[numair]

This exchange is pretty funny to anyone who knows the background on the extremely cozy relationship between Katherine Graham and the CIA. It seems that, in our post-truth world, facts have become conspiracies and conspiracies have become facts. Alas.

[woodruffw]

Graham’s institutional connections were infamous; they also famously didn’t stop the WaPo from publishing the Pentagon Papers.

Confusing the media’s (noted) biases for compromise is an error in principled media consumption.

[stelonix]

If you look at the number of ex-CIA/intelligence now working for mainstream media, you'd have to suffer from a very bad case of American exceptionalism to suggest the fact they do not stand up to power (after Snowden) is NOT linked to their roles as state assets.