WaPo dies in darkness
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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.
wrote on 8 Dec 2024, 23:55 last edited by wtg 12 Sept 2024, 00:52@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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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 04:29 last edited by
My God.
What an awful story.
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wrote on 9 Dec 2024, 08:28 last edited by Daniel 12 Sept 2024, 08:31
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.
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wrote on 17 Dec 2024, 11:32 last edited by
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wrote on 17 Dec 2024, 11:56 last edited by
Bezos obviously knows how to run a commerce machine but his approach seems most likely to kill a journalistic enterprise.
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wrote on 17 Dec 2024, 16:39 last edited by 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.
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wrote on 23 Dec 2024, 20:51 last edited by
Where's that popcorn-eating gif when you need it....
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wrote on 24 Dec 2024, 05:08 last edited by
Absolutely did see the ProPublica story about St Peter's hospital and Dr. Death. The whole town is in an uproar over it.
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wrote on 6 Jan 2025, 15:46 last edited by
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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wrote on 6 Jan 2025, 18:29 last edited by
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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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 19:54 last edited by 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
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 20:23 last edited by 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.
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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?wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 21:11 last edited by@Steve-Miller Oh, I'm so glad she left. She's way too good for Bezos. And I'm glad she's going to try and establish something independent.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 21:16 last edited by
Just subscribed.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 21:19 last edited by
I did too. I always enjoyed her work.
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wrote on 13 Jan 2025, 23:31 last edited by
This reminds me of William Randolph Hearst.
Newspapers have a long history of not being objective.
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wrote on 26 Feb 2025, 23:21 last edited by Steve Miller
