Posted on 09/30/2015 12:58:47 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
How do you spell hypocrisy? W-a-s-h-i-n-g-t-o-n P-o-s-t.
The Washington, D.C., paper of record has spent the past year filling bird cages and landfills with stories about income inequality – 156 in print alone and another 404 in blogs or 560 total. Subtract one of those (listed twice in LexisNexis) that included the name of billionaire Post owner Jeffrey Bezos.
The remaining 155 print and 403 blog mentions didn’t have any discussion of the newspaper’s fat cat owner.
Yet, Bezos is now the fourth-richest American with a fortune of $47 billion, according to Forbes. He purchased the Post for $250 million, wrote the Post.
According to the Sept. 29, Daily Mail: “But it was Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos who has emerged as the biggest overall gainer, adding a whopping $16.5 billion to his war chest in a single year after his company posted a quarterly profit in July.”
Whopping indeed. Bezos made 899,521 times the median household income in the United States -- $52,250. Were Bezos a nation, the $16.5 billion would give him a GDP rank of 150, just below Kosovo and above 81 nations including Guinea and Iceland.
Based on the past year (from Sept. 30, 2014-Sept. 29, 2015), Post readers won’t be told about that. Instead, they will hear about the horrors of income inequality. Here are just a few examples ripped from the pages funded by the Bezos billions:
“This fresh evidence of stubborn income inequality comes as the issue of Americans' financial well-being factors prominently in the 2016 presidential campaign.” – Sept. 17, 2015.
“Income inequality bedevils the United States, as does debt, of the public and private varieties.” – An Aug. 27, 2015, editorial. (Does Bezos read his own paper?)
“Income inequality and ensuring that hard work is adequately rewarded are likely to resonate with voters next year.” Another editorial, this one from Aug. 6, 2015.
Many of the stories cited comments from socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (running as a Democrat). “During his swing, Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, drew more than 2,500 people to a convention center here -- a record crowd for Iowa. Supporters leapt to their feet and screamed as he decried the ‘grotesque level’ of income inequality in the country and the outsize influence of the ‘billionaire class’ on its politics.”
(Wonder if Sanders considers newspaper owners as having influence on politics.
One Sept. 9, 2015, story was headlined: “The top priority for well-heeled business elite? Income inequality.”
The Post reported: “Harvard Business School alumni are more concerned with rising inequality, worsening poverty and the stagnating middle class than they are with slow economic growth, according to a new survey.”
Looks like Bezos picked up another 500 million overnight : )
What are you referring to ?
Forbes, WSJ, Bloom, et al said he was worth 16 billion yesterday.
So?
$500 million is a drop in the bucket.
PS: Can you lend me $20 ?
LOL!
Thanks MarvinStinson.
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