Everyone is gone at the Washington Post... Almost no Metro section left...

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Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

Multiple posters. Glad she’ll have one less platform.

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The Post became unreadable around Covid. It was all scolding, Trump=bad, and glib sermonizing. I got it for local news and sports, but they clearly pivoted to the national organ for the “resistance” or whatever. Taylor Lorenz was just the cherry on top.

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Anonymous wrote:Good. Let that rag die.

This. It used to be a respected paper. Now it’s just regurgitated woke punch lines.

Whatever. You clearly never read it before.

DP. I grew up reading the WaPo. I read it every day until about two years ago, when we finally realized how utterly biased and absurd it is, at which point we canceled our subscription. The PP is correct. There is nothing serious or respectable about the WaPo any longer and it's been that way for some time.

I don't think the Post changed. I think you changed. And obviously I don't know anything about you personally, but everyone I know personally who has this opinion used to read the Washington Post but now watches a lot of Fox.

Not the PP you replied to, but Fox is biased the other way. It's possible to recognize different types of bias in various places, PP! I think it's worthwhile to check in on all news sources regularly to monitor the level of bias, and general nonsense various reporters are feeding the unwary public. Then you're less surprised when people believe Trump won the 2020 election, or when others want to defund the police or turn a blind eye to juvenile crime, both of which are untenable positions, and yet, some people still cling to them. The reporters that push these unbaked ideas are partially to blame, but the larger issue is that people insist on living in their little echo chambers with no critical thinking whatsoever.

So read all the news. You might surprise yourself. As a lefty, I recognize for example that we need more border control. Not because "immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country"; but because we can better serve these very courageous and competent people (you need both plus luck to survive the trek they made), who will definitely improve our nation's dynamism and gene pool with their can-do attitudes, if we control their entry, which then means we can shuttle them where employers need them, and we can reduce their number traipsing across people's lawns at the southern border.

This false equivalency is really lazy.

The Washington Post is not "biased" because Fox is biased "the other way."

It's less an issue of bias than it is credibility. Fox News isn't particularly credible since it doesn't apply the same journalistic standards (i.e. requiring multiple sources before reporting things, etc). This all came out in the Dominion suit just how shoddy their journalism practices are. Fox is propaganda press -- that doesn't mean conversely that the professional news media is the same, just in a different ideological direction. It may SEEM that way to rabid consumers of Fox News because they don't actually recognize the output from legitimate news organizations (or that it doesn't validate their biases or what they think constitutes "news").

The good news is Fox is barely watched. The network news and newspapers run laps around Fox's audience. Dwarfs it.

The issue is LOCAL news. And that's going away everywhere, and it's not good for society. THat leads to more political corruption, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when the Metro section of the Post was so robust, you went there first! When Jeff Bezos bought the paper everyone was so excited because he made major investments. My friends at the Post were thrilled too.

It seems those days are over. 240 reporters left in 2023 with most coming from the Metro desk including Darryl Fears, Paula Dvorak and Courtland Malloy.

That was really the only reason I subscribed. Now, I can cancel my $18 per month and just read it through Apple News. It's not worth it to me anymore.

I was already getting more through DC City Cast, Washington City Paper and DCist. I'll give to those publications.

Thanks Jeff Bezos.

This isn't correct -- 240 people, total, took buyouts, with half in the business side and half in editorial, so 120 from the newsroom. Of the newsroom total, most were from the copy desk. Metro had a large number of departures, but not most. The newsroom staff now is about the same level as it was at the end of 2021, for context.

$18 per month seems like a lot regardless -- you can get a digital-only subscription for $29 a year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

Multiple posters. Glad she’ll have one less platform.

Nice try. Lovely parting gifts for you off stage, etc. We know you're one person. You literally say the same thing every time her name comes up in these forums. I've seen it for years. It's like you have an obsession. It's weird.

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The Post became unreadable around Covid. It was all scolding, Trump=bad, and glib sermonizing. I got it for local news and sports, but they clearly pivoted to the national organ for the “resistance” or whatever. Taylor Lorenz was just the cherry on top.

The Post has gotten weird and ideologically all over the place. There was that series of articles trying to legitimize polyamory and the intense focus on trans issues, but then the conscious attempts to undermine Biden and promote Republican candidates (e.g., the articles scrutinizing Biden's brother's non-involvement in a 1990s bribery case and Biden's receipt of a golf club membership 20 years ago, followed by breathless reporting on how Nikki Haley left government to take a series of high paying jobs and provide for her family, then that flawed "both sides-ism" article about how both Biden and Trump have "doom and gloom" messages). Not to mention George Will's piece yesterday characterizing Biden as a dictator. I have been reading the Post since I moved here for law school 25 years ago, consider myself a centrist (have voted for reasonable candidates of both parties), and genuinely don't get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when the Metro section of the Post was so robust, you went there first! When Jeff Bezos bought the paper everyone was so excited because he made major investments. My friends at the Post were thrilled too.

It seems those days are over. 240 reporters left in 2023 with most coming from the Metro desk including Darryl Fears, Paula Dvorak and Courtland Malloy.

That was really the only reason I subscribed. Now, I can cancel my $18 per month and just read it through Apple News. It's not worth it to me anymore.

I was already getting more through DC City Cast, Washington City Paper and DCist. I'll give to those publications.

Thanks Jeff Bezos.

City Paper is barely staying afloat, and I've heard rumors that its on its last legs. DCist just laid off at least one reporter (Collen Grablick) and is barely getting by. Neither should be considered reliable news outlets, anyway. They just regurgitate whatever Charles Allen and Brianne Nadeau tell them to report (as evidenced by the WCP's proven Nadeau-supplied attacks on one of her opponents in the last primary). Anyone who relies solely on them will be hilariously ill-informed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

I'm a DP- Jeff can confirm, but personally I find her so abhorrent that I wouldn't mind it if her car fell off a bridge. She is everything that is wrong with the left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

I'm a DP- Jeff can confirm, but personally I find her so abhorrent that I wouldn't mind it if her car fell off a bridge. She is everything that is wrong with the left.

Oh, so you have THAT particular character defect.

You're quite the binary thinker, probably. Can't recognize nuance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I remember when the Metro section of the Post was so robust, you went there first! When Jeff Bezos bought the paper everyone was so excited because he made major investments. My friends at the Post were thrilled too.

It seems those days are over. 240 reporters left in 2023 with most coming from the Metro desk including Darryl Fears, Paula Dvorak and Courtland Malloy.

That was really the only reason I subscribed. Now, I can cancel my $18 per month and just read it through Apple News. It's not worth it to me anymore.

I was already getting more through DC City Cast, Washington City Paper and DCist. I'll give to those publications.

Thanks Jeff Bezos.

Paula Dvorak was terrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Post became unreadable around Covid. It was all scolding, Trump=bad, and glib sermonizing. I got it for local news and sports, but they clearly pivoted to the national organ for the “resistance” or whatever. Taylor Lorenz was just the cherry on top.

Is that when they started that "Democracy Dies in Darkness" nonsense?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

I'm a DP- Jeff can confirm, but personally I find her so abhorrent that I wouldn't mind it if her car fell off a bridge. She is everything that is wrong with the left.

Oh, so you have THAT particular character defect.

You're quite the binary thinker, probably. Can't recognize nuance.

She lives in a 2 Million dollar house. She is by definition a limo liberal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree but honestly Paula Dvorvak was pretty awful.

You are sock puppeting now?

We get it. You don’t like her. You say this every time her name comes up in these forums and it’s quite tiresome.

I'm a DP- Jeff can confirm, but personally I find her so abhorrent that I wouldn't mind it if her car fell off a bridge. She is everything that is wrong with the left.

Oh, so you have THAT particular character defect.

You're quite the binary thinker, probably. Can't recognize nuance.

She lives in a 2 Million dollar house. She is by definition a limo liberal

She drives herself everywhere, and not in a limousine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good. Let that rag die.

This. It used to be a respected paper. Now it’s just regurgitated woke punch lines.

100%. It needs to die. It used to be worth it but it's a far cry from that now.

I am really curious when you thought it was good because it used to be much more liberal. Have you been in DC long or are you another carpetbagger trying to bring your obnoxious and ridiculous beliefs to DC?

That is such a nativist and small town thing to say 😂🤣. "Go back were you came from!"

[Anonymous]

I don’t love the post but the demise of newspapers and reporters overall is a serious issue for accountability and transparency. I think this is the biggest failure of googles supposed ‘don’t be evil’ mantra in their undermining of news content in our society by essentially devaluing it. I think we should follow Canada’s lead and require them to pay for news that they cite and not spread dangerous false stories.