Democracy Dies in Darkness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please comment on Jeff Bezos' article in WaPo!

He has a drivel of an article which doesn't actually explain why he changed long-standing endorsement tradition at the last minute before a consequential election.

Gift article:
https://wapo.st/3NKRzHc

Just did. It's a great response. He's not wrong -- media should not endorse candidates.

[Anonymous]

This is what it feels like when the pendulum starts coming back.

[Anonymous]

WaPo was already leagues behind the NYT and Wall St Journal when Bezos bought the paper. If you were reading it, you were reading a milquetoast liberal version of the National Enquirer. Besides some of their reporting on Afghanistan and the Snowden files that paper has been middlebrow trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Post was already losing hundreds of millions of dollars. Being a liberal darling ended up being really bad for the paper financially.

I’m sure Bezos wouldn’t mind losing the MSNBC crowd as a core subscriber base, along with any journalist who would quit in protest. The fact that so many journalists that are obviously ideologically committed left wing liberals have not quit says everything there is to know.

It wasn’t “hundreds of millions” rather “tens of millions” and it was related to rapid expansion, not “being a liberal darling.”

Moron.

[Anonymous]

Bravo to Bezos. Part of his real challenge is that most of the reporters are young, Ivy or coastal educated progressives. They’ve been indoctrinated their entire lives into the progressive ideology. They literally have no idea how the other 50% of this country lives or thinks. The result has been a decade of predictable, unreadable pablum. Hopefully he targets graduates from the rural parts of this country in order to bring diverse voices to his paper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo’s political reporting already amounts to a daily endorsement of Harris.

Seriously. How dare they quote things Trump says accurately! That’s unfair!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo’s political reporting already amounts to a daily endorsement of Harris.

Seriously. How dare they quote things Trump says accurately! That’s unfair!!!

The truth is liberal bias!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:WaPo was already leagues behind the NYT and Wall St Journal when Bezos bought the paper. If you were reading it, you were reading a milquetoast liberal version of the National Enquirer. Besides some of their reporting on Afghanistan and the Snowden files that paper has been middlebrow trash.

The Washington Post is still our local paper of record. Even as they have shrunk the Metro section to mostly filler content. Unlike the NYTimes, WSJ, FT, Globe, the print edition is no longer premium, and now sadly treated as an afterthought. The Boston Globe has actually overtaken the Post.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it possible he thinks she’s an idiot and not worthy of an endorsement?

Even if that were remotely possible instead of a maga talking point, it wouldn’t matter. He promised he wouldn’t interfere with editorial decisions when he bought the paper. And he interfered and substituted his whims (and economic interests) for professional journalists.

I hear you. But the paper was hemorrhaging subscribers before he got there because of bad editorial decisions and biased reporting. And he’s given the reporters a long leash since he bought it. But at the end of the day he needs to keep the paper economically viable.

Does he? Why does he need to do that? It lost $100 million a couple of years ago. He's worth $200 billion. He could afford to subsidize those kinds of losses for a long, long time.

You don’t make $200B by making bad business decisions.

No, but apparently once you get rich, you start making bad business decisions: He bought a newspaper in 2013.

The newspaper is small potatoes. He spent 80 Billion dollars to get his penis wet by Lauren Sanchez.
Mackenzie is giving a third of his wealth to charity, which to Bezos is the worst thing in the world.

[Anonymous]

Bezos’s response is so weak. The arguments are weak. He blames an administrative oversight for changing 40 years of practice 11 days before the election!? He says newspapers aren’t trusted without acknowledging the reason they aren’t trusted is because Trump has been calling the media the enemy of the people for years because they dare report on his criminal and questionable activities! He says no quid pro quo without getting into the more nuanced likelihood of trying to curry favor with Trump - equally bad but not technically a quid pro quo. A weak man, an unprincipled man and a bad writer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bravo to Bezos. Part of his real challenge is that most of the reporters are young, Ivy or coastal educated progressives. They’ve been indoctrinated their entire lives into the progressive ideology. They literally have no idea how the other 50% of this country lives or thinks. The result has been a decade of predictable, unreadable pablum. Hopefully he targets graduates from the rural parts of this country in order to bring diverse voices to his paper.

You think DEI is what WaPo needs to succeed? Maybe.

[Anonymous]

The masthead can't say democracy dies in darkness and then decide last minute that it isn't their job to endorse a candidate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bravo to Bezos. Part of his real challenge is that most of the reporters are young, Ivy or coastal educated progressives. They’ve been indoctrinated their entire lives into the progressive ideology. They literally have no idea how the other 50% of this country lives or thinks. The result has been a decade of predictable, unreadable pablum. Hopefully he targets graduates from the rural parts of this country in order to bring diverse voices to his paper.

Leaving aside the rest of your inaccurate stereotypes, less than 14% of the country lives in rural areas.

[Anonymous]

I agree with the Bezo decision. 50% of the country supports Trump. 50% of the country hates trump. The country is so divided right now, but the media should not be. Newspapers are suppose to offer facts. Yes, there is the opinion section but this should also offer a variety of different perspectives, not be a supporter of one party or one candidate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:WaPo was already leagues behind the NYT and Wall St Journal when Bezos bought the paper. If you were reading it, you were reading a milquetoast liberal version of the National Enquirer. Besides some of their reporting on Afghanistan and the Snowden files that paper has been middlebrow trash.

The Washington Post is still our local paper of record. Even as they have shrunk the Metro section to mostly filler content. Unlike the NYTimes, WSJ, FT, Globe, the print edition is no longer premium, and now sadly treated as an afterthought. The Boston Globe has actually overtaken the Post.

It was our local paper of record. Now the metro section is a joke and Washington City paper has far more robust coverage if your looking for a paper. If you want online, any of the local networks and WTOP have better local news coverage