Bill Clinton's $18 million paycheck: Washington Post scooped by Record?

So how about Bill Clinton's $18 million as "honorary chancellor" from for-profit "Laureate University?" Does that sound like a bribe to you?

In December 2015, CNBC and reporter Jake Martin of The St. Augustine Record reported on this fat paycheck to the former president from the international parent company of the for-profit University of St. Augustine, which is being sued for fraud, subject of Mr. Martin's good enterprising reporting by The Record.

Now The Washington Post is finally reporting on Bill Clinton's fat paycheck, too.  Nine months after The St. Augustine Record reported it.  Is this the first time in 121 years that The Record ever scooped the Post on anything?  If so, kudos to Jake Martin.

Talk about a "backward-bending labor supply curve."  Talk about missing a scoop by a country mile.  The Post neglected to inform its readers about Clinton's Laureate University gig for ten months.  Sick.

Even under new ownership (Jeff Bezos of Amazon), The Washington Post is still a shadow of its former self during Watergate and WaPo's legendary managing editor Benjamin Crowninshild Bradlee.  Is the Post a second-rate newspaper compared to the investigative reporting and international coverage of The New York Times?  As a longtime Washington, D.C. resident, I felt WaPo was too often like The Oak Ridger in Tennessee -- little more than a press release for the government, particularly the U.S. State Department, a/k/a "Snake Dept."

The late New York Times Associate Editor Tom Wicker wrote in his 1978 masterpiece, On Press, that many local newspapers become captive of the predominant local economic interests. In Mr. Wicker's native North Carolina, it was tobacco. Here in Florida, it is dodgy, secretive "developers," tourism and government advertisers.  In Washington, D.C., it is government and lobbying.  Bill Clinton has long been a sacred cow, even when facing impeachment and potential removal from office.