Writers are such whores.[FreeBeacon] A Washington Post writer who recently claimed that a $400 million cash payment to Iran was “American diplomacy at its finest” failed to disclose that he has been on the payroll of an organization that emerged as a chief architect of the White House’s self-described campaign to build a pro-Iran “echo chamber,” according to information obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Allen S. Weiner, a Stanford law professor and contributor to the Post’s opinions section,
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Weiner and the Post failed to disclose that the writer has long been on the payroll of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization recently exposed as a key cog in a White House-orchestrated campaign to build what it called a pro-Iran “echo chamber.”
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The Post’s failure to disclose Weiner’s ties has raised questions about its commitment to journalistic ethics and is reminiscent of a recent scandal concerning National Public Radio, which was forced to run a series of corrections due to its own failure to disclose monetary ties to Ploughshares.
“This is becoming a pattern with the Washington Post,” said one senior foreign policy observer who works with a range of newspapers on Iran coverage. “In the last few weeks their journalists have quoted people who get Ploughshares money and their op-ed page has run opinions by people who get Ploughshares money—and none of it was disclosed.”
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