Wash Post—new editor from WSJ!?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Post became an organ for "the resistance" in 2016. They made it their motto. At the time, many readers, myself included, cheered this move and happily subscribed. However, it quickly became clear that this didn't mean great truth-telling journalism--it meant propaganda. "Good" stories only, please, inconvenient truths not allowed. We saw this at the Times, too--the Donald McNeil firing, running Barry Weiss out of the paper with a Slack revolt, and the "literal violence" of the Tom Cotton OpEd. Within a couple years, readers abandoned ship when it became clear that News news had become OpEd and OpEd a reprint service for the DNC. A specific demographic (20-something LAC grads, grievance Olympics gold medalists) had taken over the newsroom, and management never had a chance. Read Michael Moynihan's recent piece on Vice's self immolation for a case study. The reason a WSJ exec is taking over now is that that paper never committed ritual suicide, and Bezos needs an adult to keep the place from shuttering. The WSJ has quietly become the only real *News*paper left... although the NYT's quiet course correction back to sanity is promising. I hope WaPo follows suit.

You seem to mistake the NYT editorial page with the news department. The direction of the editorial page under James Bennet was an absolute disaster. He favored being provocative above all. Bari Weiss deserved to lose her job. He also hired Elizabeth Bruenig who also deserved to lose her job.

NYT News started veering left in 2016. They killed or throttled stories that didn't fit the narrative. Covid lab leak, Hunter Biden laptop, anything negative on Ukraine, etc. while running Trump 24/7 to drive engagement. OpEd page was cleaned of any "incorrect" voices at the same time. Your assertion that Bari Weiss "deserved" to lose her job kind of gives you away, just so you know.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Post became an organ for "the resistance" in 2016. They made it their motto. At the time, many readers, myself included, cheered this move and happily subscribed. However, it quickly became clear that this didn't mean great truth-telling journalism--it meant propaganda. "Good" stories only, please, inconvenient truths not allowed. We saw this at the Times, too--the Donald McNeil firing, running Barry Weiss out of the paper with a Slack revolt, and the "literal violence" of the Tom Cotton OpEd. Within a couple years, readers abandoned ship when it became clear that News news had become OpEd and OpEd a reprint service for the DNC. A specific demographic (20-something LAC grads, grievance Olympics gold medalists) had taken over the newsroom, and management never had a chance. Read Michael Moynihan's recent piece on Vice's self immolation for a case study. The reason a WSJ exec is taking over now is that that paper never committed ritual suicide, and Bezos needs an adult to keep the place from shuttering. The WSJ has quietly become the only real *News*paper left... although the NYT's quiet course correction back to sanity is promising. I hope WaPo follows suit.

You seem to mistake the NYT editorial page with the news department. The direction of the editorial page under James Bennet was an absolute disaster. He favored being provocative above all. Bari Weiss deserved to lose her job. He also hired Elizabeth Bruenig who also deserved to lose her job.

NYT News started veering left in 2016. They killed or throttled stories that didn't fit the narrative. Covid lab leak, Hunter Biden laptop, anything negative on Ukraine, etc. while running Trump 24/7 to drive engagement. OpEd page was cleaned of any "incorrect" voices at the same time. Your assertion that Bari Weiss "deserved" to lose her job kind of gives you away, just so you know.

Plus 1, and you forgot ignoring our southern border crisis.

[Anonymous]

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NYT News started veering left in 2016. They killed or throttled stories that didn't fit the narrative. Covid lab leak, Hunter Biden laptop, anything negative on Ukraine, etc. while running Trump 24/7 to drive engagement. OpEd page was cleaned of any "incorrect" voices at the same time. Your assertion that Bari Weiss "deserved" to lose her job kind of gives you away, just so you know.

Bari Weiss?

Nice job giving the game away, MAGAturd

[Anonymous]

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What’s ironic is that it was a Black woman that had to clean up the mess at the local WAMU affiliate and they complained all the same and even tried to leak damaging stories about her to ruin her reputation. The local journalists were less respectful of her than how they are now with the white male Post management team.

Yeah, firing half the WAMU newsroom in a "pivot to audio" is "cleaning up the mess." Thanks for the laugh.

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Are you seriously going to pretend that the Alito flag story didn’t happen?

She wasn't responsible for that. Fred Ryan, chief of staff for Ronald Reagan (R), was responsible for that. FYI.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
NYT News started veering left in 2016. They killed or throttled stories that didn't fit the narrative. Covid lab leak, Hunter Biden laptop, anything negative on Ukraine, etc. while running Trump 24/7 to drive engagement. OpEd page was cleaned of any "incorrect" voices at the same time. Your assertion that Bari Weiss "deserved" to lose her job kind of gives you away, just so you know.

Bari Weiss?

Nice job giving the game away, MAGAturd

Sure. Anything moderate or not progressive is immediately MAGA. You Turd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure. Anything moderate or not progressive is immediately MAGA. You Turd.

Won't someone think of the rich pampered conservatives? There aren't enough of them represented in comfy jobs at elite news outlets.

[Anonymous]

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Are you seriously going to pretend that the Alito flag story didn’t happen?

She wasn't responsible for that. Fred Ryan, chief of staff for Ronald Reagan (R), was responsible for that. FYI.

No, sorry, this is completely false — Fred Ryan was the publisher, and he had nothing to do with decisions about whether Alito's flag was or wasn't going to be covered. Allegedly, the former managing editor Cameron Barr made that call, and Marty Baron, Buzbee's predecessor, didn't even know about it.

[Anonymous]

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Hats off to Buzbee. Management does not tell the newsroom to quash stories.

Completely agree. Lewis is a scumbag. These are dark days ahead for the Post.

Yeh he has that entitled dirtbag louche look in the NYT pic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
What’s ironic is that it was a Black woman that had to clean up the mess at the local WAMU affiliate and they complained all the same and even tried to leak damaging stories about her to ruin her reputation. The local journalists were less respectful of her than how they are now with the white male Post management team.

Yeah, firing half the WAMU newsroom in a "pivot to audio" is "cleaning up the mess." Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks for proving my point both in the viciousness and ridiculousness. The fact that you criticize a radio station deciding “pivot to audio” is all that needs to be said.

It seems like the only reason why you want the Post to hire diversity in management is because it looks like you’re more comfortable attacking them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What’s ironic is that it was a Black woman that had to clean up the mess at the local WAMU affiliate and they complained all the same and even tried to leak damaging stories about her to ruin her reputation. The local journalists were less respectful of her than how they are now with the white male Post management team.

Yeah, firing half the WAMU newsroom in a "pivot to audio" is "cleaning up the mess." Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks for proving my point both in the viciousness and ridiculousness. The fact that you criticize a radio station deciding “pivot to audio” is all that needs to be said.

It seems like the only reason why you want the Post to hire diversity in management is because it looks like you’re more comfortable attacking them.

The Post's newsroom seems perfectly comfortable attacking its current management: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/06/post-publisher-draws-more-scrutiny-after-newsroom-shakeup/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
What’s ironic is that it was a Black woman that had to clean up the mess at the local WAMU affiliate and they complained all the same and even tried to leak damaging stories about her to ruin her reputation. The local journalists were less respectful of her than how they are now with the white male Post management team.

Yeah, firing half the WAMU newsroom in a "pivot to audio" is "cleaning up the mess." Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks for proving my point both in the viciousness and ridiculousness. The fact that you criticize a radio station deciding “pivot to audio” is all that needs to be said.

It seems like the only reason why you want the Post to hire diversity in management is because it looks like you’re more comfortable attacking them.

The Post's newsroom seems perfectly comfortable attacking its current management: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/06/post-publisher-draws-more-scrutiny-after-newsroom-shakeup/

How pompous and out of touch can staff be to think their internal company politics should be front page news.

[Anonymous]

I am a WaPo subscriber. I recently signed up for discount subscription to the WSJ. I really love it. I turn to the WSJ for more balanced reporting. Now considering getting rid of WaPO.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
What’s ironic is that it was a Black woman that had to clean up the mess at the local WAMU affiliate and they complained all the same and even tried to leak damaging stories about her to ruin her reputation. The local journalists were less respectful of her than how they are now with the white male Post management team.

They need to get really good at writing articles about how awesome Amazon is.

Yeah, firing half the WAMU newsroom in a "pivot to audio" is "cleaning up the mess." Thanks for the laugh.

Thanks for proving my point both in the viciousness and ridiculousness. The fact that you criticize a radio station deciding “pivot to audio” is all that needs to be said.

It seems like the only reason why you want the Post to hire diversity in management is because it looks like you’re more comfortable attacking them.

The Post's newsroom seems perfectly comfortable attacking its current management: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/06/06/post-publisher-draws-more-scrutiny-after-newsroom-shakeup/

How pompous and out of touch can staff be to think their internal company politics should be front page news.

[Anonymous]

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New publisher seems like quite the pr*ck.