With WaPo’s demise, what other sources of DC metro news coverage?

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Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that all these people are canceling their subscriptions to the Post to protest Bezos, but those same people would never ever cancel their subscription to Amazon. Bezos doesn't make a dime from the Post. It's been losing money for years.

Cancel your subscription to Amazon, p*ssies. Don't take it out on the reporters who are just trying to tell you what is happening in your world.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey geniuses Trump wants you to cancel your subscriptions to the Post. He HATES the Post, and would love for it to go out of business. There would be a lot fewer ICE stories, for example, which would be great for him. It seems very weird people are canceling their subscriptions because something something Trump.

Meh. Bezos is already sufficiently undermined the Post to do Trump’s bidding. Damage has been done. I’m not going to keep my subscription as a means to “stick it to Trump.” To the contrary, at this point keeping the subscription is endorsing Bezos’s spinelessness. No thank you.

[Anonymous]

Welcome to Magadonia where there is state news only and lies and or propaganda to keep the cult base stupids in line

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that all these people are canceling their subscriptions to the Post to protest Bezos, but those same people would never ever cancel their subscription to Amazon. Bezos doesn't make a dime from the Post. It's been losing money for years.

Cancel your subscription to Amazon, p*ssies. Don't take it out on the reporters who are just trying to tell you what is happening in your world.

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We can do two things at once. I’ve canceled Amazon Prime, haven’t ordered from Amazon for almost a year now, and, also, cancelling my Post subscription. The Post doesn’t value what I value from a paper and while I care about their journalists, I suspect many who are still there will either leave soon or get onboard with Bezos’s Trump friendly agenda. The Editorial Board sure has.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that all these people are canceling their subscriptions to the Post to protest Bezos, but those same people would never ever cancel their subscription to Amazon. Bezos doesn't make a dime from the Post. It's been losing money for years.

Cancel your subscription to Amazon, p*ssies. Don't take it out on the reporters who are just trying to tell you what is happening in your world.

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We can do two things at once. I’ve canceled Amazon Prime, haven’t ordered from Amazon for almost a year now, and, also, cancelling my Post subscription. The Post doesn’t value what I value from a paper and while I care about their journalists, I suspect many who are still there will either leave soon or get onboard with Bezos’s Trump friendly agenda. The Editorial Board sure has.

You know the editorial page has nothing to do with the rest of the paper, right? They're completely separate entities. That's how it is at every major newspaper in this country.

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Anonymous wrote:Love these people who claim to care about politics and public policy but won't subscribe to the Post. Apparently you don't care that much!

I’m the OP. These days, and particularly now, are other papers that offer as good if not better coverage than the Post regarding politics and public policy. That’s a shame because the Post used to be a journalistic leader in those spaces. Bezos had driven it into the ground and as one PP noted, their editorial board is clearly influenced by Bezos’s interests these days. I kept my subscription for the reasons I stated initially, but these latest layoffs show me that metro DC coverage is not a priority.

The reason they're cutting metro is because people are canceling their subscriptions. It's not that they don't want to cover local news. They do, but they don't have the money now because everything thinks they're sticking it to Bezos by cancelling their subscriptions. So you're creating the problem that you're complaining about.

[Anonymous]

I get my local news from neighborhood blogs.

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I'm a little surprised how critical people are about the Post's recent news. The opinion/editorial board is absolute garbage now, but the actual stories continue to be pretty good. They've done a great job covering ICE and a decent job covering the other government ineptitude and ridiculous things going on. (Their science coverage has never been good.)
I'm afraid if everyone covers no one will cover that stuff. The NYTimes has not been nearly as critical of the administration in its actual news coverage as teh Post has.

A week or so ago, the Post ran a whole article that was just summarizing the SNL episode making fun of Trump. It was not news, but it was also NOT Trump-friendly. I was very surprised that no one yanked that article. I htought it was the journalists basically thinking "I can't mock Trump myself, but I can report on SNL mocking him, as if it's entertainment news." Clever.

In general, I agree with PP's that said that cancelling your WP subscription does not hurt Bezos, and probably helps Trump, but does undermine the long term viability of what has been one of the important papers in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love these people who cancel their subscription to the Post, and then want to know what they can read instead. This is like burning down the Smithsonian museums and then being like "what other museums in DC can I go to instead?"

For free

[Anonymous]

The Kojo Nnamdi show has great local politics coverage. As does WAMU. Not as comprehensive as the Post, but still something.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that all these people are canceling their subscriptions to the Post to protest Bezos, but those same people would never ever cancel their subscription to Amazon. Bezos doesn't make a dime from the Post. It's been losing money for years.

Cancel your subscription to Amazon, p*ssies. Don't take it out on the reporters who are just trying to tell you what is happening in your world.

+1

We can do two things at once. I’ve canceled Amazon Prime, haven’t ordered from Amazon for almost a year now, and, also, cancelling my Post subscription. The Post doesn’t value what I value from a paper and while I care about their journalists, I suspect many who are still there will either leave soon or get onboard with Bezos’s Trump friendly agenda. The Editorial Board sure has.

You know the editorial page has nothing to do with the rest of the paper, right? They're completely separate entities. That's how it is at every major newspaper in this country.

Separate, sure. But the editorial page absolutely influences, infiltrates, and controls the reporting. The readers know it and the reporters know it.

[Anonymous]

I' never read about sports and I don't read book reviews. I won't miss them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's hilarious that all these people are canceling their subscriptions to the Post to protest Bezos, but those same people would never ever cancel their subscription to Amazon. Bezos doesn't make a dime from the Post. It's been losing money for years.

Cancel your subscription to Amazon, p*ssies. Don't take it out on the reporters who are just trying to tell you what is happening in your world.

+1

We can do two things at once. I’ve canceled Amazon Prime, haven’t ordered from Amazon for almost a year now, and, also, cancelling my Post subscription. The Post doesn’t value what I value from a paper and while I care about their journalists, I suspect many who are still there will either leave soon or get onboard with Bezos’s Trump friendly agenda. The Editorial Board sure has.

You know the editorial page has nothing to do with the rest of the paper, right? They're completely separate entities. That's how it is at every major newspaper in this country.

Separate, sure. But the editorial page absolutely influences, infiltrates, and controls the reporting. The readers know it and the reporters know it.

That's hilariously wrong. Time to take the tin foil hat off.

[Anonymous]

Subscribe to ProPublica and other orgs so they can hire the former WaPo reporters who left Jeff Bezos' propaganda rag

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love these people who cancel their subscription to the Post, and then want to know what they can read instead. This is like burning down the Smithsonian museums and then being like "what other museums in DC can I go to instead?"

Nah. It’s like going to the Smithsonian and seeing that history is being re-written, altered, and falsified (sound familiar?) and deciding that you just can’t support that approach. Hopefully, both institutions return to their roots.