WaPo dies in darkness

[wtg]

@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.

https://www.readtangle.com/

I'm also trying out The Guardian.

Thanks for the info about TMP, Reich, and Meidas Touch. Will check them out.

[RealPlayer]

What is TMP? Talking Points Memo?

[Bernard]

@RealPlayer Oops. Yes, TPM, Talking Points Memo.

[Daniel]

The NYT and The Washington Post are mouthpieces for the CIA not that there are not countless others but these two are easy to avoid.

[pique]

I encourage all of you to check out ProPublica, if you haven't already. Best reporting I've seen in a long, long time.

[wtg]

@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.

[Steve Miller]

My God.

What an awful story.

[Daniel]

He got away with everything.

This story is horrifying.

The fact he used what he claimed to be Catholicism in the practice of medicine is bad enough but the fact he was acting as a cult leader is even worse.

Wow.

[CHAS]

WaPo struggling. Sinking?
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/17/washington-post-executive-editor-candidates-withdraw?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top

[ShiroKuro]

Bezos obviously knows how to run a commerce machine but his approach seems most likely to kill a journalistic enterprise.

[Bernard]

WaPo now has the company of ABC who has lost their credibility as well. We're in trouble when the media is owned by wealthy individuals or huge multi-national corporations.

[Steve Miller]

Might WaPo be sold?

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/washington-post-bezos-kara-swisher-bid-sale-b2668057.html

[ShiroKuro]

Where's that popcorn-eating gif when you need it....

[pique]

Absolutely did see the ProPublica story about St Peter's hospital and Dr. Death. The whole town is in an uproar over it.

[Steve Miller]

I wonder what they thought would happen?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/06/washington-post-layoffs

[ShiroKuro]

@Steve-Miller said in WaPo dies in darkness:

I wonder what they thought would happen?

Indeed!

[Piano*Dad]

Anne Telnaes quits the WaPo over content censorship.

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post?r=smpq9&triedRedirect=true

[Steve Miller]

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.

[Steve Miller]

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?

[wtg]

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.