kaslin
Well, to be fair, ‘December 7th, 1941, A Day That Will Live in Infamy’, has since been trumped by a more infamous day that will live in Infamy: January 20th, 2009 (or November 4th, 2008 ... take your pick).
3 posted on 12/14/2013 5:45:38 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Kaslin

The both the remaining readers cancel their subscriptions?


4 posted on 12/14/2013 6:02:38 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: null and void

Take 2:

DID both the remaining readers cancel their subscriptions?

If not, why not?


5 posted on 12/14/2013 6:04:34 PM PST by null and void (I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
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To: Kaslin

what do you expect? it doesn’t fit with the agenda of the left

which is why they’re doing everything they can to make december 25 be known as ‘the day before boxer day’


6 posted on 12/14/2013 6:39:23 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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What exactly did they expect from the Washington Post?

A story about how the Yankee aggressors tricked the hapless Japanese into war? (Don’t laugh. There is a whole body of literature that makes just this claim. Pat Buchanan thinks that Hitler was a victim of Anglo-American imperialism. It is no more absurd than the neo-Confederate meme.)


7 posted on 12/14/2013 6:39:27 PM PST by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: Kaslin

People don’t know anything much about Pearl Harbor anymore. Many can’t even recall FDR.


8 posted on 12/14/2013 6:49:51 PM PST by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs are flirting with Christie, but it's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: Kaslin
wasn't pearl harbor just a bad movie like titanic? totes had no idea it was for realsies

that was like in the past and stuff anyway so who cares. it doesn't affect meeeeeee

9 posted on 12/14/2013 7:21:03 PM PST by varyouga
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To: iowamark

Hitler did have cause to go to war. FDR had reason to fear Hitler.


10 posted on 12/14/2013 7:44:04 PM PST by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: iowamark

I came to work in DC in 2010, for three years. I needed a daily newspaper, and signed up to the WashPost. I came to find four significant problems with the Post (took about thirty days to realize it):

1. Other than their one marginal column on public transportation in the local area on Sundays...they just didn’t cover anything on local region politics, corruption or eventful news. With all the issues of the DC city council...the Post just couldn’t do much to investigate or do any real journalism over their incompetence. It wasn’t a local paper to any degree.

2. For national events, it was a lousy choice because most everything was slanted.

3. For filler material, at least half the newspaper was marginal reading and worthless. They pretended to be a national paper, but couldn’t do the job. They pretended to be a local paper, but couldn’t do the job.

4. You were left with the opinion that these weren’t journalists running the paper.....they were mostly intellectual types selling some type of theme to their customers. They had plenty of art or museum or literature reviews. Robbery reports or police blotters? Nothing.


11 posted on 12/14/2013 8:53:09 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

A pal of mine who worked at the NBC Radio station in Washington, DC said the same thing.


12 posted on 12/14/2013 8:59:16 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: pepsionice
Isn't that what ppl. been saying for decades..
Watergate was a boon to Liberals..the Establishment.

13 posted on 12/14/2013 9:36:30 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi :-)
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To: Kaslin

Two things about the Wash Po and Dec. 7th.

*They are still blaming Pres. Bush for the fall of the Alamo. A little behind in their reporting.

*They wished the Japanese had won WW2

Now do you understand?.


14 posted on 12/14/2013 10:14:53 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

Not a surprise since the WaPo is a Communist rag. They don’t celebrate American Events. Only ones that destroy America.. like Barry’s election in 2008.


15 posted on 12/14/2013 10:19:32 PM PST by Bellagio
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To: null and void

The main reason for reading the Wash Post is to get intelligence on what the enemy is saying and thinking.

I’m serious. I learn more about communist infiltration of politics, the media, Hollyweird, and education in the WP (and an ocassional issue of the NY Times or POLITICO), than I do from regular liberal newspapers and network news, CCN, MSNBC, etc.

Only Glenn Beck actually exposed Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Frank Marshall Davis, David Axelrod, Obama, and the George Soros network of subversion that is the backbone of leftist organized support for Obie.

Their “Style” section is a pimp section for the Left, but once in a while you find out who is married to who in the incestuos Left media’s pantheon, that Harry Belaftone had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, in his apartment when King “wrote” the famous anti-Vietnam speech of April 1967 (who else was in that room, since the wording of that speech was almost a direct copy of Red Chinese propaganda
attacks on the US - i.e, the use of the word “machinations” and that “the US was the greatest purveyor of violence in the world”).

I’ll give you a potentially accurate hint, one Soviet operative and Communist Party USA leader, Jack O’Dell, King’s personal aide.

I’ve always wondered if Belafonte was a secret member of the CPUSA or a Member Without a Card. The more I read about him, the more Red he gets. Stayed in the closet a long time but came out swinging for communism.

Wash Post obituaries are always slanted leftward, esp. regarding hardcore leftists. Written in the manner that the Party used to refer to NYT obits written by a former longtime admitted member of the CPUSA Alden Whitman, as “he writes well of the Left dead”. They apparently supplied much of the information used in the obit because it was nothing but praise of these traitors, including Paul Robeson and Hugh Mulzac.

The Wash. Post used the term “victim of McCarthyism” or “McCarthy witchhunt era” whenever a red croaks, even if these people never appeared before his Senate Subcommittee. Post writers and others keep referring to Sen. McCarthy as the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee *HUAC - which is the Communist way of perverting its real name of “House Committee on UnAmerican Activities”. Plus they don’t know that a Senator cannot be the chairman of a “House Committee”, but to them, ignorance is propagandistic bliss.

[Look for this distoration/disinformation of obituaries in your own newspapers and check the writer/source. AP also does the McCarthy, witchhunt and HUAC line.]

If you want to know what the enemy is thinking, read their material, not just conservative stuff. That is called real intelligence gathering, not what passes for IP today.


16 posted on 12/14/2013 10:42:21 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

Two things about the Wash Po and Dec. 7th.

*They are still blaming Pres. Bush for the fall of the Alamo. A little behind in their reporting.

*They wished the Japanese had won WW2

Now do you understand?.


17 posted on 12/14/2013 10:43:34 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Kaslin

They forgot.


18 posted on 12/15/2013 7:04:09 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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