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It would be interesting to gain some professional insight on what's happening here, as I (like several other responders) find this article somewhat objectionabl
by escape_goat 10y ago
It would be interesting to gain some professional insight on what's happening here, as I (like several other responders) find this article somewhat objectionable. The story that is presented literally ends with these words:
> the gift shop can’t sell the calendar because "it’s not an official work of the U.S. government
There's no need for punctuation, no need to close the quote. The story is over.
There's still a question in my mind, though, about how this came to pass. Looking at the story closely, it appears to largely consist of a human interest filler piece on one particular man's hobby devotion to the CIA, as well as the sentimentality of several former operatives; actually, I imagine some frowns at the CIA to see the story being published, because it looks awfully like a major national newspaper known for investigative journalism doing a favour to former (and possibly current) CIA employees by publicizing their pet project.
I don't have the experience to look at an article and recognize what it was meant to be, but the structure seems very awkward, and I am wondering if we are seeing a story that just turned out to be meaningless and was published anyway (the gift shop refusal) or a rather boring (to anyone without a 'patriotic'-type interest in the CIA) human interest piece that was unwisely and badly rearranged to justify a clickbait title.
Knowledgeable replies would be very welcome. I am willing to say things that are wrong if that would help inspire you.
- gertef 10y agoThe article goes on for many paragraphs after the end you saw. I think your browser/add-ons are incompatible withthe website.
- nyolfen 10y agospeaking of WaPo running CIA PR, from today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/27/why-its-so-hard-to-prove-russia-was-behind-the-election-hacks/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/27/...
- Natsu 10y agoThe Washington Post does a lot of favors they don't publicize. For example, this: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699 https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/2699 They made an arrangement with the WaPo to quietly add DNC donors to the party invite list. They wanted to put that on their donor price sheets, but the lawyers wouldn't allow it. It's not clear how or why this kind of stealthy donation of services from the WaPo to the DNC was better.
- 1337biz 10y agoAt this point I don't even click on WaPo links anymore even when the headlines sound interesting. Their one sided political ideologism makes the most politics-free stories into left-wing manifestos.
- linkregister 10y agoI think that's actually a really good article, thanks for posting it!
- 01Michael10 10y ago> There's no need for punctuation, no need to close the quote. The story is over. Huh? That's NOT the end of the article. Worse, somehow your comment is the most upvoted???