WashPo Spends $5.2M On Super Bowl Ad Lecturing Americans On The Importance Of Journos

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 04, 2019

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The Washington Post dropped some $5.2 million on a melodramatic Super Bowl ad on Sunday praising journos as heroes sacrificing their lives on battlefields so that we may be informed.

The Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos -- who was the world's richest man before his divorce -- attempted to associate their trash journos with WW2 vets, firefighters and the rocket scientists who got us to the moon in a 30 second propaganda piece narrated by Hollywood actor Tom Hanks.

The ad says:

When we go off to war.
When we exercise our rights.
When we soar to our greatest heights.
When we mourn and pray.
When our neighbors are at risk.
When our nation is threatened.
There’s someone to gather the facts.
To bring you the story.
No matter the cost.
Because knowing empowers us.
Knowing helps us decide.
Knowing keeps us free.

Here's what the journos at the Washington Post actually do:

In reality, they're not war heroes risking their lives to "bring us the story" but in fact America-hating propagandists who smear young kids for the crime of smiling while being white and Catholic.

Not surprisingly, the reactions were quite negative.

You know how MSM journalists could avoid having to spend millions on a #superbowl comercial to gain some undeserved credibility?

How about report the news and not their leftist BS for a change.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 4, 2019

Jeff Bezos spent millions of dollars to melodramatically lecture football fans about the Sacred Importance Of Journalism, which has to be the dumbest multi-million dollar expenditure of all time
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 4, 2019

Washington Post: please ordinary Americans, give us money for a newspaper subscription, it’s soooo important, democracy dies in the darkness

Also Washington Post: we have over 5 million dollars to blow on a Superbowl ad narrated by Tom Hanks
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) February 4, 2019

The Simpsons were right again pic.twitter.com/7YUa6SE6T1
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 2, 2019

Here's that left image:

Most entertaining Super Bowl commercial - Hanks declaring The Washington Post is shining a light on democracy. I’m almost done laughing now, but not quite.
— Randy Quaid (@RandyRRQuaid) February 4, 2019

There’s more truth in a YouTube cat video than a year’s subscription to the @washingtonpost. Get over yourselves. You’re “piss boys” for the @DNC. https://t.co/dFSExgTUT7
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) February 4, 2019

Washington Post union leader Fredrick Kunkle also criticized the Post for spending over $5 million on a 30 second ad while cutting journos' benefits, cutting severances, freezing pensions and making it easier to fire them.

1) The Post is now paying, say, $5M/30 seconds to tout journalistic freedom during one of the glitziest and – given the NFL’s knee-taking protests and concussions – more controversial sports events in our country #superbowl #wapostrong
— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) February 2, 2019

2) While I too am extremely proud of the Post and its legacy, this seems like an especially infuriating expense for a company that has: a) tried to take away health care insurance from part-time employees b) moved everyone toward riskier forms of health insurance #wapostrong
— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) February 2, 2019

3) c) made it easier to lay people off d) cut their severance e) frozen their pensions and resisted the smallest enhancements to remaining retirement benefits until Sen. Bernie Sanders shamed it into doing so
— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) February 2, 2019

4) f) refused to add a single day of paid parental leave to its measly four weeks
and g) must know that other media companies, sensing trouble ahead, have been trimming staff #wapostrong
— Fredrick Kunkle WaPo (@KunkleFredrick) February 2, 2019

The truth is the greatest threat to the free press in this country is the fake news media and their allies in Big Tech who are doing everything in their power to censor and suppress alternative media outlets for countering their lies.

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