WaPo dies in darkness

[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.

[Bernard]

@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.

[Bernard]

Just subscribed.

[Steve Miller]

@Bernard

I did too. I always enjoyed her work.

[Daniel]

This reminds me of William Randolph Hearst.

Newspapers have a long history of not being objective.

[Steve Miller]

Hoo doggies! Jeff is going all in!

https://ibb.co/XfwrwBk7

Let ‘em eat cake?