The Washington Post published two articles about its Kaplan subsidiary on Dec. 7 that illustrate themes we addressed in our blog the same day, which we entitled, "The Washington Post's Hidden Agenda?" Our colum addressed the inherent conflict when the Kaplan subsidiary provides 62% of the Post's revenue, with some methods allegedly so deceptive they are being aggressively investigated by state and federal authorities and other methods government funded or otherwise controversial. A newspaper's watchdog function on behalf of its readers, who contribute 4% of the Post's revenue via circulation and some 15% via advertising, is inevitably compromised when the lion's share of revenue is from another source.
In a related matter, the prominent Democratic lawyer and political commentator Lanny Davis founded a firm that represents the for-profit education industry, of which Kaplan is a prominent part. The news media, including the Post, frequently quote Davis regarding his views, which tend to espouse similar policies as the Post's editorial page. Melanie Sloan, longtime executive director of the watchdog group Citizens for Reponsibility in Ethics in Washington (CREW), has joined the Davis firm. She and CREW wrote a letter to Congress last summer suggesting that critics of the for-profit education sector were overzealous. Her letter followed a political column by Davis in a Capitol Hill newspaper making similar points. She and Davis say they came to independent conclusions, and decided only afterward to work together.
The new Post articles are excerpted below, with the full stories available by clicking the links:
The Justice Integrity Project announced last month that we could fulfill our mission of legal reform only if we expanded our commentary to include media trends that curtail aggressive reporting of documented abuses. Today, we’ll examine how the Washington Post's revenue stream from its 
the Justice Integrity Project's most current national round-up of news about misconduct allegations involving law enforcement, a Georgia stripper further implicated a disgraced federal judge. Also, a former Wall Street Journal editor decried U.S. State Department lawlessness apparent from the most recent Wikileaks release. 
information on UN officials from the Secretary General down, including "heads of peace operations and political field missions." 
OpEd News
hael Lerner, Dec. 4, 2010. [T]here is a real way to save the Obama presidency: by challenging him in the 2012 presidential primaries with a candidate who would unequivocally commit to a well-defined progressive agenda and contrast it with the Obama administration's policies....Far from weakening his chances for reelection, this kind of progressive primary challenge could save Obama if he moves in the desired direction. And if he holds firm to his current track, he's a goner anyway.
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sideline while his record has been scrutinized. His entry has the potential to reshape the Democratic primary contest.
Mr. Biden, 76, is set to offer himself as a levelheaded leader for a country wracked by political conflict, a rationale he believes could attract a broad cross-section of voters who want to move on from Mr. Trump. In a three-and-a-half minute video laying out his reasons for running, Mr. Biden chose not to talk about policy issues or his biography but instead began by recalling the white supremacist march through Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 and a counterprotest, and Mr. Trump’s comment that there were “very fine people on both sides.” In that moment, Mr. Biden said, “I knew the threat to our nation was unlike any I’d ever seen in my lifetime.”
2016 Democratic nominee for president.
First, like in any time our nation is threatened, we have to remember that this is bigger than politics. What our country needs now is clear-eyed patriotism, not reflexive partisanship.
director of the Justice Integrity Project and the author of Presidential Puppetry, joins S.T. Patrick to discuss presidential politics of the last 40 years. What should we have known about George H.W. Bush, Bill & Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, John Kerry, John Edwards, and John McCain?
Bush and the October Surprise, the Willie Horton ad, The Election of 1992, Ross Perot’s deficiencies, what Fletcher Prouty still teaches us, the legitimacy of Bob Dole’s 1996 nomination, the value of Jack Kemp, Bush v Gore, The Two Johns: Kerry & Edwards, the real John McCain, and much more.
