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.
LET’S NOT SUGARCOAT IT!
America lost its Constitution and Bill of Rights when restrictions were removed from the vote.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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“[We gave you] a republic, if you can take it back.”
– Ben Franklin, 2021
All voters should have to demonstrate they have passed the same test as those being naturalized.
And that test should be land ownership
The voter qualifications prescribed by the Founders in 1788 were, generally by State legislature, male, European, 21, with 50lbs. Sterling or 50 acres in net worth.
Turnout in 1788 was 11.6% by design.
America lost its Constitution and Bill of Rights when restrictions were removed from the vote.
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“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
Who is more likely to get America into a nuclear war? Biden or Trump?
Biden.
He recently said in a Time interview that he would not rule out the possibility of US forces on the ground in Taiwan.
According to US officials, Xi told China’s military to be ready for a invasion of Taiwan by 2027.
If by that time, the Ukraine war still on going and the Israel war, then we would be looking at a possible three conflicts at the same time.
This is why our enemies a supporting another four years of Biden. They benefit the most.
China, Russian, North Korea, and Iran.
Biden says he needs Congress to pass the “we really mean it this time” law on the border
Biden allowed 17 million new communist voters into America.
He will act to slow the flow by .0001%.
The new leadership at The Washington Post comes from Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal. They were installed by the new CEO, William Lewis, who was appointed November 2023. Lewis previously worked for Murdoch at the News of the World paper in the UK. Lewis and Murdoch were deeply involved in the cell phone hacking scandal that destroyed the News of the World. Murdoch authorized his minions to hack the phones of members of the Royal Family and other celebrities. Several low level staff and reporters were convicted and jailed for their crimes. Murdoch escaped culpability because his son James destroyed evidence by deleting all of the paper’s computer files and emails. They essentially destroyed the business. They took an electronic wrecking ball to the business. Murdoch and Lewis were forced to shut down the paper on one days notice. He abandoned his investment and walked away in order to avoid criminal prosecution.
Although Murdoch escaped criminal liability he has faced over 40 civil lawsuits, and has already paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Murdoch also paid out $787 million for his lies about the 2020 election.
We now have a situation where criminal foreign agents are in control of a major US newspaper, and are in a position to take advantage of OUR constitutional protections.
We fought a Revolutionary War to free ourselves from British tyranny.
What do you think Ben Franklin, our first great newspaper publisher, would have to say about British criminal foreign agents taking over a prominent US paper ????
Turley has clearly associated himself with this criminal enterprise as a wholly owned subsidiary of Murdoch’s propaganda machine.
YAWN
We are constantly told by left wing nuts that we can not trust Fox or Turley because of political bias or because they have been bought.
We have posters here telling us We can not Trust Judge Cannon because she is a republican. If Cannon followed the law and constitution – the FL case would have been dismissed already. Instead she has SOMETIMES required prosecutors to follow the law
To the extent there is evidence of bias – as with Judge MacAffe in GA it is mild bias against Trump and the defense. A bias that is normal in nearly all criminal cases.
Yet when the left is called into account because Sorros has funded the weaponization of the law, and corrupt and incompetent prosecutors
When we see blatant conflicts of interests – those we are all supposed to disregard ?
So you have no problem with CRIMINAL FOREIGN AGENTS running a major US newspaper.
Turley did not associate himself with Fox – the left wing nut Media lost interest in a liberal democrat who told the truth,
and as a result the only outlet that wanted his oppinion is Fox.
Over Trime Turley is slowly being red pilled – but not by Fox, but by the lies and misconduct of the left.
John Say,
As I have mentioned in the past to our leftist friends attacking the good professor for supposedly being a Fox . . . whatever, no, the good professor is pointing out how the radical left has highjacked the Democrat party. The good professor along with other long time liberal Democrats like Elon Musk, Bill Maher, my sister, are all shocked and disgusted by what the far left represents and how they have corrupted their party.
YAWN
The New leadership at the Post is being brought in by Bezos who is tired of putting hundreds of millions into what was once the top paper in the country and is now less trustworthy than “News of the World”.
As to Murdock – he has built Fox into the largest media conglomerate in the US, and has earned the Trust of people on the right and the left – with Fox being the only outlet that has a consequential following from both sides of the political aisle.
Murdock paid out 787M to end lawfare in a hostile venue that he was sure to lose.
We have seen over and over how the left has weaponized the law to silence and destroy political opposition.
With respect specifically to the DVS issues and 2020.
While the real inquiry has been limited, thus far there is no evidence that DVS “rigged” the election.
Their equipment is garbage, easily hacked and very bad at its job. It is massively error prone, and its upper management have made very stupid and biased political statements which should have resulted in their removal, the evidence so far is that DVS has not participated in rigging any elections. Though they have been deeply invovled in election fraud by lying about the problems with their equipment.
With respect to FOX – there is nothing that they aired in 2020 that was not legitimat news protected by the first amendment.
Left wing nut media has received pulitzer prizes for many stories that not only turned out to be hoaxes but hoaxes that were often know at the time. And many of these fraudulent pulitzers were for political stories like the collusion delusion.
None have given back their pulitzers.
None have lost billion dollar defamation lawsuits for far more egrgiously false reporting.
I do not particularly like Fox or follow them. I get much of my information from independent investigative journalists with a long track record of being right.
But as the MSM goes – Fox is the leas F#$ked up. that unfortunately does not make them good.
Just less garbage than the rest.
Yes Murdock paid a heavy price for making public the fact that the Prince of Wales wanted to be Camila Parker Bowles tampon.
He won’t win unless and until he cracks some heads and starts firing people.
Jonathan: It’s bizarre for you to complain the Washington Post is guilty of “advocacy journalism” when you practice it every day in your columns and in your appearances on Fox. In your early years on Fox you tried to portray yourself as a true “liberal”–that gave you gravitas as a neutral legal pundit criticizing the Democrats–especially over the two Trump impeachments. Now in DJT’s various criminal indictments over Jan. 6 and especially the criminal trial in NY and his conviction that pretense is over. When DJT stood outside the courtroom and read glowingly about your support for his defense it was plain for the world to see you have gone from legal neutral pundit to open “advocate”. From Jan. 6, that you still refuse to call an “insurrection”, to now falsely claiming Justice Merchan was politically biased against DJT, you seem bent on “advocating” for the interests of the former president.
I’ll keep my subscription to the WP. I’ll keep reading their opinion section as I have done for years. And I’ll also watch your appearances on Fox and I will read your columns. I don’t don’t have any problem with “advocacy journalism”. What I have a problem with is your to claim that “advocacy” from the liberal media, like the WP, is somehow “woke reporting” and not reliable– but what we read in your columns and what you say on Fox should be treated as legitimate factual news. Please, I’m not THAT gullible!
What you should do is own up to your problem. It’s like DJT’s refusal to admit he had sex with Stormy Daniels. It would have been much better trial strategy to just admit that happened but provide some plausible defenses. That would have worked better. But DJT couldn’t do that and after Daniels testified credibly I think DJT pretty much lost the case at that point. Nobody on this planet believes DJT did not have sex with the porn star. Once DJT lost his credibility on that issue the jury didn’t believe anything else he claimed as a defense.
It’s the same with your claim that the WP is guilty of “advocacy journalism” and can’t be trusted to just report the factual news. The longer you keep beating that drum, readers of the WP will realize you have some personal vendetta against the newspaper and you are not credible. You will be in the same sorry state as DJT!
Turley is not a journalist, retard. He is a legal analyst.
The fact that you and idiots like George think that Turley is a journalist, is what is wrong with journalism these days.
Has someone told you not to read whatever you want ?
Regardless WaPo is failing as is NYT and the left portion fo the MSM. That is the topic of Turley’s post
Lewis was brought in to turn it arround.
If you think you have a better way – contact Jeff Bezos. I am absolutely certain he would be happy to see the Post survive and thrive as the woke trash that it is.
In the end Free markets work.
Are all the left leaning media outlets in serious trouble because “go woke, go broke” is true ?
That sure seems to be the pattern.
But again – prove that wrong and you could be fabulously wealthy.
Your entitled to like whatever you want.
Your note entitled to demand that govenrment in the case of NPR or an assortment of billionares provide you what you want at a loss.
It is self evident to Bezos, and Disney Shareholders, and CNN shareholders and …. that things have to change.
So the odds are the WaPo that you like is unlikely to remain unchanged.
It will change or die. It may be to late.
I have no problem with open advocacy journalism – thogh for the most part it is opinion not journalism and belones on the op-ed pages.
I expect those reporting on the news – as opposed to analysizing it will stick to straight news – no advocacy.
If they do not – I will go elsewhere.
The MSM is in trouble because there is alot of that going elsewhere.
Getting the facts right is not advocacy. Turley is a constitutional law expert. He is familiar with the law and constitution – far more familiar than Judge Mercahn.
When Turley says that Trump did not get due process, that the trial was conducted outside the law – that is not Advocacy, it is FACT. FACT that Turley has followed up with correct analysis and caselaw.
Turley is doing analysis of the Trump case -= because it is very high profile.
He will also do analysis of the Hunter Biden case shortly.
You are under the delusion that Turley is engaged in advocacy, because the left and their minions are close to universally wrong on the law and the constitution.
Call J6 an insurrection if you wish. But if you do not also describe events from the left that meet the same definition as insurrection, then you are just a hypocrite.
Turley is absolutely biased – towards the left. But that bias is slowly fading because he continuously gives the left the benefit of the doubt only to find they are lying – AGAIN.
Burn your credibility to the grounds and people quit giving what you say any weight.
Turley is moving away from the left because they have lied so much and been caught.
WaPo can not be trusted – because they have been wrong so frequently they have burned peoples trust.
As a result their revenue is WAY down.
It is likely that current readers of WaPo like you like it as it is.
That would be fine – except that you are dependent on massive subsidies from billionaires who are growing impatient.
Rupert Murdock saw that there was an underserved audience and he has made a fortune catering to that audience.
You can rant and rave about Fox all you want but it succeeded – profitably, and it has come to dominate the market.
The only thing that prevented the rest of the MSM from killing Fox off early on was misjudging the market.
Today There are billionaires behind conservative journalism – and they are MAKING MONEY for themselves and their shareholders.
And there are Billionaires baking woke left media like WaPo, and they are losing money subsidize something that can not survive without those subsidies.
Bezos and Schultzberg can do what they want with their money – if they want to make welfare queens of woke left journalists – that is their business.
But NPR is subsidized by the government. That is immoral.
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Put A Felon In The White House
Riverside County Sheriff
A Rational Great American!
Notice he didnt say “convicted felon”
An idiotic term that makes anyone using it look like a MORON
A “convicted felon” in New York ONLY.
Real President Donald J. Trump has never been convicted of anything in any other state.
New York is now a toxic, corrupt, and rogue State which must be segregated from the United States of America.
Amen!
WaPo has been a known propaganda outlet for decades. True story: more than 30 years ago I was visiting DC and bought a copy of it on the street from one of those newspaper vending machines. As I was pulling the paper out of the machine, an African American dude with do-rag and looking and sounding like from the deep hood, approached me and said: “Why you buying that piece of crap commie paper? That ain’t nothin’ but left-wing BS.” I could hardly believe my ears, and all I could say was, “You spoke a mouth full of truth there my friend.” He seemed satisfied and went on his way.
There you go, who needs any journalists of any trip, an unknown person said something therefore it is tru.
New George the Moron claims that if you write an Op-ed, it makes you a journalist.
Dont look now, Marsha Blackburn is now a journalist.
“Biden campaign considering having his DOJ indict and prosecute him for anything so he can boost his fundraising, just like Trump.” (not Babylon Bee, yet) After all, that’s the only difference between the two campaigns, right? They kept Trump off the campaign trail and his lead increased. So the Left’s, logical next step is to convict Biden and voila, he’ll be the next president.
January 2024
“President Biden, have you done everything you can on the border?”
“I have done everything I can do. I need more power.”
——-joe Biden
Apparently Joe has more power today than he did in January.
We can only assume it was granted to him by the same person that tells him who he can call on in the press.
Would Gigi care to comment? George? Dennis?
They don’t comment; they lie and propagandize, erroneously believing they are successfully indoctrinating and brainwashing.
They’re —-ing incoherent, rabid, radical extremist ideologues who have no concept of freedom or America.
They are direct and mortal enemies of the American thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, actual Americans, and America.
Why
Let’s be clear here. New George the Moron claims that Biden didnt know he had classified materials, because his handlers did it.
Page ONE of Hur’s report clearly states that Biden was quite aware that he possessed classified documents and knowingly divulged classified information.
Page EIGHT of Hur’s report states that Biden had clear incentive to possess and divulge this information in the making of his book, which made him $8M
But George claims Biden did nothing wrong.
Gigi claims that Biden wasnt charged because he immediately returned the documents and Trump didnt.
There is no such allowance in the law for “returning the documents the first time they are demanded”. Trump received additional charges for “conspiring to hide” the documents. Biden got a pass for willful mishandling because he is a doddering old fool who a jury would likely feel sorry for.
Waters,
“New George the Moron claims that Biden didnt know he had classified materials, because his handlers did it.”
That’s not what I said. What I said was Biden was not responsible for handling classified material on his own as in obtaining it from the sources and returning them to the appropriate authorities or agency when he no longer had need for them. Those administrative functions are the job of the staff. Staff are responsible for handling such things. He’s not expected to remember everything or do everything.
“Page ONE of Hur’s report clearly states that Biden was quite aware that he possessed classified documents and knowingly divulged classified information.”
Of course, but that’s not all it said.
“To our knowledge no one has identified any classified information published in ‘Promise me, Dad’ but Mr. Biden shared information, including some classified information, from those notebooks with his ghostwriter.”
No information was published, and it seems the classified information came from his handwritten notes. That doesn’t mean the information was particularly sensitive or important. You’ve gotta remember, the government often over classifies a lot of information.
“Page EIGHT of Hur’s report states that Biden had clear incentive to possess and divulge this information in the making of his book, which made him $8M
But George claims Biden did nothing wrong.”
Neither did Hur. This follows the sentence you cite,
“We do not, however, believe this evidence would meet the government’s burden at trial—particularly the requirement to prove that Mr. Biden intended to do something the law forbids”.
Hur purposely mischaracterizes “notebooks” for what they were, his diaries. Which were personal property.
Biden wasn’t charged because the prosecution at trial would not be able to prove he intentionally sought to keep them. He voluntarily returned them and fully cooperated. Trump did not do that. Not after he had to be subpoenaed.
He admitted he sought to keep them.
You just made the exact same argument i accused you of making and then denied making regarding the handling of the materials.
The documents didnt walk out of a secure skiff on their own, and an aid had no more authority to remove them than biden did. Period.
I also related to you the story of the career sailor that Trump pardoned and released from incarceration, who was convicted of taking a selfie in the control room of a submarine. One he did not share with anyone, taken in an area that is toured daily by visitors.
Please say “the government over classifies things all the time” in the voice of Erkel. Like that is actually a defense. I can almost hear the 8 year old you making excuses to your mom. At least gas light us with something above a third grade level.
“Biden wasn’t charged because the prosecution at trial would not be able to prove he intentionally sought to keep them. “
Here George doubles down on his stupidity. The “prosecution” concluded that is exactly what he did.
Res ipsa loquitur
You want to suspend all logic here, once again. You said the aids had security clearance to handle the documents. Then where are the charges against them? With clearance come responsibility and accountability. You truly want us to believe Biden didnt tell his people to pack those Afghanistan files? Give it a rest, dude, seriously. He told the ghost writer why he kept those files. He wanted to prove to the world that he was right about Afghanistan.
And even if he didnt tell them too, it was no goddam accident. Someone deliberately packed marked classified materials in a box of Joe Bidens personal effects. The fact Hur claims he cant prove intent means NOTHINg to people with half a brain.
Your defense of the indefensible shows the sycophant you are. Typical lefty, who doesnt realize that even if Joe purposely mishandled classified material, you can still have your dead babies, sexual mutilation of minors, porn in elementary school libraries, and drag queen story hour. Instead you walk the party line on EVERY single issue, to the detriment of your credibility.
Good pickup, Waters. George doesn’t know the difference between facts and lies.
He knows that if he repeats his lies often enough, they become his facts.
But if he looked at the bigger picture truth of things, his house of cards collapses.
Journalists have been outed as propagandists. It is difficult to trust anything they write or say.
The WaPo, NYT, FoxNews, OAN, etc. are only half of the news transaction. Consumers are the other half and they bear the lion-share of responsibility in this information war. Same goes for the existence of the tyrannical regime known as our federal government. Voters are responsible for the government we have. They exist as they are because we exist as we are. The tragic irony of natural rights theory is we have the natural right to be ignorant. Of course if we never left the state of nature, we’d have remained naturally skeptical or died. Entering into civil society and forming governments should never diminish skepticism. There is one word in the DoI that should have been in ALL CAPS and bolded: That WHENEVER any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends… It doesn’t say if ever. We would very likely not be in the position we are today had we understood the relationship between natural rights and the purpose for government. And to never simply trust without verification.
Olly– “Voters are responsible for the government we have.”
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Maybe it’s only the people who count the votes who are responsible. Perhaps the voters don’t have much to do with it.
Olly, it seems as if you are starting to bring the heat.
As you know, it was a mere three years after the Boston Tea Party that the Founders issued the Declaration of Independence.
Alas, America has NO men of that caliber, allegiance, or resolve.
Just curious if the real CTHD is still around in the Turley atmosphere?
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I don’t think so. She vanished after the last election, job done. I had wondered too.
One of America’s secret sauce is to haven an environment that allows “creative destruction”. At some point old favorites lose their relevancy and need to die. However, there will still be a market out there for something. It just takes some imagination to know what that something is. This is not easy as Kenny Roger’s song so memorably states, “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em. Know when to fold ’em. Know when to walk away. And know when to run”
Senator Kennedy
“Biden has had an epiphany on the border, simply because he is polling lower than fungal infections”
CEO William Lewis is virtue signaling that the Post will now disembark from the Phys-Ops feeding Tube (Read below: Until a time again where it is useful to collect Embedded Governmental Reporting Stories – for Gov Payola).
Face the Facts – per Wikipedia.org
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post
The Washington Post
“… In October 2013, the Graham family sold the newspaper to Nash Holdings, a holding company owned by Jeff Bezos, for $250 million. …
In late September 2013, Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post and other local publications, websites, and real estate for US$250 million, transferring ownership to Nash Holdings LLC, Bezos’s private investment company. The paper’s former parent company, which retained some other assets such as Kaplan and a group of TV stations, was renamed Graham Holdings shortly after the sale. …”
Jeff Bezos makes a very sizable amount of money from the Government with AWS [Amazon Web Services (I.T.)] along as well with his Merchant Market Platform. Bezos is no different than Microsoft et.al., Oracle, Space-X, … the Tech Multi-Multi Billionaires that made it off Government Contracts (Fiat Budgets).
As the Theater-of-War heats up in Middle Europe and elsewhere, Bezos’ Logistic System will become the ‘Gen. George C. Marshall’ of the War machine (Logistics Czar).
Hence The Washington Post is now shedding its Liberal Left Lean in it’s preparation for a Wartime Press. Wherein the Post will reconnect with Phys-Ops and new Staff & A.I., streamlining the company and making it profitable.
(Nothing more to say about that Kids – Read the Tea Leaves).
“… In 2015, the Post moved from the building it owned at 1150 15th Street to a leased space three blocks away at One Franklin Square on K Street. …”
Now the Post is positioned in the ‘Right Place at the Right Time’ (at the intersection of: Wartime & K-Street)
“… In May 2024, CEO and publisher William Lewis announced that the organization would embrace AI to improve the paper’s financial situation, telling staff it would seek “AI everywhere in our newsroom.” …”
So the stage is set for the Digital Push of streamlined synthesized News via DARPA Streaming Outlets (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).
Indeed WaPo sold-out long ago, that’s to say, ‘This isn’t Ben Bradlee’s and Kay Graham’s Paper anymore’.
“In February 2017, the Post adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness” for its masthead.” – Yes Sir it certainly did.
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I’m sorry, but even if they manage to chart a new course, the remaining stench of progressive partisanship lies heavily over the entire media industry and especially within the ranks of journalism graduates recently indoctrinated at their universities, I don’t see how a change of leadership cam overcome a large pool of progressive tools. I would no more trust this paper any more than I trust MSNBC or joy reid.