BIG CHANGES AT THE WASHINGTON POST?
According to highly placed media experts, The Washington Post Company is planning to make major changes in its flagship holding, The Washington Post. This venerable media relic, sources say, will be reformated as a tabloid, and it will soon be a physical match with its primary competitors, The National Enquirer, the Star, and the Globe. However, what is a truly radical change for the Post, according to these sources, is that the saucy journal may soon become bilingual or 100% Spanish language.
Under the adroit hand of the late Katherine Meyer Graham, The Washington Post Company became both a powerful media voice and a highly successful business enterprise. The business skills of “Bosslady” were not inherited by her strange son, Donald. He only inherited similar tastes in lovers. The Post has suffered ever since the untimely and suspicious death of Mrs. Graham.
Parenthetically, the circumstances of her death are said to be quietly under investigation still by Wyoming authorities. There are too many disquieting pieces of information uncovered, such as the “Kiss of Donnie” card found in her hospital room. Whether any charges will ever be officially made is presently uncertain.
Be that as it may, the present circumstances of The Washington Post Company are not encouraging. With the “captain of the ship” only occasionally onboard, the once-mighty media enterprise has been traveling “three sheets to the wind.” When contacted for directions by Post top executives, according to insiders, Donald Graham has a blend of amused and confused feelings vying for command of his features, but he makes no reply.
As top executives proceed to sell off or simply “shut down” formerly profitable units of The Washington Post Company, many media analysts on Wall Street wonder if the Post can be saved at all. Many Post employees have been forced to retire or simply dismissed (”let go”), say well-placed media observers, as the print media must feast on the bitter fruit of modern public education.
With this unfavorable business climate apparent, according to long-time observers of the Post, top executives of the company were able to get Donald Graham to approve the hiring of a top Wall Street investment house (said to be Goldman Sachs) to find a way out for the Graham family and The Washington Post Company, the parent company of the Post. After much study, a plan was devised to rescue The Washington Post Company and its ill newspaper unit.
The Wall Street-authored plan was to make a radical bet on America’s future. Given the massive movement of Latinos into the U.S.A. and given the high birth rate which Latinos exhibit and given their “most favored citizen” treatment by the Establishment (to which, of course, Donald Graham would be privy), the correct business decision was to change The Washington Post from an English language newspaper to a Spanish language newspaper. The dividends from this switch would be apparent within a generation, as Latinos were “fast-forwarded” into top executive positions from the White House and Pentagon to State governments to law firms and international corporations, including media. As the Wall Street analysts observed: This is no longer a “hamburger culture”; it’s a “taco culture.”
This perception has not been limited to Wall Street investment houses. Even Establishment media from time to time note the changes, which the Elite pretend “just happened.” Consider:
In the 21st century–and that’s not far off–racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. will outnumber whites for the first time. The “browning of America” will alter everything in society, from politics and education to industry, values and culture. [GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE, Ted Weiland, page 322, quoting TIME Magazine, "Beyond the Melting Pot," April 19, 1990].
Further, consider:
Nothing will be more rare in the future than a white person, and nothing may be less important than the white man’s ways…[GOD'S COVENANT PEOPLE, supra, quoting Jim Dator, political scientist, CHICAGO TRIBUNE]
From such insights, insiders proceed. Therefore, the advice of Wall Street to The Washington Post executives were not likely to fall upon deaf ears. Again, one option was a complete changeover to Spanish language print. The other was that the Post could publish a bilingual newspaper. The format could vary. Initially, the Post might print the days news in English, followed by a second section printed in Spanish. As the demographics went “brown,” the Post could then switch to a Spanish first, then followed by an English news section. By the same process, the inclusion of Yiddish words would give over to Ladino words (both used to add color, warmth and humor).
Still another print option (and one much favored by educators) would be to print English and Spanish columns side by side. Using this method, the English speaking Americans would have the option of comparing and slowly learning Spanish. This would smooth the transition into all Spanish print. Already, English-speaking Americans are filling their vocabularies with “Spanish” expressions overheard from Latino co-workers. Hence, top analysts see a fairly rapid transition to Spanish.
As the union of North and South America into first “trading partners” (NAFTA) and then “political partners” (”Pan-American Union”) proceeds, well-positioned newspapers in the great American cities will harvest tremendous growth in prominence and circulation. According to all analysts, that means more advertisement revenue. The present “hard times” of The Washington Post may one day not far off be replaced by an abundant stream of ad revenue which “Bosslady” Graham could never have dreamed possible.
As Emil told Donald: “Donnie, you’re going to be a ‘Don’ one day!”
All rights reserved. Nomoonnight, 2008.
