Broken Press

814 examples of press incompetence

Posted by @briankrebs@infosec.exchange •

Historical perspective is fine and all that, but this headline comes across as just more whitewashing bullshit from WaPo's watered down opinion section.

A front-page opinion piece in The Washington Post today says Shocked by Trump's Profiteering? Here's some perspective. There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception. The story features a picture of a vulture behind the E pluribus unum (out of many, one) motto of the United States. The vulture is clutching the olive branches and arrows and looking down at a shield with a blue crest and vertical red and white lines below.
A front-page opinion piece in The Washington Post today says Shocked by Trump's Profiteering? Here's some perspective. There are periods in American history when graft was the rule, not the exception. The story features a picture of a vulture behind the E pluribus unum (out of many, one) motto of the United States. The vulture is clutching the olive branches and arrows and looking down at a shield with a blue crest and vertical red and white lines below.