WaPo dies in darkness
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I cancelled my WaPo subscription when Bezos decided to censor his editorial board. Lost all respect. I have a NYTimes subscription but have only checked in once or twice since the election.... 24/7 news requires a lot of constantly talking heads and I just can't cope with it right now. In lieu of WaPo, I've gone over to The Guardian to see how that goes. I also follow TMP, and Robert Reich's substack. Need to check out MeidasTouch one of these days, I hear good things about it. I get snippets of news (small doses for now, thank you) from a gay site that has an overnight open thread.
Perhaps it's more of a wish than a prediction, but I won't be surprise if the new administration oversteps and shoot themselves in the foot. I think they're going to self implode.
@Bernard I walked away from WaPo and NYT a few years ago and am looking for new sources.
A few of us are reading Tangle.
I'm also trying out The Guardian.
Thanks for the info about TMP, Reich, and Meidas Touch. Will check them out.
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What is TMP? Talking Points Memo?
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What is TMP? Talking Points Memo?
@RealPlayer Oops. Yes, TPM, Talking Points Memo.
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I encourage all of you to check out ProPublica, if you haven't already. Best reporting I've seen in a long, long time.
@pique said in WaPo dies in darkness:
I encourage all of you to check out ProPublica, if you haven't already. Best reporting I've seen in a long, long time.
I’m guessing you are well familiar with this article.
https://www.propublica.org/article/thomas-weiner-montana-st-peters-hospital-oncology
Holy cow.
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My God.
What an awful story.
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I wonder what they thought would happen?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/06/washington-post-layoffs
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I wonder what they thought would happen?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/06/washington-post-layoffs
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Anne Telnaes quits the WaPo over content censorship.
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?r=smpq9&triedRedirect=true
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And then we have this awful thing:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/06/trump-tariff-economy-trade/
It’s obviously AI -weird phrasing, repeats itself, no investigative content, just a bunch of sanewashing.
Pity. They had a good run.
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Another good columnist gone:
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-resigned-from-the-washington
Why do tech bros persist in buying up
Media properties only to run them in to the ground? -
The Post’s owner quashed a presidential endorsement for Trump’s opponent, forked over $1M for Trump’s inauguration through Amazon, and publicly lauded Trump’s agenda.
None of us could imagine Katharine Graham sending LBJ or Nixon a $1M check.
I recently re-watched the four part documentary on Watergate with John Dean. Carl Bernstein talks about how when agents with subpoenas showed up to confiscate his notes, Graham said that they were her notes and that if anyone was going to jail for refusing to give them up, it was her. Bernstein says it still chokes him up when he recalls that memory.
