Wednesday's Final Word
The article discusses various news stories, including the release of a report on rape gangs in the UK and the lack of coverage by major news outlets. Twitter, now owned by Elon Musk, has allowed for public debate and discussion of the report, with nearly one million people reading it in just over 24 hours. The article also touches on other topics, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' comments on the Washington Post and a new agreement between the US and Iran to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz.
- ▪A national review of previously closed files on grooming gang cases has been referred back to police forces in the UK
- ▪Amazon founder Jeff Bezos called the Washington Post his worst investment in a conversation with President Trump
- ▪The US and Iran have remotely signed a memorandum of understanding to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz
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| Original publisher | HotAir |
| Canonical URL | https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2026/06/17/wednesdays-final-word-n3816064 |
| Publication time | Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:00:00 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-18T02:32:27.622Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-18T02:32:27.622Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | q9jzGJPA8nKJ · 4 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Wednesday's Final Word Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | June 17, 2026 AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson Yeah, it's big and dumb as a tab can come, but it's stronger than a media gloss ...Imagine if this had come out before @elonmusk bought Twitter. Would we even know about it? @nytimes - Nothing.@washingtonpost - Nothing.@latimes - Nothing. @wsj - Nothing@cnn - nothingReemeber when the NYT ran a feature on "rape dogs" in Israel without evidence? https://t.co/mSIQaViQ44— Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) June 17, 2026 Advertisement googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display("div-gpt-300x250_4"); //googletag.pubads().refresh([gptAdSlot["div-gpt-300x250_4"]]) }); Ed: David Burge once wrote that the media's role was to cover stories, with a blanket until it stopped moving.
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