By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media On Thursday, May 10, The Washington Post Company held its annual meeting. AIM was there because of our ownership of company stock, enabling us to grill top brass about the condition of the newspaper and the company in general. The value of the company’s stock has fallen by 50 percent over the last five years. But the worst may be yet to come. Kaplan, the Post subsidiary that … [Read more...]
Washington Post Continues Kaplan Cover-up
March 12, 2012, 5:21 pm by Leave a Comment
Accuracy in Media Another story in The Washington Post, under the title of “Student loans seen as potential ‘next debt bomb’ for U.S. economy,” continues the paper’s practice of ignoring how a Post subsidiary is contributing to the problem. The student “debt bomb” is a real problem. The Post article is based on a report entitled, “The Student Loan ‘Debt Bomb:’ America’s Next Mortgage-Style Economic … [Read more...]
Scandal at The Washington Post: Fraud, Lobbying & Insider Trading
March 8, 2012, 8:13 pm by Leave a Comment
By: Rusty Weiss Accuracy in Media In the summer of 2010, business columnist for The Washington Post Steven Pearlstein lifted the veil on the little-known company operating procedure that involves an incestuous relationship between his own employer, and the scandal-plagued, for-profit university known as Kaplan.[1] In his column, Pearlstein made the argument that while personnel in the newsroom may have nothing to … [Read more...]
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