Washington Post
Where each worldview places it
One of "America's main newspapers", which Icke calls "Elite-controlled"[1]. Its owner Katharine Graham is "Kissinger's friend" and a Bilderberg media member, and he says it is Round Table controlled[2].
- Controls / directs
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- Answers to / controlled by
- Places
- Key events
- 1972–74: its Watergate stories pressure Nixon out, in what Icke calls a Kissinger-run setup[4]
- 1980s: it and "the rest of the mainstream media ... kept their heads down" over Iran-Contra[5]
- 1992: supports Clinton against Bush[6]
- January 1995: a 4,000-word Morris-Denton article exposing Barry Seal's drug-running at Mena is withdrawn, showing "the power of the Elite to control the major newspapers"[7]
- 1995-12-06: carries a full-page advertisement for a UN world army[8]
- Members / notable people
- Author's claims · 4
- 01It did not report that Kissinger had been named in the Moro trial[9].
- 02With the Los Angeles Times it ridiculed the San Jose Mercury News story on CIA drug-running[10].
- 03It published Jessica Mathews' promotion of global governance[11].
- 04In the later books it is owned by Jeff Bezos, long connected to the Deep State; in late 2016 it published the anonymous PropOrNot list of 200 "Russian propaganda" sites and a false Russian grid-hack story[12].