However, the Washington Post thinks the goings on of a Starbucks is important. After all, it is located in the Central Intelligence Agency.
The article goes into the in depth quandaries of doing background checks on the Starbucks employees, the fact that receipts record the store number as number one, and that customers don't offer up a name, not even fake ones as I do.
My whole issue with all this is not who or how the CIA conducts operations in its own Starbucks. It can even recruit people to the Osama bin Laden Capture team for all I care, but what I do care about is the Washington Post's abject failure as a news organization.
Their coverage of the IRS and Benghazi scandals has been pitiful - acting more like a mouthpiece for the Administration than a member of the Fourth Estate. Even now, when Obama's popularity numbers are sagging, they feel it their responsibility to focus on coffee's ability to focus CIA employees rather than is the Administration focused on the threats America faces.
In case you missed it in the news, this Administration appears to have used the IRS to target groups it disagreed with politically. This Administration refused to protect its own overseas employees in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi and woops, in case anybody forgets, the CIA under this Administration has missed the growing presence of ISIS as a force.
I keep hearing how print media is going the way of the dinosaur and I keep wondering if they aren't hastening their own exit. They are creating the situations for why more than half of people don't want to read them. They are slanted propaganda pieces, not independent voices in the political arena. I apologize if I am ranting about a newspaper's misplaced focus, but I understand why they are dying off. In the meantime, I need a cup of coffee.
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