The price paid for catering to a narrow liberal audience: WaPo Loses 200,000 Subscribers
And now, a message from their sponsor.
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election. No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias. A perception of non-independence. Ending them is a principled decision, and it’s the right one.
Odd that he chose voting machines as analogy.
(And don’t miss the liberal rage in the comments)
If 200k leftists fall on themselves in a forest … do they make a damn difference? We know the sound they make … and it hurts our ears … but as always … who cares?
Do they have any readers left, that aren’t left?
How many staff quit the Washington Post?
Might be a cheap way to reduce staff?
And since the left is being “politically correct”, isn’t the abbreviation WaPo an insult to Italians?
Yes i know its “wops”, but the snotty accent of the Washington crowd would pronounce it more like wapo.
Given the rate at which WaPo is hemorrhaging money, I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezos has a Musk move planned.
A “Musk move”? Is that some kind of skunk reference? Doesn’t Pepe Le Pew make Musk moves?
A couple rounds of decimation might be in order.
Bezos ain’t going conservative any time soon.
I worked at the socialist utopia known as amazon.
The common employees were regularly f⁰rced to parade around the warehouse like north Koreans while someone from corporate filmed a video to send to Dear Leader.
Those not smiling convincingly would find themselves stalked by the “safety” department until a minor infraction was committed and they could be fired.
Who gives a rat’s ass?
And who should care about what Bezos is thinking, the retarded, cast-eyed loser.
// The price paid for catering to a narrow liberal audience: WaPo Loses 200,000 Subscribers //
Now catering to an audience of ONE:
There was an “editorial” meeting:
Bezos faces criticism after executives met with Trump on day of Post’s non-endorsement Guardian
[…] “Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do – and then met with the Blue Origin people,”
Kagan told the Daily Beast on Saturday.
“Which tells us that there was an actual deal made, meaning that Bezos communicated, or through his people,
communicated directly with Trump, and they set up this quid pro quo.” […]
washington-post-non-endorsement-election
For Bezos, the Washington Post is a vanity project, a good bit of PR [gone now] for his real businesses.
I once walked into a record store in England, and they had Status Quo CDs in the bargain bin for one pound. Now that’s what I call quid pro Quo…
@%!!&#
Yawn.
Lying as a business model has a limited and unprofitable lifespan.
We’re probably 30 minutes from liberal nutjobs treating the Washington Post as they would a Catholic church.
Of course I trust the media. Today I learned the Nazis had a shingding in Madison Square Garden in 1939. And yesterday Trump had one too!!!!! Conclusive proof he’s a Nazi!!!
But seriously, that was a new low. For this week at least.
Yes but in 1939 there wasn’t a famine in Ukraine according to the award winning NY Times at the time. So they must be trustworthy.
There was also a Democrat convention in MSG in 1924, that is called the Klanbake, due to the huge presence of the KKK. 1924 is a lot closer to 1939, as are the ideologies.
Great moments in MSM self-awareness: “We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement.”
It never occurs to these progtard propagandists that they’re failing on the second because they’ve deliberately kneecapped themselves on the first. They think the problem is that they’re serving warm, delicious, carefully prepared truth, and the proles, for some inexplicable reason (probably stupidity), are refusing to swallow it.
Is that that really the problem, you paragons of journalistic virtue? Millions of brainwashed mouth-breathing flyover CHUDs are just too inbred and brain-dead to recognize good, quality journalism when it’s fed to them? Or is it maybe that the MSM has become a cesspit of leftard propaganda that gleefully lies, and sucks up to liars, and serves as the vector for globalist agendas and Deep State maskirovka-cum-treason, and happily amplifies every grotesque socialist and tyrannical cause no matter how appalling…and the CHUDs have simply wised up because they know BS when they smell it?
MSM: “Bidenomics is working! That’s the truth!”
CHUDs: “Ummm…the price of gas and eggs has tripled and I can’t afford bread…”
MSM: “Your BBQ is killing the planet! That’s the truth!”
CHUDs: “Ummm…you said all the Arctic ice would be gone by 2012 and snow would be a thing of the past, and none of that’s happened…”
MSM: “Taking the VAXXXXX will stop the spread of Covid, and if you don’t take it the world will end! Truth!”
CHUDs: “Ummm…it didn’t stop anything, and it didn’t end.”
MSM: “There are 27 genders, men can menstruate, and transwomen are women! TRUTH!!!”
CHUDs: “Ummm…no there aren’t, no they can’t, and no they’re not.”
MSM: “Islam is a Religion’o’Peace(tm)! TROOOOOTH!!!”
CHUDs: “Have you LOOKED at the world? Like, ever?”
MSM: “Joe Biden is as sharp as a tack! ITSSSS THE TROOOOOOTTTTHHHHHH!!!”
CHUDs: (Watching any press conference from the past 4 years) “Ummm…”
MSM: “Kamala Harris will ‘turn the page’ and fix all the problems of the past four years! TROOTH! TROOOOOTTH!!!”
CHUDs: “Ummm…wasn’t she, like, already the Vice President for the past four years?”
MSM: “Tim Walz is the saviour and J.D. Vance is weird! TROOOOOOOOOTHHHH!!!!!!”
CHUDs: (Glancing from the stammering, unit-abandoning, commie-banging, Mao-lover to the married, articulate, self-made Marine) “Ummm…what exactly is your definition of ‘weird’?”
And so on, and so on…
The MSM are like a serial drunk driver who’s run over his seventeenth pedestrian and from this, concludes that sidewalks are the REAL problem and that walking should therefore be outlawed.
And the funniest part is that they did it to themselves. Their destruction is entirely self-inflicted. I’d say it was even avoidable, but maybe not. Pride goeth before a fall, and after all, progtards gonna progtard.
That is brilliant. Applause.
(Kamala will save us from Kamala).
“It never occurs to these progtard propagandists that they’re failing on the second because they’ve deliberately kneecapped themselves on the first.”
Bingo. Despite his claims to the contrary, his journalists are nothing but arrogant, unrepentant, leftists, and the public has figured that out. So that’s why trust in the media is at an all-time low.
Trodwell
Butt they believvvvve, just as religious people believvvvve, and that is were a lot of problems stem from, BELIEF!
Trodwell.
That about covers it.
Seems our Progressive comrades,or our “betters” as they style themselves, have a very different idea of what “truth” might be.
Maybe they really do believe their own BS.
Hard to believe people could be so wilfully stupid.
To boast of your “skillful lying” and then complain that “Nobody trusts us”..
Impossible to parody.
However I am in the “They really are this stupid” camp.
Daily I must remind myself,Stupidity and Not See-ism are rampant.
They believe they are factual and non-biased, and that their decline is due to the people’s disbelief in their hallucinations. It’s like the dude who pops LSD and then gets mad at everyone else who doesn’t see the purple unicorn.