Wash Post—new editor from WSJ!?

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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.

So where's that "pivot to audio" that Erika said would happen? Where are the new WAMU reporters? Where are the backfilled positions, like the transportation reporter that they never backfilled? Where's the MD reporter? Nowhere. They haven't been filled and won't be filled. They might fill the DC reporter position, but they haven't and won't fill the other ones, because the "pivot to audio" was bullshit for idiots like you to lap up and repeat as dogma.

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New publisher seems like quite the pr*ck.

This is who the DCUM harpies want to run the Post, to turn it into the print version of Fox News. A shltbag who offers interviews in exchange for killing stories he doesn't like and interfering with his reporters reporting on him and airing his dirty laundry. What a loser.

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This is who the DCUM harpies want to run the Post, to turn it into the print version of Fox News. A shltbag who offers interviews in exchange for killing stories he doesn't like and interfering with his reporters reporting on him and airing his dirty laundry. What a loser.

Oh yeah, forgot, and then when he doesn't get what he wants, he smears a respected reporter as an "activist." What a tool.

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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.

So where's that "pivot to audio" that Erika said would happen? Where are the new WAMU reporters? Where are the backfilled positions, like the transportation reporter that they never backfilled? Where's the MD reporter? Nowhere. They haven't been filled and won't be filled. They might fill the DC reporter position, but they haven't and won't fill the other ones, because the "pivot to audio" was bullshit for idiots like you to lap up and repeat as dogma.

If you want these things donate the money for them. Money is a real constraint in the real world. You people live in a fantasy world that no one else wants to live in with you.

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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.

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.

The New York Times sent push alerts on stories about the Post's internal company politics on two consecutive days this week (so far), I don't think it's crazy for the Post to also write about it. Especially since the stories dealt with the publisher trying to get the paper not to write about him.

You’re just proving that journalism is a broken profession.

If the Post’s internal mess isn’t of any public interest, why is there a long discussion of it still going on here? Seems like people are curious about it.

You’re kidding right? It’s a bunch of journalists complaining and literally everyone else telling you to zip it.

Nah, not a journalist, a now ex-subscriber. Brit in the family who saw the shi$ this cretin stirred up across the pond.

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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.

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.

The New York Times sent push alerts on stories about the Post's internal company politics on two consecutive days this week (so far), I don't think it's crazy for the Post to also write about it. Especially since the stories dealt with the publisher trying to get the paper not to write about him.

You’re just proving that journalism is a broken profession.

If the Post’s internal mess isn’t of any public interest, why is there a long discussion of it still going on here? Seems like people are curious about it.

You’re kidding right? It’s a bunch of journalists complaining and literally everyone else telling you to zip it.

Nah, not a journalist, a now ex-subscriber. Brit in the family who saw the shi$ this cretin stirred up across the pond.

I don’t care what he did or didn’t do in the UK. But my understanding is that he may have used or endorsed or knew about unethical practices used to get facts to report on. If true, that’s actual fact based reporting, even if it’s unethical, which would be an improvement for the standards of journalism at the Post where currently standards are very low and the journalists think their jobs are to promote causes that they care about without concern for their audience or news value.

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I’m old enough to remember reading the Post in the 90s. That was a good paper. Not just news, but style, sports, metro, opinion, even the magazine with that really good dining critic.

Today’s Post is nothing like that. If Bezos wants to blow it up with a bomb thrower editor in chief, go for it. So many papers have been lost to mediocrity. Let’s see if he can salvage this thing. Can’t be worse. The trajectory for the Post has been spiraling for a long time

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I don’t care what he did or didn’t do in the UK. But my understanding is that he may have used or endorsed or knew about unethical practices used to get facts to report on. If true, that’s actual fact based reporting, even if it’s unethical, which would be an improvement for the standards of journalism at the Post where currently standards are very low and the journalists think their jobs are to promote causes that they care about without concern for their audience or news value.

This is total madness. Will Fuller is a scumbag. US journalists have actual integrity, ethics and standards to live up by. Including not hacking into the private communications of murdered children and dead British soldiers in pursuit of trivial celebrity news stories. Read the Wikipedia entry for yourself. Ethical US journalists would never pull this crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal

Employees of the now-defunct newspaper News of the World engaged in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories.

Investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 showed that the paper's phone hacking activities were targeted at celebrities, politicians, and members of the British royal family. In July 2011 it was revealed that the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, relatives of deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner, Rupert Murdoch, led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the News of the World on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication.[1] Public pressure forced News Corporation to cancel its proposed takeover of the British satellite broadcaster BSkyB.

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If you want these things donate the money for them. Money is a real constraint in the real world. You people live in a fantasy world that no one else wants to live in with you.[/quote

Apparently strong news divisions falling apart because of terminal mismanagement is OK to you as long as it fits your world view

[Anonymous]

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Apparently strong news divisions falling apart because of terminal mismanagement is OK to you as long as it fits your world view

You don’t understand the business model for public radio, which is hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m old enough to remember reading the Post in the 90s. That was a good paper. Not just news, but style, sports, metro, opinion, even the magazine with that really good dining critic.

Today’s Post is nothing like that. If Bezos wants to blow it up with a bomb thrower editor in chief, go for it. So many papers have been lost to mediocrity. Let’s see if he can salvage this thing. Can’t be worse. The trajectory for the Post has been spiraling for a long time

Exactly. Situation is so bad that throwing up a hail mary is worth it.

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Maybe he’s what sinks the ship? Maybe they want the Post gone? Hire him to ruin it.

[Anonymous]

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.

hahaha! that's hilarious. Good lucking getting any reliable coverage there! hahah

[Anonymous]

The problem with the Washington Post is easy to diagnose.

They are getting their butts handdd to them by Politico because the journalists and editors are only motivated to do hard hitting pieces about the new management team. No one even expects that they would ever publish an important and newsworthy story like this and they should reflect on that.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/08/joe-biden-aides-family-business-dealings-00161476

[Anonymous]

That was a really interesting article. Found it very noteworthy that biden's doctor is such a close family friend. I really think Biden needs a cognitive assessment done by another doctor who specializes in geriatric medicine. It would be hard for somebody so close to him to be objective on assessing his cognitive state.