WaPo dies in darkness

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?

Steve Miller

Cake. Yes, cake.

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309725/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-section

Bernard

Another one bites the dust. Ruth Marcus, one of their top political columnists has resigned. One of the three I used to read regularly.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/mar/10/washington-post-ruth-marcus-resigns

RealPlayer

I've been reading it from my daughter's subscription. Notices appear that her sub expires in 3 days. Looks like she's not renewing.

WTF-Beta

WaPo dies in darkness