With WaPo’s demise, what other sources of DC metro news coverage?
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Anonymous
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Today’s layoffs of 1/3 of Post employees is the final straw for me. I’m cancelling my subscription. I held onto it because A) want to support their journalists and B) it was my go-to for DC metro news. Can’t continue to support the empty shell Bezos is making the Post into.
Where do you gets DC metro news from these days? I don’t have regular TV, just streaming, so I don’t watch our local news channels. |
Anonymous
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Honestly, Washingtonianprobs on IG
Shrug |
Anonymous
Dumb. There's nothing that can replace the Post. Come back in 50 years. Maybe something will eventually emerge. |
Anonymous
The Washington Times is a great newspaper. |
Anonymous
+1 I have really grown to appreciate the Washington Times. |
Anonymous
| Hopefully The Baltimore Banner will expand its excellent local coverage south. |
Anonymous
I think it's safe to say there's going to be way, way less local news. We have the 51st or the Baltimore Banner but those publications are tiny and frankly not very good. The Post is the colossus and can't easily be replaced. |
Anonymous
Haha paid astroturfer here to promote DC's conservative rag. No. |
Anonymous
| To expand this a bit, the Post sports section is no more. What are good outlets for local sports coverage? |
Anonymous
| 51st.news has the local coverage feel that I'm looking for |
Anonymous
| Love these people who cancel their subscription to the Post, and then want to know what they can read instead. This is like burning down the Smithsonian museums and then being like "what other museums in DC can I go to instead?" |
Anonymous
The 51st is good for obsequious coverage of the DC government. If you want your local coverage to sound a bit like a press release, the 51st is for you. |
Anonymous
| Cancelling too. No point to the Post if it can't cover the metro. They were barely covering it anyway. Tons of ways to get national news stories. National news and opinion is basically a commodity. RIP the Post. But no good local options -- just local TV, the banner, maybe -- innuendo and gossiping neighbors whispering down the lane will probably become the de facto |
Anonymous
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DH is a journalist (not at WaPo) and we are unsure if we will keep our subscription. I can’t read their opinion section anymore and some of the news coverage is clearly being influenced. And the layoffs are not about becoming more competitive, as the editor claimed. How can we support that with our subscription?
But…it’s the WaPo. It is irreplaceable. And the journalists who remain will only be hurt by cancelling. So we feel stuck. God, I hate Bezos. |
Anonymous
| Love these people who claim to care about politics and public policy but won't subscribe to the Post. Apparently you don't care that much! |