WaPo is your neighbor’s slow cousin’s blog. It’s non-stop woke nonsense. Gone are the days of the Bandwagon, Boswell and decent albeit left leaning reporting. Now it reads like a college newspaper. |
Even the sports columnists cannot help but show their left leaning biases. Srvluga, Blackistone - all awful. |
She is an absolute scumbag. |
She's horrific. I've felt a responsibility to support WaPo as the local newspaper, but I cannot stomach subscribing to any institution that would have her on staff. |
She cannot be relegated to the waste bin of history fast enough. Awful human being and a total fraud. |
You’re correct, they are not charities. I used to gladly pay for several. I did this not because of “democracy” but because I wanted real news, excellent writing, excellent analysis, and some storytelling. I’ve dropped all of my subscriptions over the past several years. Today’s 4,000-word (?) essay in the NYT by an actual staff editor about whether Taylor Swift is sending her coded clues about bisexuality is a perfect example of failing on all fronts — bad writing, bad thinking to the point of possible mental health delusion, bad editing. Pathetic and depressing. |
How about Phil Bump’s moronic piece on whenter white people have black friends. WTF. |
+1 And sexuality/gender/ethnicity, etc. I posted about this a few months ago on a different thread, but I noticed the difference between the WaPo and WSJ immediately. The WaPo deliberately weaves in race, gender, etc. issues to *every* article. They cannot just write a piece without making some sort of -ism the focus. The WSJ, on the other hand, will take a story about real estate, for example, and cite several couples. Tim and his husband David, or Jane and her partner Stella, for instance. (Or Sally and her husband Pete, etc. you get the point) That's the only reference to their sexuality. Just an intro to cover the basics. They never patronize their audience, they simply state the facts, interview a wide range of people, and get on with it. |
Sounds like something DCUM's finest would write a thread about. Scolding white people for not having any POC at their wedding, or some such nonsense. Meanwhile, it's a-ok for POC not to have any white people at their wedding. So predictably stupid. |
And yet, they still sell advertising space. If you can't break even selling ads AND charging for your product, you are doing something wrong. |
Taylor Swift writes all her lyrics. If you take every fifth word from any song and recite them backward, they summon one of the elder Gods. |
I saw a comment online about the 5k- word Taylor Swift sexuality fan fic fever dream essay in the NYT that said: I once thought being a writer or editor at the NYT was for the smartest and most talented. This person is right — it once was! Ditto the Post, etc. And they aren’t anymore. Those days have been gone for nearly two decades. The bananas Swift essay is the sort of reporting and writing (or the Post piece on the dishwashers, or the NPR piece on trans people in California’s wine industry, and a million more examples) is the wildly dumbed down and irrelevant journalism that’s everywhere. |
I subscribed for about 20 years. Most of that for the WaPo’s print copy. The local coverage is what ultimately made me cancel it. The education coverage in 2020 was so incredibly biased. It was just regurgitating whatever FCPS put out in a press release or just interviewing random people. Zero actual reporting that required any further work. And the rest of the local section was extremely thin. I was just too fed up after awhile to keep giving $.
I subscribe to the NYT now. I don’t expect local coverage (of course) from them so I’m not disappointed there is none. |
Compared to the BBC, DW, The NY Times, wsj, Etc. If the Post wants more people to pay, they need to put out a better product. I was a ten year subscriber until 4 months ago. I cancelled because I became unimpressed with reporting that made every story an editorial. I frankly felt insulted reading it. I love newspapers by the way (even though I recognize they are a dying industry). I now subscribe to the NYT and WSJ. |
A recent article about the rails-to-trails movement, accompanied by a color photo of --- wait for it -- the C&O Canal towpath! |