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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The guy is no doubt a jerk.  [b]But is this now what passes as a front page story in the Washington Post on a Sunday? [/b] It’s like the Post had some insatiable appetite for culture war stories that they try to pump up anything that has the slightest whiff of racism or LGBTQ to it.  We’ve officially reached the point where demand for bigotry exceeds the supply of stories.  [/quote]

Yes, and for good reason. The dispute is impairing the town government's ability to function. If you don't think it's newsworthy, there's an easy solution: don't read the article. [/quote]

Maybe.  But that’s not the story the Post published.  The story they published is “rural bigot targets gay restaurant for no reason” type story.  When in reality the jerk frequented the restaurant himself on many occasions with apparently no one to putting his money in the gay couples pocket.   You’ve got to get about ten paragraphs in before it becomes the “impairing the town government” that you claim it is.  This headline is highly inflammatory and irresponsible and bears no relation to the story itself.  Is there any doubt that if a country western restaurant shared the same parking lot that the same issue would eventually rise with this hot head? Of course they would.  There is a reason the Post’s readership is in free fall and it’s in large part to irresponsible journalism such as this.  Seriously, this story on the front page of the Sunday Post.  [/quote]

The fact that the hateful religious fundamentalist family is targeting a gay couple is just a complete and total coincidence! Why does WaPo have to be so inflammatory?![/quote]

That’s the story that you and the Post desperately want.  But few if any actual facts to support that.  The guy hates the gay couple so much that he apparently spent thousands of dollars in the restaurant over several years. Wut?  Didn’t the media learn anything from the Jessie Smollett incident.  [/quote]

Have you been to The Plains or the Front Porch? I have a bunch of times. There aren’t many options and The Front Porch is one of the best.

And yes, he hates gays. He used the f word in reference to the owner. I don’t know how you get more direct than that. I don’t think that fact that the spent money at one of the only decent places to eat negates their hatred for the owners or self righteous attitude. [/quote]

He hates them so much that he’s been there 40+ times.  Yeah right.  He is the rare ultra conservative home schooler prepper who also just happen to love fine dining. C’mon people.  [b]If this was a Chic fil A restaurant he’d still be complaining about the trash and parking.[/b] That’s just who he is.  The Washington Post needs to do better.  [/quote]

But it wasn't a Chic-fil-A. It was The Front Porch, in The Plains, Virginia. This is a particular story about particular neighbors in a particular town in a particular state. Do you think the Washington Post should send reporters out to look for cases of neighbor disputes involving Chic-fil-As, in order to be fair and balanced?[/quote]

I don’t think neighborhood disputes belong on the front page of the newspaper of record in the capital of our country.  [/quote]

I don't think the Washington Post needs to worry about losing you as a reader, because it's clear that you were not a reader of the Washington Post to begin with.[/quote]

Maybe the Post should care about these kinds of one sided progressive creative writing hit pieces:

“The Post is on a pace to lose about $100 million in 2023, according to two people with knowledge of the company’s finances; two other people briefed on the situation said the company was expecting to miss its forecasts for ad revenue this year. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal financial matters. The Post has struggled to increase the number of its paying customers since the 2020 election, when its digital subscriptions peaked at three million. It now has around 2.5 million.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/business/media/jeff-bezos-washington-post.html?searchResultPosition=1
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