We could start with the fact
that the buyer, Jeff Bezos, the boss at Amazon.com, is a
Bilderberg attendee. So the newspaper “stays in the family.”

But the Post sold itself
because it was hemorrhaging money. It was going deep into
the red because of the Internet—no, strike that. It was
wallowing in debt because it was failing to give people what
they wanted: The truth. There it is.

And that’s why other “great”
newspapers are also crashing on the rocks. Truth sells. Who
knew?

Conversely, the same tired
lies from the same tired sources wear out. The same heavily
restricted contexts surrounding news stories put readers to
sleep.

There is a way print
newspapers can survive and thrive, even now. But they would
have to cancel their membership in the Psyop Club.

These newspapers have major
resources. They have reporters who, if let loose, without
restraints, would eventually learn how to cover a real
story. Anyone could.

And covering an explosive
story, from the editor’s and publisher’s angle, means
pounding on it week after week, month after month. It means
printing, on occasion, two editions of the paper a day,
because the story is so hot.

It means digging deeper and
deeper, which results in sources who were formerly silent
coming out of the woodwork and adding new pieces. The story
grows. It sprouts new branches. It encompasses more. It
indicts multiple criminals. It exposes roots….

The Washington Post could
launch a new policy tomorrow, which would consist entirely
of offering a detailed explanation of how it has conned its
readers for the last 50 years. That would be the whole
substance of its future issues—and it would sell more papers
than it is selling now.

Journalism schools should
begin teaching students how to invent spurious realities
from the ground up, piece by piece. Bring it all out in the
open.

Every major newspaper is a
covert intelligence agency. Their actions mirror those of a
CIA or an MI-6. Agents (reporters), case officers (editors),
fake cover stories (articles), false trails, limited
hangouts, the invention of superficial enemies, false flags.

The agents (staff reporters)
are the true believers. They support and sustain the whole
operation by their conviction that the illusion is real.
Those reporters who don’t buy into the illusion can keep
their jobs by going along with the charade and keeping their
mouths shut.

If they speak out, they lose.
They’re fired and blackballed.

The newspapers have a
standard “book of dreams.” All stories emanate from that
book, which establishes the context out of which reporting
proceeds.

So it is with most people’s
lives. They perceive reality and respond to it in patterned
ways. They exist within defined boundaries.

But as a civilization
declines, people yearn for escape. They want something new.
They want open spaces.

If, by some miracle, major
newspapers provided an exit from straitjacket realities, by
exposing the underlying manipulation of informational mind
control, they wouldn’t be able to print enough editions to
satisfy their customers.

But they prefer suicide. So
be it.

Jon Rappoport