Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis is being denounced this week after the end of the short-lived tenure of Executive Editor Sally Buzbee and delivering a truth bomb to the staff. Lewis told them that they have lost their audience and “people are not reading your stuff.” It was a shot of reality in the echo chambered news outlet and the response was predictable. However, Lewis just might save this venerable newspaper if he follows his frank talk with meaningful reforms to bring balance back to the Post.
As someone who once wrote for the Washington Post regularly, I have long lamented the decline of the paper following a pronounced shift toward partisan and advocacy journalism. There was a time when the Post valued diversity of thought and steadfastly demanded staff write not as advocates but reporters. That began to change rapidly in the first Trump term.
Suddenly, I found editors would slow walk copy, contest every line of your column, and make unfounded claims. In the meantime, they were increasingly running unsupported legal columns and even false statements from authors on the left. When confronted about columnists with demonstrably false statements, the Post simply shrugged.
One of the most striking examples was after its columnist Philip Bump had a meltdown in an interview when confronted over past false claims. After I wrote a column about the litany of such false claims, the Post surprised many of us by issuing a statement that they stood by all of Bump’s reporting, including false columns on the Lafayette Park protests, Hunter Biden laptop and other stories. That was long after other media debunked the claims, but the Post stood by the false reporting.
The decline of the Post has followed a familiar pattern. The editors and reporters simply wrote off half of their audience and became a publication for largely liberal and Democratic readers. In these difficult economic times with limited revenue sources, it is a lethal decision. Yet, for editors and reporters, it is still professionally beneficial to embrace advocacy journalism even if it is reducing the readership of your own newspaper.
Lewis, a British media executive who joined the Post earlier this year, reportedly got into a “heated exchange” with a staffer. Lewis explained that, while reporters were protesting measures to expand readership, the very survival of the paper was now at stake:
“We are going to turn this thing around, but let’s not sugarcoat it. It needs turning around,” Lewis said. “We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
Other staffers could not get beyond the gender and race of those who would be overseeing them. One staffer complained “we now have four White men running three newsrooms.”
The Post has been buying out staff to avoid mass layoffs, but reporters are up in arms over the effort to turn the newspaper around.
The question is whether, after years of creating a culture of advocacy journalism and woke reporting, the Post is still capable of reaching a larger audience. If you want to read about certain stories, you are not likely to go to the Post, NPR or other outlets.
Likewise, with reporters referring to the January 6th riot as an “insurrection,” there is little doubt for the reader that the coverage is a form of advocacy. Again, such stories can affirm the bona fides for reporters, but they also affirm the bias for readers.
I truly do hope that the Washington Post can recover. The newspaper has played a critical role in our history and a towering example of journalism at its very best from the Pentagon Papers to Watergate. If you want people to “read your stuff,” you need to return to being reporters and not advocates; you need to start reaching an audience larger than yourself and your friends.
As I previously wrote, the mantra “Let’s Go Brandon!” was embraced by millions as a criticism as much of the media as President Biden. It derives from an Oct. 2 interview with race-car driver Brandon Brown after he won his first NASCAR Xfinity Series race. During the interview, NBC reporter Kelli Stavast’s questions were drowned out by loud-and-clear chants of “F*** Joe Biden.” Stavast quickly and inexplicably declared, “You can hear the chants from the crowd, ‘Let’s go, Brandon!’”
Stavast’s denial or misinterpretation of the obvious instantly became a symbol of what many Americans perceive as media bias in favor of the Biden administration. Indeed, some in the media immediately praised Stavast for her “smooth save” and being a “quick-thinking reporter.” The media’s reaction has fulfilled the underlying narrative, too, with commentators growing increasingly shrill in denouncing its use. NPR denounced the chant as “vulgar,” while writers at the Washington Post and other newspapers condemned it as offensive; CNN’s John Avalon called it “not patriotic,” while CNN political analyst Joe Lockhart compared it to coded rhetoric from Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan and ISIS.
The more the media has cried foul, however, the more people picked up the chant.
It was the public response to how many in the media have embraced advocacy journalism and rejected objectivity in reporting; in their view, readers and viewers are now to be educated rather than merely informed. That included the rejection of “both-sidesism,” the need to offer a balanced account of the news.
Many of us hope that Lewis will rescue the Post from itself in the coming months. It will not be easy after years of orthodoxy and advocacy in the ranks. Yet, the Washington Post is a national treasure worth fighting for. People are still longing for old-fashioned, reliable news. As with the Field of Dreams, if you re-build it, “they will come” back to the Post.
Turley used to punish columns for the Messenger. It failed because it was not extreme enough to compete with other news outlets that chose to cater to extreme views or offered quality content befitting those extreme views. Turley never said a word about it.
Shame on Turley for punishing those columns.
This made as much sense as any post you’ve ever made.
I understand he beat those columns mercilessly with an extension cord.
Turley gets all the cushy gigs.
I could beat columns to death!!!
To think I’ve spent all my time punishing unrepentant subs in my red room.
Turley punished columns?
Good lord in heaven! Not only is he a journalist, but a monster for punishing those poor columns! I am going to write to the UN and demand amnesty for all those poor, poor columns!
Quick! Someone sanction the professor!
#ISandWithColumns
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As opening statements begin today, i was reminded of a Politico article laying out the particulars around the gun discovery.
Its typical of Politico’s hack journalism, but it has some interesting nuggets in it. One of my favorites is this
An officer asked Hunter whether he had called his father about the incident before he arrived. Hunter responded, “I have never called my dad for anything,” according to the police report.
Lets not forget that the Secret Service in Delaware tried to steal the document that Hunter is now being tried for lying on. First of all, why the fvck is there SS in delaware in 2018???
Here is another
When a police officer asked Hunter whether the gun had been used in a crime, the officer reported that Hunter “became very agitated with me and asked me if I was intentionally trying to make him mad,” according to the report.
You know, nobody fvcks with a Biden.
When the officer asked Hunter whether he had been doing drugs or drinking heavily, he responded, “Listen, it isn’t like that. I think she believes I was gonna kill myself,” according to the report.
Think about what this means. Either the officer, who had already questioned Haley, stupidly failed to ask her that question, or Politico purposely left her response out of the article.
Politico=hack job journalism.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/25/sources-secret-service-inserted-itself-into-case-of-hunter-bidens-gun-477879
Everyone should be censored equally.
journalism is the cancer of society anonyms
Let me correct that…partisan propagandists masquerading as journalists and indoctrinated tools are the cancer of society.
I truly appreciate our host’s optimism, but no, the modern left has just gone too far to walk it back at this point. Elitist snowflake-ism destroys everything it touches – in record time – and these former bastions of usefulness have indeed been destroyed in record time.
They would need to eliminate their entire staff and start over to even THINK about having a chance, and it still wouldn’t suffice to extinguish their chicanery of just the past several years. It’s done, they are toast, and it’s sad to me the only consideration being made is in terms of dollars. Given Bezos is in the equation, Wapo will likely be the first to try to sell us on software generated news. That won’t work either. Good riddance, I say.
It is a generational problem, too, and I honestly don’t know what we are going to do with so many fragile, profoundly ignorant young people with zero skills to speak of other than deceit, temper tantrums, and/or spending their families’ money. 🤷🏽♂️
James,
Well, when you have a generation that has the attention span of a gnat, and gets their so-called news from a 30 second tik-toc video what can we expect? Just like the indoctrination they receive at college, they will gladly swallow the MSM propaganda. Then, when presented with objective facts, they throw a temper tantrum.
@Upstate
Indeed, my friend, indeed. 🤷🏻♂️
Be a much better world when all that’s left are Fox News, Newsmax, OAN the Federalist, etc
Like in any free market, a business is only as good as if it can gain a market share and be profitable.
Who’s fault is it the WaPo is hemorrhaging money, losing readership?
@Fair
If that’s all you can see in this conversation, whoo boy. You are definitely part of the problem and a living embodiment for the content of the post. Most of us can think a little more critically, thank goodness, and see a little further beyond our own noses. And I mean it – the silent majority is a real thing, and we are getting less silent all the time, and we aren’t doing it through prejudice, ignorance, hatred, violence, or destruction. I actually have great reason to believe this today, and I do believe it. The old adage, ‘If you aren’t part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.’ is particularly salient in 2024. Totalitarianism, tossing our Constitution in the bin – that is not the solution.
It shouldn’t exist because I don’t benefit from it.
There is no way I would ever read their bilge. Not now, not with some fresh new faces or technology which will lie to me more in some ways not experienced before, like maybe AI or ???
Gosh, Professor, odd that you didn’t mention the Bezos connection. Bezos made it quite clear that his intention was to have a mouthpiece that he could use against Trump and to manipulate political and social thought. The Post went advocacy journalism during the Nixon era. It worsened over the years, culminating with the Bezos influence. You hope for rehabilitation and redemption. I hope for the Post to continue its march into journalistic oblivion.
WaPo and the New York Times will probably go back to real news when Disney goes to back to real movies and quits releasing bombs. Of course Sleeping Beauty’s Castle will have already burned down and been replaced by a school for drag queens.
These people do real harm to us all.
These rags fan the whole fire of the Trans movement. If they were truly objective that movement would be a smoking heap of trash. So much of what is outlandish in American culture now is because of the one sided advocacy of the media.
These people have about the judgement and depth of preteen children and that is kind of an insult to preteens.
Ask yourself what these people would have been advocating at key times in history and the effect it would have had.
Luther (crackpot Priest), Galileo (the earth is still the center of the universe), Lincoln (insurrectionist), (jesus – a blithering small town conservative and insurrectionist with half assed magic tricks), Moses (A real Insurrectionist), Attila (a cleansing force over corruption), Joseph Stalin (a new way for the masses and freedom) – Scratch that because the New York Times actually did preach that.
Let them all burn down. I can think of better uses for the Trees, like green, peaceful forests with a quiet brook running through it and iced tea on your veranda (sweet of course, because we are civilized)
Then staffer at WaPo who complained about “4 white men running things” reminds me of an occasional classmate in kindergarten who ran around crying and acting out because the teacher gently corrected him about his bad behavior.
GEB,
Real journalist, Matt Taibbi, wrote an article a while ago about how far NPR had fallen. Now it is only about race and gender.
Same thing at the WaPo.
If Lewis has the real nerve to make the changes needed to save the WaPo, he is going to have to get rid of all the woke snowflakes.
UpstateFarmer-Yeah I read Taibibi and saw some of his interviews. Surprised we still have people of integrity in the media who can read and also draw conclusions even when not written in crayon
GWB- is really GEB, I missed the e-key because my Black Russian affected my typing skills
Absolutely spot on! Excellent!
Washington Post simply needs to CLEAN HOUSE, from Top to Bottom. Stop being the mouth piece of the Deep Stae, Washington Elite, DEMOCRATS. Bring in true hard hitting reporters, take a neutral stance and Report the real facts, not shaded or made up stories to help the Liberal DEM’s, Washington Elite. Jeff Bezos needs to let the paper run the real true facts not made up ones to help a party of Admin.
I doubt the Post will do this but if they want to gain readers etc. they need to make drastice changes, NOW,
Bezos just gave $30 million to some crazies who want to promote humans enjoying bugs for dinner. What do you think the chances are that he will see the light on truthful reporting? When you have billions to spend, who cares if you lose say a half a billion a year on the Washington Post?
Randy Perkins-I thought that was why we have civilization so we don’t have to eat bugs or slurp marrow from bones, run Buffalo off cliffs and spend days and nites sharpening our flint spears. I mean I do need time to get firewood because I’m worried about the ice age coming after this spell of warm weather passes.
Professor Turley doesn’t understand that traditional media today just won’t cut it. It wouldn’t survive the competition for readers and producing content that readers want. He forgets that we as a nation are so politically polarized that objective journalism is almost impossible to sustain. Turely can’t remain objective as a journalist despite his claims. He’s in the same boat as all other media engaged in advocacy journalism. In order to have a healthy level of readership in this country you MUST distinguish yourself by catering to the extreme. Because they get the most attention. If you are not taking an extremist position there is no captivation for an audience. This is why Fox News is successful, and others noticed. CNN, MSNBC, etc. all recognized the strategy Fox News employed and copied it. The media market is fiercely competitive and this leads to the most radical or extreme being the leading entities.
Turley’s employer, Fox News, is doing exactly what their readers want. Not because they are objective, but because they are advocating for the extreme view their readers have come to love. It is profitable.
There are very few truly objective journalism outfits and they are not deemed credible because the competition and audience don’t seem them as the norm, but an outlier.
It’s ironic that Turley is critical of advocacy journalism while engaging in advocacy journalism himself.
Turley is not a journalist, moron.
Anonymous,
Yes he is.
Journalist; a person who writes for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or prepares news to be broadcast.
He writes for several newspapers and news websites. By the number of columns he writes in multiple publications he’s certainly a journalist. He’s also a professor, legal analyst, and a lawyer.
Wrong again moron.
He writes columns that organizations choose to publish.
How much someone writes is not determinative of whether they are a journalist, else you could claim to be one for all the nonsense you post here.
And Jon Say as well.
i reject your reality and substitute my own. New George the Moron
Anonynous,
“ He writes columns that organizations choose to publish.”
Organizations such as online news organizations. Writing columns as much as he does makes him a columnist. A columnist is a journalist contributing regularly to those organizations. Journalists do those kinds of things all the time.
Negative ghost rider.
The word opinion is nowhere in your definition.
A journalist can be a columnist, every columnist is not a journalist.
Nice try, keep raving. Its hilarious.
Every columnist IS a journalist. Journalism is writing columns.
“ Jonathan Turley is an American attorney, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism”
He’s a journalist no matter how you parse it.
He writes for newspapers, magazines, and online news organizations. Things journalists do.
It clearly says he is a legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism.
Thanks for proving my point.
My wife was a nurse in the Medical field. Doesnt make her a doctor.
I was an engineer in the field of nuclear energy. Doesnt make me a nuclear physicist.
“Opinion journalist”. That must be like “willful denial” and “convicted felon”
Bwahahahaha put down the coffee bro!!
Anonymous,
He’s also a columnist.
Columnist; a journalist contributing regularly to a newspaper or magazine.
He’s definitely a journalist.
Definitely not.
News.
Opinion is not journalism.
Hannity is a journalist then.
Tucker Carlson is a journalist then.
Rachel Maddow is a journalist then.
Definitely not.
Anonymous,
“ Opinion is not journalism.”
Opinion journalism is. Ever heard of Op-Ed’s written by….journalists?
Hannity and Tucker are not journalists. They are opinion talking heads, commentators. Not journalists. They don’t do their own research to report. They are just offering their comments to their audience.
Direct quote from Hannity,
“ I never claimed to be a journalist.” (In an article published in December 2017). That was in response to getting on stage an promoting Trump when he was criticized by the media.
Tucker is a journalist.
Rachel Madow is a journalist. Because she writes columns for newspapers AND produces news reports for broadcast.
Lmao at you twisting yourself into a pretzel to try to make sense.
Hannity says he’s not a journalist so he’s not,,,LOL
You think Maddow does her own research……LMAO
“Opinion journalism is. Ever heard of Op-Ed’s written by….journalists?”
Ever hear of Op-Eds not written by journalists? Writing an Op-ed doesnt make you a journalist. Politicians do it all the time. Scientists do it. Attorneys and law professors like Turley do it.
You really should put down the coffee and think a little before you post dude. No kidding.
“Hannity and Tucker are not journalists.”
“Tucker is a journalist.”
You just made both of these statements in the SAME POST.
You are so twisted up you cant even decide yourself what you think.
Hilarious!!!!
Maybe one less shot in your latte tomorrow, bro.
That was a mistake on my part. At least I acknowledge my mistakes.
But the point still stands. Turley is a journalist among his many….trades.
A mistake made because you post like a crack whore, typing faster than you can think.
You have no less than twenty mistakes you have yet to acknowledge, Georgie Porgie, ao thats another lie.
We can start with your mistake about tolling the SOL. You claimed that it automatically tolls for “golf trips”. I gave you case law and a NY judges opinion on what it takes to toll the SOL (a compelling reason), yet you NEVER admitted you were full of shit and pulling crap out of your ass.
You have also never defined “general intent” according to NY law.
alternative medicine is not medicine
Regularly does not mean what you think it does.
It means he writes with consistently and he does. Journalists do that.
And so do legal analysts, which is what he is.
Sorry.
Call me crazy, but in order to be called a journalist, one would of had to attend the school of journalism in college, gotten a degree in journalism.
I have written for a blog on farm related stuff. That does not make me a journalist?
Of course not.
Does my owning a Corvette make me a NASCAR driver?
Of course not.
The good professor is a lawyer who writes law related analysis columns for several media outlets. Does that make him a journalist?
Of course not.
If he was a journalist, he would reflect that in his credentials.
This is the problem with George the Moron. As I pointed out before, he starts with a conclusion and goes looking for evidence to support his conclusion. That is his version of seeking truth.
He doesnt see the difference between the definition of journalist and who is a journalist.
A Chevrolet is a car. Every car is not a Chevrolet. A journalist writes articles for rags. Everyone who writes for rags is not a journalist.
I gave him multiple opportunities to reach this conclusion himself, but he couldnt because he once again started with a conclusion so no amount of reasoning would change his mind.
He even posted that Hannity could merely claim to not be a journalist, and followed that up with Turleys bio showing that he is an analyst, not a journalist. His own posts!!
And he wonders why i call him an idiot.
Looks more like when reality does not fit his argument, he changes reality to fit it.
Upstatefarmer,
“ Call me crazy, but in order to be called a journalist, one would of had to attend the school of journalism in college, gotten a degree in journalism.”
That’s not necessarily true these days. Anyone who writes columns and/or writes for magazines and online news organizations on a regulars basis can be defined as a journalist. Turley does engage in journalism every time he writes a column or opinion for a news organization regularly.
Owning a corvette does not make you a NASCAR driver. But if you race it on weekends it makes you a racing driver. See the difference? You can be an amateur to professional and still be called a racing driver.
Turley can be considered a professional since he has written for so long and so often. You don’t have to have a journalism degree to be defined a journalist if you engage in journalism on your own. Journalism is just writing on events and opinion of events or issues.
That has got to be the most illogical thing I have read in months.
No wonder they call you New George, the moron.
Yea notice he doesnt respond to my clear explanation of why his label of Turley is false and stupid.
His own post showed he was wrong.
“He forgets that we as a nation are so politically polarized that objective journalism is almost impossible to sustain.”
George, you’re one of the most partisan and objective posters here. YOU’RE part of the problem.
STFU
^^Meant to say the LEAST objective here.
You’re hilarious. That Freudian slip was a nice touch.
Keep liking your own comments.
By ‘Freudian slip’ you mean like you saying Tucker is a journalist?
Now try saying something that isn’t completely partisan/misguided.
George (otherwise known as George of the Jungle) I think you have already hit the tree on your daily swing and many more times before that
GEB,
So all you have is ad hominem attacks and offer nothing of value to the discussion? Perhaps you should propose a counter opinion that has some substance instead of insults.
All you did was ad hom Turley, you stupid douchebag.
And you ad hom “Trump supporters” here every day “because you have nothing to add”
You reap what you sow.
No, I criticized Turley. All you do is insult.
No, i criticize you for being ignorant, for example, and i clearly state why that criticism is valid. That you find it insulting is merely a function of you being panty waisted (see, once again i give clear confirmation of my reasoning).
So tell us what “willful denial” is. You have used that term to “criticize” trump supporters. You dont think people would find that insulting?
No, you just hurl insults.
What is willful denial, idiot?
What is a “convicted felon”, idiot?
If indeed all i did was hurl insults, that would be better than you, who spends all of his time hurling insults AND posting ignorant shit like “Turley is a journalist”.
I fvcking dug in my garden today. Doesn’t make me a gardener.
I cleaned my pool. Doesnt make me a pool boy.
I gave my granddaughter a hitting lesson. Doesnt make me a hitting instructor.
I will say this though. “Regularly” posting MORONIC posts definitely makes you a MORON.
We are still waiting for you to define the insults “willful denial” and “convicted felon”, ya fvcking hypocrite.
So following on your comments…why is WAPO losing market/money? If as you say advocating for extreme views is profitable?
Because there is disarray and there is fierce competition. Every newspaper has been losing market and money. When the internet exploded it news print became almost an afterthought since people can get their information instantly on their phones to other electronic media. They also have to compete with bloggers and independent news sites. It’s not just about bias or a lack of objectivity.
We are still waiting for you to define the insults “willful denial” and “convicted felon”, ya fvcking hypocrite.
You can’t say it enough…go woke, go broke. Or – you can lead a horse to water..
Or you can fool some of the people some of the time… the common sense wisdom of the silent American will overcome the hubris of pseudo-intellectuals .almost every time (although Obama did pull a slick fast one on us).
What they, the so-called journalists, need to experience is a dose of reality in the form of lay offs. If the WaPo wants to survive, they need to get rid of all the dead weight, hire real journalists, do real reporting and they might regain the trust of the public.
Nah!
Support independent news outlets like The Free Press, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, Sharyl Attkisson, to name a few. They are doing great reporting.
Oh, anyone recall when Obama’s admin was pushing to close down coal plants and shut down coal mining operations?
News reporters told them to “Learn to code!”
Then, when lay offs were happening in newsrooms, telling them to “Learn to code!” was suddenly offensive.
“I truly do hope that the Washington Post can recover.”
This is a kind thought and I do believe our host is a kind man. But this is war and, if you want to win, there must be enemy casualties. I am hoping the Washington Post, among others, will be a casualty. They have utterly abandoned any semblance of journalistic ethics and richly deserve that fate.
They should be rounded up and put into concentration camps.
Obviously Turley’s idea of “freedom of the press” is freedom to print only that with which his overlords agree.
That he could publish this diatribe without a hint of self-awareness or irony is absolutely beyond belief.
He publishes his rants at Fox and The Hill, two of the most biased and extreme right wing “news outlets”.
Turley has now made it crystal clear that he is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda machine. The newly appointed leaders at the Washington Post come from Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. William Lewis, the new CEO at the Post who appointed these people from the WSJ, is from England, where he worked at Murdoch’s News of the World. He was deeply involved in the phone hacking scandal in which Murdoch authorized the hacking of cell phones of the Royal Family and well known celebrities. This scandal eventually led to Murdoch being forced to close the News of the World to avoid criminal prosecution.
The level of hypocrisy in this overtly political and biased piece by Turley is absolutely staggering.
YAWN
I should also add that allowing FOREIGN AGENTS such as Murdoch and Lewis to subvert our country’s principle of freedom of the press is absolutely unacceptable.
YAWN
You use that word. Diatribe. I think you do not know what it means.
Is that what you got out of my post ??
That I don’t know what diatribe means ??
Are you happy that CRIMINAL FOREIGN AGENTS, Rupert Murdoch and William Lewis, who committed crimes of phone hacking are now running the paper. These two individuals avoided criminal prosecution by shutting down the News of the World. They are currently engaged in 40 civil lawsuits regarding cell phone hacking. They have already paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
Are you happy that FOREIGNERS like this can be allowed to subvert our constitutional principles.
YAWN
This morning, I had to take my car into the shop for a repair. While there, I picked up a Washington Post and thumbed through it quickly. I had not read this paper since 1982 when I cancelled my subscription. I saw immediately what Turley is talking about and what the editor or whomever said was needed to save the paper. It’s true; the people are not reading this stuff and those who still do, are terribly misinformed and cannot understand what’s happening around them. Having been well aware of all the important news from yesterday, it was informative and sad to see how the Post was spinning what I saw and heard for myself. Anyone who reads this paper deserves to be left behind by the propaganda. For example, Eugene Robinson’s column is still craving the impossible dream. Today, he’s hoping Trump stands aside because of the NY conviction. Under different circumstances I’m sure Robinson would tailor his view. Democracy dies in darkness and so does the truth.
Why is Putin still alive to do such things? Putin should be bombed so that he knows how it feels.
Legacy media (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC etc. combined, have a viewership that is less than 10% of the population. They cater to an older generation. I stopped watching a couple of years ago.
The same goes for traditional sources that were once trusted newspapers, magazines. I stopped taking the paper during last election as it was a one sided and the quality of written expression had gone into the toilet.
So now they will deploy AI? Maybe robots can write fairly.
They strayed from core values such as truth and integrity. It is a small wonder that these are the results. As a well known restraint owner and chef told me, “You are as good as the last meal you cooked. If you mess up once, your customer will give you another chance. If you do it again, they are gone forever and will tell everyone they know.”
E.M.
The funny part is they see themselves as the victim and cannot understand why the public distrusts them so much.
Be funny if they were replaced by AI and the AI wrote better.
Burn baby Burn, the Trammps
I’d like to see an end to advocacy journalism everywhere, the insurrection vs riot is a great example.
As for “let’s go Brandon” though, I took it as simple vulgarity in the public square, a chance to direct the F word at Biden in Public, like the cyclist who flipped off Trump’s limo when he was President. We don’t need the coarsening of our public.
Anon, there is no going back. Vulgarity is here to stay; the more vulgar, the more attractive it is to the public. It will get worse. Its everywhere and the media relishes it and its readers gobble it up. So, if you don’t like it you can go… lol?
Then obviously you would like to see an end to Fox “News”.
Nah, but you would.
Bwahahahahahahaa