“We are deeply alarmed by recent leadership decisions that have led readers to question the integrity of this institution, broken with a tradition of transparency, and prompted some of our most distinguished colleagues to leave, with more departures imminent,” the letter reads.
Journalists became decreasingly viewed as objective, disinterested seekers of facts whose job was to create an informed citizenry, and increasingly viewed as social justice warriors whose job was to directly manipulate the world according to their political beliefs. The very existence of truth and objectivity was called into question as postmodernism seeped into every pore.
The problem is that, while there will always be a market for the first product, any idiot can offer the second, and many will do it for free.
What an amazing admission of their hardcore, extreme, far-left, bias. They don’t even pretend objectivity anymore.
It would be so awesome if he showed up to the meeting and said “I’m selling it to Elon. Good luck.”.
Elon will only buy if there is a government subsidy. Did anyone ever look real hard at Tesla?
Was there a government subsidy when he bought Twitter.
The money came from Tesla subsidies.
Is anyone going to look hard at “First Responders” … who are utterly non-responsive … collecting $450k +/yr of the taxpayers largesse? We are being LOOTED by 100’s of thousands of Public UNIONISTAS
Holier-than-thou first responders, and military, get their status from the few on the front lines.
Many of both groups are a waste of space.
Leftists get kickbacks and power from first responder unions, the military they just want to destroy.
Should absolutely publish their salaries any time government spends taxed or borrowed money.
The job of reporters and so called journalists is to sell advertising. It has nothing to do with truthful reporting.
Ratings are most important to these news pedaling companies. Stories (headlines) that capture more eyeballs provide an avenue to higher advertising prices. Higher ratings means they have more eyeballs on their product and thus they can charge more for advertising space. It would be interesting to compare what has happened to ad prices for the the Washington Post, MSNBC and the others pre and post election.
Yes! Remember William Randolph Hearst who owned so many newspapers in the United States from the late 1880’s. His editorials forced the American government to invade Cuba in the 1890’s and Theodore Roosevelt was one of the Army officers (if my memory of history is correct – if I am wrong, please correct me!) Even in the 1930’s, there were many newspapers and magazines who thought that Mussolini in Italy and Hitler in Germany were just “peachy keen”!
When I read newspapers, magazines, articles on line, I do so with a large dollop of skepticism!
There were also the NY Time’s propanda pieces about the USSR and the denial of the Holodomor, courtesy of “reporter” Walter Duranty
Newspapers, and press in general are a popularity contest (not in a personal sense, but in a credibility sense). If you take on an agenda, or a favoritism in political ideology, you immediately alienate a large portion of your readership. You dilute that credibility and devalue your worth. That’s why objective news reporting is so important. It was initially meant to be a checks and balances operation that held the representative government accountable for their choices, words, actions. It was provided the lynchpin of the “First Amendment” so as to allow accurate reporting on all inclusive of those who held power without repercussion for truths.
However, the modern press has so bastardized that original necessity, that their value has deflated and their credibility has cratered. They are no longer the original intended instrument of accountability.
Which brings us to the Washington Post. The employees there (or, at least 400 of them) don’t understand the concept of leverage, or “repercussions.” They have no leverage exactly BECAUSE of the repercussions resulting from their past and continuing actions. By editorializing everything (inclusive of hard news items) to reflect their own political ideology, they have miniaturized the potential consumer base of their product. They have done this with such vigor, that any chance to reclaim credibility is out of reach. Bezos is an ass, but he’s not stupid. He’ll sell the Washington Post, Re-brand it, or just let it disappear. He won’t continue down the same self-destructive road. He could afford to let it ride financially, but his reputation would take a hit, which if you know Bezos, that’s the more damaging path.
Couldn’t the WaPo writers go work for a new paper published by the Dem Party?
The could call it The Truth.
It would be paid for by the same people who gave $2.5 billion to the Harris campaign and Dem PACs.
Adam Schiff could be Editorus Illuminati
Yes, and to balance that they could have a second paper and call it “The News.”
“distinguished colleagues”
So a worm wriggles into this pub, and he greets a slug slithering up to the bar …
It’s evident the “skools of journalism” have yet to differentiate between fact and opinion.
Rats walking the plank. How helpful 🙂
Threaten: If Bezos doesn’t do what they want, they’ll all quit.
Bezos: “Go ahead. Make my day.”
If you beat the shit out of a journalist they’d just make more.
“Famed cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested for ‘AI child pornography’ as Pulitzer winner found with ‘over 100 sick videos’
He had previously made comments about “taking away children’s innocence”
Forrest McFarland, Senior News Reporter
Published: 9:19 ET, Jan 16 2025″
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13309363/darrin-bell-arrested-cartoon-pulitzer-prize-winner/
He is a loyal Pizzagate denier.
https://x.com/lizcrokin/status/1879998415905472627
Well, bye.
For “open communication” substitute “open Communism”.
These clowns probably think they can’t be replaced. And I laughed and I laughed and I laughed.