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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — The Washington Post Co. has agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family's stewardship of one of America's leading news organizations after four generations.
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The Atlantic Online:
The Politics of New Washington Post Owner Jeff Bezos — The Amazon.com founder and CEO is a strong backer of gay marriage and an internet sales tax but otherwise fairly opaque. — In a shocking announcement late Monday, The Washington Post Co. announced that it's selling its eponymous newspaper …
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Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos — Bezos, in an interview, called The Post “an important institution” and expressed optimism about its future. “I don't want to imply that I have a worked-out plan,” he said. “This will be uncharted terrain, and it will require experimentation.”
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Jeff Bezos / Washington Post:
Jeff Bezos on Post purchase — To the employees of The Washington Post: — You'll have heard the news, and many of you will greet it with a degree of apprehension. When a single family owns a company for many decades, and when that family acts for all those decades in good faith …
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Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years
Bezos In 2012: People Won't Pay For News On The Web, Print Will Be Dead In 20 Years
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Emily Bell / Business Insider:
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
Jeff Bezos' Shocking Washington Post Buy Was Not A Business Deal — It Was A Cultural Statement
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Washington Post sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos for $250 million
Washington Post sold to Amazon's Jeff Bezos for $250 million
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TIME:
The Hidden Motivation Behind GOP Threats to Boycott NBC, CNN — The Republican Party threatened Monday to pull 2016 Republican primary debates from CNN and NBC if they do not drop plans for special programs on potential 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton—a move that could help …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC hits NBC, CNN for Hillary films; threatens to pull debate rights
RNC hits NBC, CNN for Hillary films; threatens to pull debate rights
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Jonathan Bernstein / The Plum Line:
GOP threatens to retreat deeper into closed information feedback loop
GOP threatens to retreat deeper into closed information feedback loop
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Variety:
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
CNN Calls Republicans' Hillary Clinton Threat 'Disservice to ‘Voters’
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
RNC warns networks: Drop Clinton movies or lose 2016 GOP debates
RNC warns networks: Drop Clinton movies or lose 2016 GOP debates
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Shushannah Walshe / ABC News:
RNC Says No Debates If NBC and CNN Don't Pull Clinton Movies
RNC Says No Debates If NBC and CNN Don't Pull Clinton Movies
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Jillian Rogers / GOP.com:
RNC Chairman Calls on NBC and CNN to Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton
RNC Chairman Calls on NBC and CNN to Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Wendy Davis: 'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case' — Texas state senator Wendy Davis spoke at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Monday afternoon about her 13-hour filibuster of a bill limiting late-term abortion, her life story, and her future in politics.
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Texas governor race 2014: Wendy Davis: I will run for reelection or governor
Texas governor race 2014: Wendy Davis: I will run for reelection or governor
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rep. Ted Yoho Praises Birther Conspiracy, Calls Obamacare Racist Against White People — UPDATE: More of Yoho's far-right comments here. — Speaking at a town hall meeting earlier this month, Florida Republican congressman Ted Yoho promised that he would support possible birther legislation floated …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Howard Kurtz responds to Tina Brown — Howard Kurtz says he will “take the high road” in response to Newsweek editor Tina Brown's public attack on him earlier today, in which she admitted that Kurtz had been fired for “serial inaccuracy.” — “I'm going to take the high road and say I'm proud …
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Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans — (Reuters) - A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across …
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Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker:
Get The Full Weiner Experience with Sydney Leathers' ‘Sex Tape’ [NSFW] — Want to see what's so great about Sydney Leathers' naked bits that Anthony Weiner felt compelled to annihilate his political prospects over them? — Well, luckily for you, Ms. Leathers is just as shameless as you are!
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Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
House GOP Weighs Defunding ACORN In 13th Vote To Block Funds To Defunct Organization — WASHINGTON — When House GOP leaders abruptly shelved a bill to fund standard federal transportation and housing programs last Wednesday, one of the legislation's few uncontroversial provisions …
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New York Times:
Qaeda Leader's Edict to Yemen Affiliate Is Said to Prompt Alert — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's decision last week to close nearly two dozen diplomatic missions and issue a worldwide travel alert resulted from intercepted electronic communications in which the head of Al Qaeda …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
The Front Man — Conservatives have for years attempted to put our finger upon precisely why Barack Obama strikes us as queer in precisely the way he does. There is an alienness about him, which in the fever swamps is expressed in all that ridiculous Kenyan-Muslim hokum …
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Ruben Navarrette / CNN:
Christie vs. Paul vs. Rubio vs. Cruz — the Republican implosion — Editor's note: Ruben Navarrette is a CNN contributor and a nationally syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Follow him on Twitter: @rubennavarrette. — San Diego, California (CNN) …
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Wayne Slater / Trail Blazers Blog:
Rick Perry shows up in new glasses at RedState gathering — NEW ORLEANS - Rick Perry didn't look like the same politician of two years ago at the RedState conservative blogger conference on Saturday. For one thing, when the Texas governor showed up in New Orleans, he was wearing black horn rimmed glasses …
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Antoni Slodkowski / Reuters:
Exclusive: Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’ — TOKYO - Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an “emergency” that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday.
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Perry Stein / Talking Points Memo:
Chambliss: Closure Of Embassies 'Most Serious Threat I've Seen In A Number Of Years' — Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), the top ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday the “chatter” that led to the closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world was “very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.”
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