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They know the fine print! The Washington Post Co (NYSE: WPO) founded by Stilson Hutchins in 1877, publishes newspapers, principally the Washington Post, The Herald and about 40 other Maryland community newspapers. It has interests in TV broadcasting, cable, magazines, education and career development services. This $3.55 billion company is based in Washington, DC and employs about 16,400 people. It owns six TV stations, a regional cable system, and an educational services firm, Kaplan. In 2005 the company bought Slate, the online magazine, from Microsoft Corp.
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Tilting at windmills
- 2008-05-01
What worries me about Obama I Why didn't Barack Obama mention the military option in his otherwise eloquent call to service at Wesleyan? Why didn't he show respect for the people of West Virginia and Kentucky by doing more than token campaigning there? These are troubling questions for an...
Tilting at windmills
- 2008-04-01
My pastor problem When I last attended church regularly, my pastor, like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was a good man in many ways but had a few truly bizarre ideas. For one thing, he was obsessed with the cause of the Chinese Nationalists who had retreated to Taiwan after being...
American military officials believe, in the words of the Washington Post, that we have "dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq."
- 2007-11-05
American military officials believe, in the words of the Washington Post, that we have "dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq." According to the Post, some generals even favor a declaration of victory over the terror group. A declaration would be premature, because al-Qaeda in Iraq is...
Tilting at windmills
- 2007-09-01
How to clear your inbox The Small Business Administration canceled 8,000 loans to hurricane victims without notice to the borrowers. When the borrowers sought an explanation, they were told, according to Ron Nixon of the New York Times, "that they had voluntarily given up their loans," which was not...
DNC: Must Read: 'An Early Clash Over Iraq Report'
- 2007-08-16
To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Karen Finney or Caroline Ciccone of the Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8148 WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by the Democratic National Committee:Today's Washington Post follows up on a story first reported by the Los Angeles Times yesterday that exposed the Bush Administration's plan...
Tilting at windmills
- 2007-07-01
TB or not TB When reporters asked what had happened to the border agent who let Andrew Speaker into this country by ignoring a clear instruction not to do so, they were told he had been "reassigned." The level of accountability in our public life is, to put it...
Iraq War Coverage Differs In U.S., German Papers
- 2007-07-01
A content analysis of The Washington Post and the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung revealed that both papers relied on official sources, but the German paper provided far less coverage of the conflict. On March 19,2003, the United States military led a "pre-emptive" strike on Iraq, thrusting media into a...
Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Po
- 2007-05-28
Talk about Democratic unity! When Washington Post columnist David Broder chastised Senate majority leader Harry Reid for declaring that the war in Iraq "is lost," all 50 of Reid's Democratic colleagues in the Senate dashed off a letter to the Post attacking Broder. While the Democrats did not explicitly defend...
FOREIGN MINISTER TRAVELS TO BELGRADE TO ATTEND BSCE MEETING
- 2007-04-25
According to Milliyet, before flying to Belgrade to attend the 16th foreign ministers' meeting of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization BSCE, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul commented on a possible military operation against northern Iraq referring to the news of Washington Post, saying that careful statements were made on the issue...
TURKEY: FOREIGN MINISTER TRAVELS TO BELGRADE TO ATTEND BSCE MEETING.
- 2007-04-25
According to Milliyet, before flying to Belgrade to attend the 16th foreign ministers' meeting of Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization BSCE, Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul commented on a possible military operation against northern Iraq referring to the news of Washington Post, saying that careful statements were...
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