{"id":459893,"date":"2021-04-27T13:35:35","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459893"},"modified":"2021-04-27T13:35:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:35:37","slug":"darkness-falls-bezos-owned-washington-post-to-stop-keeping-track-of-bidens-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/darkness-falls-bezos-owned-washington-post-to-stop-keeping-track-of-bidens-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Darkness Falls: Bezos-Owned Washington Post To Stop Keeping Track of Biden\u2019s Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdarkness-falls-bezos-owned-washington-post-to-stop-keeping-track-of-bidens-lies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=459893&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-525.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em> will no longer maintain a database of President Joe Biden&#8217;s false and misleading claims, executive fact checker Glenn Kessler <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GlennKesslerWP\/status\/1386857044137885697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, will continue to fact check statements from Biden and others. Kessler, for example, recently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-tim-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">challenged<\/a> Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s (R., S.C.) claim that his grandfather\u2014a black farmer who grew up in South Carolina during the Great Depression\u2014did not lead a particularly privileged life.<\/p>\n<p>Kessler\u00a0has determined that Biden does not lie enough\u2014he&#8217;s more of a &#8220;flub&#8221; kind of guy; an old geezer who&#8217;s trying his best\u2014to extend the database of presidential mistruths beyond his first 100 days in office. The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s readers, meanwhile, are presumably less interested in fact checks that don&#8217;t involve Donald Trump (or any Republican), so the decision makes sense from a business perspective.<\/p>\n<p>The move is the latest example of a journalistic organization <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/biden-accountability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abandoning<\/a> a crucial &#8220;accountability&#8221; project in the post-Trump era. It could also be related to the so-called burnout many professional journalists have complained about in recent weeks. The <em>New York Times<\/em> announced last week, for instance, that Taylor Lorenz and other employees would get <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/new-york-times-exhaustion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special days off<\/a>\u00a0for &#8220;exhaustion&#8221; in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s motto is &#8220;Democracy dies in darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post will no longer maintain a database of President Joe Biden&#8217;s false and misleading claims, executive fact checker Glenn Kessler announced this week. 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