I’m running a free ad today after learning that The Washington Post refused to take money from Common Cause and the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund to run a wraparound “Fire Elon Musk” ad that would have taken up the front and back pages. The Post turned down $115,000, according to Alexander Bolton of The Hill.
“We submitted the artwork back on Tuesday of last week. I’m assuming it went through a legal department or other kind of review. They said, ‘You can have something inside the paper but you can’t do the wrap.’ We said thanks, no thanks because we had a lot of questions,” said Common Cause president Virginia Kase Solomón.
The ad was supposed to appear in papers delivered to the White House, Congress and the Pentagon.
Solomón observed that the Post recently accepted a wrap ad from the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers that enthused over Donald Trump’s pledge to “end the electric vehicle mandate on Day 1.”
“Is it because we’re critical of what’s happening with Elon Musk?” asked Solomón. “Is it only OK to run things in the Post now that won’t anger the president or won’t have him calling Jeff Bezos asking why this was allowed?”
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Please. The Washington Post is the daily newsletter of the Democrat Party.
The freakout over a *rare* instance of the Post not bludgeoning President Trump should not be a cause for hysterics.
And it’s hilarious that Dems are now screaming about “who’s running the country” after four years of Biden. The dude was almost invisible and *clearly* not in charge of the country, and it was the likes of Susan Rice, Jake Sullivan, Anita Dunn, Jill Biden, Mike Donilon, Jeff Zients, and others – all unelected!! – who were really running the show.
Meawhile, only weeks into office, Trump has had many press events *inside the Oval Office* while answering questions.
The Democrats ate over their skis yet again.
FYI: Apparently Facebook would not let me show the image, either simply be using your link, or reposting a screenshot.
That seems strange since I posted it without any problem.
A wrap-around kills newsstand sales; I’m not sure what their print business model is like at this point. What they could have done is a partial wrap-around where a normal “above-the-fold” is visible. But I can see turning down a political takeover of any kind.
To repeat two points that I made in my post: These were only intended for pre-purchased papers going to the White House, Capitol Hill and the Pentagon; and the Post had recently sold a wraparound ad to a group representing the energy industry.
Thank you for this post. On the nose.