Wash Post—new editor from WSJ!?

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Anonymous wrote:Can't speak for all of us WaPo employees, but I'm not happy....

Your employer is circling the drain and you want one final DEI hire to be the person who fires everyone and turns out the lights.

The paper is owned by the richest man in the world, who just endorsed a new long-term 10-year business plan. I don't honestly think it matters to him how much money it's losing, and I think it's extremely unlikely any of these new people will be firing everyone and turning out the lights.

And while you're using "DEI hire" as a racially coded stand-in for "unqualified," I'd say "random editor at the Telegraph who's never worked in U.S. journalism" also sounds unqualified to run a major newspaper here.

DP. It was actually a little funny and the fact that you cannot just laugh at the absurdity of it a little is very telling for what ails the paper.

Oh, believe me, plenty of people at the paper are laughing at the absurdity of some of these management decisions. Just not at the racist jokes about them.

It wasn’t a racist joke though. It was a joke pointing to the absurdity of making management diversity your primary concern above all when your Publisher has told you directly that the paper is hemorrhaging money and no one is reading your work.

Since you seem incapable of having a sense of humor, let me ask sincerely if it would make you feel better if the person making these changes was a Black woman?

Considering that it was a Black woman that reigned in the similar problem at WAMU/DCist, I’m going to speculate that the answer is no.

I guess I just don't think jokes about DEI hires are funny, sorry; if that makes me "incapable of having a sense of humor," I guess I'll have to live with that shame.

I don't think anyone is saying management diversity is their primary concern. Or at least, not anyone I've spoken to. I think the real primary concern is that no one has heard any details at all about this new plan the previous editor disliked enough that she lost her job rather than carry it out. I do think it's pretty outlandish to just go hire people you know without even looking around at other possible candidates, regardless of diversity. You think it's totally fine for the CEO to hire the two top positions for half of the company without consulting or considering anyone else, fine, but I don't think that would fly at many other places. It certainly wouldn't fly at any other newspapers.

FWIW, I'm a middle-aged white guy, so I'm theoretically better off if other middle-aged white guys start giving middle-aged white guys promotions we don't have to compete with anyone else for. But that doesn't mean I think it's a particularly smart way to run a business.

What’s interesting is that you are the one who is caught up on race and diversity. The Publisher clearly does not care if you are a green martian, what he wants is results. I am sorry to break it to you, but your beliefs that you are going to benefit as a mediocre white guy demonstrates some inherent supremacist thinking on your part that you may want to get in touch with.

It is no surprise. Poll after poll finds that it is well-educated whites who are the most progressive and leading the change for DEI and LBGTQ++ initiatives.

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From “flyover country?” WTF are you talking about. They are a bunch of progressive scolds from the North East who want to tell you how to shower, shave and generally live your life. The paper is an absolute joke. Except for Taylor Lorenz. I cannot get enough of her brand of crazy. [/quote]

PP here, WTF I mean is that not only are they progressive scolds, they are progressive scolds who think the latest Marvel movie is some kind of impactful art worthy of praise just like some dork from Nebraska. At least some of the Northeast progressive scolds are aware of good art and culture, the Post is a cultural desert. [/quote]

I have lots of problems with the Post, including that they don’t seem to be replacing Peter Marks, but I think Sebastian Smee is very good and I like Ann Hornaday as well. [/quote]

Whoever hired Kriston Capps as an art critic should be the first one fired.

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says the two new WaPo editors are great!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/03/washington-post-matt-murray-robert-winnett/

This rag is a parody of itself.

Wait, but half the people on here are yelling at Post staffers for NOT liking these editors.

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Anonymous wrote:He's the publisher, not the editor.

Even worse

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo says the two new WaPo editors are great!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/03/washington-post-matt-murray-robert-winnett/

This rag is a parody of itself.

Wait, but half the people on here are yelling at Post staffers for NOT liking these editors.

Who are you arguing with? No one says that you need to like your boss.

I’m personally in the stop whining and grow up camp.

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Anonymous wrote:He used to work in Murdoch land. I also see they removed “Democracy Dies in Darkness” and now “Independent Newspaper”. He is editor through the election. Bezos shows his cards—not a pretty sight.

Where? I just went to the washington post website and it still says "democracy dies in darkness" right at the top.

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Oh goody--I'm sure with the new editors we'll get many more gem articles like this infamous The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

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Anonymous wrote:Oh goody--I'm sure with the new editors we'll get many more gem articles like this infamous The ideal number of kids in a family: Four (at a minimum).

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/30/family-size-big-families/

That one was from Opinions, which does not have a new editor.

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The Post's conference is so bad sometimes. Like the NY Times reported about Alito's wife flying those insurrectionist flags over their house, and then the WaPo pops in and was like "oopsie, we had that story years ago, but our editor thought it wasn't a story."

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Ditto everyone who has pointed out how needed a change this is. I subscribed to the Post for about 20 years (since college) but dropped it over Covid when I got so fed up with their refusal to do actual reporting on local issues. Instead Local was just a regurgitation of press releases the county gov or school boards put out plus “random person perspectives” interview pieces.

Their ridiculously shallow coverage of the VA plans to revamp math education (which had implications for VA governor race so was no small peanuts issue) is what finally did me in.

I’d be willing to give it another shot if:
1) they offered a couple free articles a month online so I could see if reporting has changed at all. Unlike most other publications though Post blocks ALL articles from non-subscribers.

2) they restored actual reporting of local issues

3) like others have said they have got to reign in the far left bent. I’m a moderate D voter and even for me it veered too far off to one side that it was clear reporting couldn’t be inpartial anymore.

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Clash Over Phone Hacking Article Preceded Exit of Washington Post Editor
Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/business/media/washington-post-buzbee-lewis.html

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a faithful reader for 40 years and just cancelled my subscription. Going to try NY Times. Maybe WaPo can get back on track. Maybe this editor can help.

Trade one loser for another.

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Anonymous wrote:The Post's conference is so bad sometimes. Like the NY Times reported about Alito's wife flying those insurrectionist flags over their house, and then the WaPo pops in and was like "oopsie, we had that story years ago, but our editor thought it wasn't a story."

Journalistic malpractice.

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Post Executive: We lose 77 million dollars a year. Our numbers have been cut in half. Former customers want us to eat shit and are laughing at our plight.

Post Journalists: Read the room. A diverse hire should be telling us this.

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Eat shi$ Post