If You Only Read The New York Times And Washington Post, You Have No Idea The Soros Leak Happened
If You Only Read The New York Times And Washington Post,
You Have No Idea The Soros Leak Happened
By Peter Hasson Reporter, Associate Editor 8:48 AM
08/22/2016
On June 4, 2016, the New York Times editorial board wrote
an article titled “Big Money Rearranges Its Election Bets.”
“Both parties are busy exploiting the power of barely
regulated super PACs to accept unlimited six and seven-figure donations for
candidates,” the editors wrote. “At the same time, campaigns are concealing the
names of other rich donors in ‘dark money’ operations palmed off as tax exempt
‘social welfare’ agencies supposedly dedicated to doing good, not to bare
knuckle politics.”
But two-and-a-half months later, when the internal
workings of a powerful political network palmed off as a tax-exempt “social
welfare” agency supposedly dedicated to doing good were released to the public
— unveiling the big money ties to many of the left’s top social causes — the
Times kept its readers in the dark.
Even as the Times ignored the major role Soros’s Open
Society Foundations network has played in American policy-making, the paper
wrote stories focusing on the role of wealthy donors in the Republican party.
Investor’s Business Daily wrote an editorial slamming the
Times, CNN, CBS News and the Washington Post for remaining silent on the
subject entirely.
The documents “provide juicy insider details of how a
fabulously rich businessman has been using his money to influence elections in
Europe, underwrite an extremist group, target U.S. citizens who disagreed with
him, dictate foreign policy, and try to sway a Supreme Court ruling, among
other things,” the editors wrote in an article titled “The Bizarre Media
Blackout Of Hacked George Soros Documents.”
“We couldn’t find a single story on the New York Times,
CNN, Washington Post, CBS News or other major news sites that even noted the
existence of these leaked documents, let alone reported on what’s in them,” the
editors noted. “Indeed, the only news organization that appears to be
diligently sifting through all the documents is the conservative Daily Caller,
which as a result has filed a series of eye-opening reports.”
By Sunday night, those news sites still hadn’t even
acknowledged the existence of the leaked Soros documents, much less their
content.
As noted by TheDC, the 14-member advisory board for OSF’s
U.S. operations includes members of the media, as well as Ivy League
professors, members of the Soros family and progressive activists.
Washington Post columnist Danielle Allen, for example,
serves on OSF’s board. Steve Coll serves on the board as well. Coll is a staff
writer for the New Yorker — which also has yet to mention the existence of the
Soros hack — as well as the dean of Columbia’s journalism school.
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