As someone who used to write regularly for the newspaper, it has been a long time since I have had an occasion to say this but . . . Bravo, Washington Post.
This week, the Post announced that not only would it not endorse a candidate this year, but it would not do so in the future. Over two decades ago, I wrote a column calling for newspapers to end the practice of all election endorsements. (Yes, before all things seemed to turn on how you feel about Donald Trump). I have continued to push the press to abandon this pernicious practice.
When I first came out against political endorsements, the media had not taken the plunge into advocacy journalism, which is now strangling the life out of this industry.
As former New York Times writer (and now Howard University journalism professor) Nikole Hannah-Jones has declared that “all journalism is activism.”
After a series of interviews with over 75 media leaders, Leonard Downie Jr., former Washington Post executive editor, and Andrew Heyward, former CBS News president, reaffirmed this shift. As Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle, stated: “Objectivity has got to go.”
The result has been the plummeting of trust in the media to an all-time low. Revenues and readership are falling as outlets struggle to survive. Yet, reporters are still refusing to reconsider the abandonment of neutrality and objectivity.
Recently, Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, “Let’s not sugarcoat it…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.”
The response was calls for Lewis and other editors to be canned. These reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.
Now Lewis is under fire again after announcing, “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.”
The Washington Post Guild immediately went ballistic at the thought of not openly supporting Kamala Harris, though many would point out that the Post has hardly been subtle in its coverage on that point.
The Guild expressed alarm at the thought of leaving readers to reach their own conclusions “a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election.” According to the staff, the Post needs “to help guide readers,” and “according to our own reporters and Guild members, an endorsement for Harris was already drafted, and the decision not to publish was made by The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos.”
Perish the thought that the Post would start to raise free-range readers left to reach their own conclusions.
Former executive editor Martin “Marty” Baron and others went into absolute vapors. Baron declared, “This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.”
Others retreated into anonymity to denounce their management, with some making precisely the case for not doing such endorsement: “It very disingenuously draws false equivalencies. This is not, for example, Kamala Harris vs. Mitt Romney. This is Kamala Harris against someone who tried to disenfranchise the electorate last time.”
It is ironic since, at the time, Romney was portrayed as a fascist, as were prior Republican nominees.
One of the most curious responses came from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I, Vt.): “This is what Oligarchy is about. Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest person in the world and the owner of the Washington Post, overrides his editorial board and refuses to endorse Kamala.”
An oligarchy is defined as “government by the few.” That is precisely what the public sees in an effective state media and why “Let’s Go Brandon!” became a type of “Yankee Doodling” of the political and media establishment.
Sanders’s objection is that the owner decided not to exercise the power of the few but instead left the choice to voters. According to Sanders, that is the definition of oligarchy in declining to act as an oligarch.
As discussed years ago, the decision of newspapers to engage in political endorsements has had a corrosive influence for years. It destroys the separation between newspapers and those who are supposed to be the subjects of their investigatory and journalistic work.
My prior column called for the termination of not just presidential endorsements, though it is a good start. There should be a commitment to total neutrality in all elections, from judges to senators to presidents.
The Washington Post is not alone. The Los Angeles Times has declined to make an endorsement, which also led to a staff revolt.
The decision not to endorse in this election could prove a critical moment for mainstream media in turning the corner on the era of advocacy journalism. While skeptical, I genuinely hope that Bezos has decided to reconsider the course of the Post. We need the Post and the rest of the mainstream media. The media plays a critical role in our democracy as a neutral source of information on government abuse and corruption.
However, that role also needs the trust of the public. Otherwise, as Lewis told the Post staff, “no one is reading your stuff.”
That is evident from the very closeness of this election. After years of unrelenting anti-Trump coverage and a billion-dollar war chest to sell Harris to the public, the country is still divided right down the middle.
The Post and other papers are writing for each other and core Democratic readers. The rest of America is moving on to new media on social media and other sources.
For those of us who loved the old Post and want our “Fourth Estate” to be strong, this is a meaningful start.
So Bravo, Washington Post.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
This column ran in Fox.com.
Did Rogan swallow or did he just wipe his face off?
I’m asking for a friend, I’m not actually gay.
ROFL It’s all a sick joke. After they are all 100% partisan, they now want to not endorse since everyone knows who they totally endorse anyway, plus she is a disaster so they get to save some face while doing NOTHING and will still cheat lie and steal with every article they write on the 2024 election.
TOTALLY THUMBS DOWN, FINE THEM A BILLION FOR BEING IDIOTS and trying the final con.
Kamala: Abuser of power.
Total BS. Did you make it through community college?
One of the most brutal ads you’ve ever seen against a politician. Just watch it again. 🔥🔥🔥
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time”
Maya Angelou.
Her name is Cheree Peoples. Her daughter has sickle cell disease and missed school due to her illness. Kamala Harris sent her thugs to arrest Cheree and then proceeded to RUIN HER. Why? For money. She’s on tape saying it: “I want the money” for the state. Truancy denies the state millions in federal funds. Why else? Because she could — with just “the swipe of her pen” — because Kamala Harris is an entitled abuser.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/18/arrested_by_kamala_a_black_mothers_story.html
Here is the rap song version of ‘Kamala, abuser of power’:
They are struggling and last year lost 77 million dollars. Maybe someone actually realized that they have alienated at least half of their potential customers. Simple math.
I dumped our paper after decades. I miss the ritual of opening the paper over morning coffee, but got tired of the stark partisanship and significant amounts of bull s*** and ineptitude.
Bye bye love…
* Agree. Thinking back to the WWII Americans. They faced hardships beyond this generations imagining and they overcame through goodness and a belief in right.
What wapo or lat does is no matter when there is nothing good in the world and all hope is extinguished. Look for something as simple as 77 million loss. It suffices.
Yes, nothing left to read that is not corruption.
Bleak
WWII Americans would sh*tcan Trump in a millisecond.
That would be infinitely more time that it would take for them to $hitcan Harris.
“WWII Americans would sh*tcan Trump in a millisecond.”
50 years ago those WWII Americans would be hanging commies like you. And the leaders of your party that have now become home to the New Hitler Youth Movement.
What’s saving you from them now is that most have died and those remaining are mostly in retirement homes while you commie ghouls stand around holding your hands out, demanding your fair share of what they own.
* Yes, there’d have been a real insurrection
* Be serious. Harris? Biden? Beef 25 dollars per pound? Murder? No border? Selling farmland they fought and died for?
Give your mother her phone back. Go mow the lawn.
* Read a bio about the owner of the LA Times. They buy things to finance something else. People or geniuses like Bezos, Musk and Soon really don’t give a single thought to people in the defunct government.
After reading Soon’s bio compare AOC and Crockett with — bleach blond bad body baby girl talk and WH lawn parties.
Yes, leave it at 77 million.
* Guys like this think differently and they do have a certain awe about them. How can they accomplish so much in just one lifetime? It seems 24 hours for them is another person’s week or month.
The brain runs on electricity, the speed of light. Their brains are packed with neural transmitters and the solution to problems can happen instantly. They have employees , loyal employees, who carry out their instructions. That’s how it’s done.
Present the problem of secure elections and ballots to any one of them and instantly there’s a solution. There are extraordinary people in the world.
Someone might try that as the election is in such a shambles.
So buy it yourself, then you can do whatever you want.
What you do not get to do is tell others how they must spend their wealth for your benefit.
* the media domino fall has begun.
* It means Harris loses. The Harris Walz ticket was so bad it got their attention.
The cynic would say, it was supposed to.
It is Halloween and Leftists are largely atheists so witches and spells are of course viable options when it comes to stopping Trump. This from the more educated elite in Democrat circles
🧙♀️👻🎃
Self-proclaimed ‘witches’ say spells won’t work against Trump
https://wjla.com/news/offbeat/self-proclaimed-witches-say-spells-wont-work-on-trump-2024-presidential-election-politics-kamala-harris-tim-walz-jd-vance-magic-witchcraft-salem-halloween#
In fact, one “witch” strongly advised against it, suggesting everyone practice spells in favor of Kamala Harris instead.
“I hate to say this, but don’t do magic against him. He has a form of protection surrounding him that feeds off of magic done against him. You will have better results if you focus your magic on helping his opponent or protecting yourself and others. I wish it would work to bind him or do a freezer spell, but you will only be helping him.”
TL;DR: Witches aren’t what they used to be
Why advertise your stupidity?
Estovir,
HA! That was pretty funny! Good one!
“the Grey Lady came right out of the gate on 10/1, and endorsed Border Czar, Harris.”
Maybe Bezos wants to expand the WaPo franchise to become the “paper of record” for NYC after NYT fails…
He just can’t keep losing money on it. Let’s see if it goes up 4 sale.
This is disturbing. Harris supporter screams F word into face of two year old girl in a stroller. Likely a preview of the unhinged behavior we’re going to see in 10 days when Trump wins.
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1850170325159583998
African American woman steps in and says no, not to a baby. But listen to yet another deranged woman (off camera) cackle loudly in delight. Sick.
When Trump loses I hope you take your life.
In the unlikely event that Trump loses, most of he country will regroup, waiting for the inevitable failure of Harris and the next 5-6% of disilludioned voters to get red pilled until invitably this horor show is over.
The failure of the left is inevitable. It is rooted in the ideology.
The stock market crashes?
John Say,
It is rather amusing watching the leftists try to tell us how great the Biden/Harris admin has been and how bad the Trump one was. And then they wonder why they have no credibility like the NYT, WaPo, NPR.
OT, Israel finds a large Hezbollah military base under a border village, ready for invasion. Some cool footage at the end of blowing up a tunnel system.
Anyone in the Middle East has an easy path to peace: if you don’t want war, don’t attack Israel. Simple as that.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/under-a-lebanese-border-village-idf-finds-huge-hezbollah-base-primed-for-invasion/
Oldman– “Anyone in the Middle East has an easy path to peace: if you don’t want war, don’t attack Israel. Simple as that.”
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Unfortunately, Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran don’t want peace. Neither do thugs now tolerated at our universities. They will beg for a ‘truce’ to allow them to recover and resupply and then attack again. But they want the total destruction of Israel and the death of every Israeli. They say so.
The “two-state solution” is folly. It’s like sleeping with a cobra next to you.
Israel has to finish with these monsters. Nobody who could perpetrate the Oct 7 crimes can be allowed to live. They are worse than the Nazis.
Young, not possible to be worse than them. As bad.
David, I see your point but the Nazis were to some degree sensible that they were committing atrocities. They hid them from the German people. When in retreat they tried to erase the evidence. At Babi Yar they dug up their victims, burned the remains and tried to disguise the evil done there. By contrast the Palestinians celebrated their evil, filmed it for broadcasting to family and friends and their people. Recall they drove through the city with the naked body of a young woman in the back of the truck while ‘civilians’ lining the street cheered. Himmler knew the slaughter of civilians was taking an emotional toll on the souls of those doing the killing and recognized some had to be relieved. Even he admitted it was disturbing to witness. Nothing of that sort shows among the Palestinians. They liked it. They are a degree or two more evil than the Nazis.
Young, I stand corrected.
Even the Nazi’s themselves often recoiled at the evil they were doing.
The earliest German execution squads the Einstaz groups in eastern Europe had massive problems with mental breakedowns, with alcoholism, with suicide, and what we now call PTSD.
The architects of the final solution learned from this and deliberately constructed the camps as death factories where the inmates murdered themselves. The guards kept people from escaping. But all the traumatic parts of genocide were carried out by the jews themselves.
John, entirely true. However not all of the Jews in the camps did it, only the sonderkommandos.
I once attended a lecture by a relatively young man, late 40s estly 50s perhaps, who was taken to Auschwitz when he was about 14 or 15. Before that, however he lived in Poland with his family. The Germans asked for volunteers for a special job that would get money for desperately needed food in his family.
He and other volunteers were driven to some woods and then trucks filled with men and women arrived. They were shot dead and the job of the volunteers was to bury them. When he got home he was so shocked he was unable to speak for days. But, he said, a few weeks later he volunteered again the need for food for his family was so great. He never killed anyone and despised the sonderkommandos.
By chance he barely avoided Birkenau where he would have been killed immediately as his family was. When he was getting his tattoo by another prisoner he asked where his family was and the man sneered, and said “Don’t you know?” And nodded toward chimneys spewing black smoke.
He ended up on work details supervised by Germans and he and other prisoners noticed something odd about one of the Germans. He would scream, rage, pitch loud fits but he would never hit anyone as the other guards did. It was all show by someone who still had a soul. After the war our narrator testified on behalf of that guard at his war crimes trial and he was acquitted. . Our narrator also had a great soul.
At the end he showed his tattoo and asked if anyone in the audience had one. Several did raising their arms to display them.
It was very moving and unforgettable.
Though what John said has a distant relationship to some of the events, it tends to mislead people who are not adequately familiar with what happened. “The guards kept people from escaping” changes the focus and does a disservice to the history of the death camps. The guards did a lot more than to keep people from escaping.
The Germans organized every detail of the genocide and held the weapons and the means to kill the Jews. When Jews were shot, it wasn’t Jews doing the shooting but Germans. When Jews were tortured and experimented on, it wasn’t the Jews doing so.
The Germans developed and implemented the plan to exterminate the Jews. The Germans did this horrible deed, and many Germans paid for it with their souls.
S Meyer–
Agreed. Shockingly it was German doctors at the end of the railway ramp who selected arriving prisoners for either Birkenau and immediate extermination on Auschwitz and work. I think German doctors also dropped Zyklon B into the gas chambers. Robert Lifton has a good book about it, The Nazi Doctors. They didn’t start on the Jewish population. They began with what they regarded as true Germans who had physical or mental defects. They could show up at the home of a family caring for a retarded child and take him away promising the best treatment available without disclosing that in their view the best treatment available was to kill him…mercifully of course.
Some in the West have already edged into that type of atrocity. Progressives of course. There was an incident where a family elected to do away with their mother drifting into dementia…in The Netherlands, I think. She became suspicious and refused to drink the potion offered…not too demented then. The family ended up wrestling with and pining her down as she panicked while the doctor administered the lethal treatment. I wonder what Mother’s Day was like for them after that.
You can still find a current report of a Canadian woman requiring a mastectomy and being offered assisted suicide as a good alternative several times.
This was unthinkable a few decades ago when we were still human.
David,
I should add that the Soviets were as evil as the Nazis. The 20,000 lawyers, professionals, officers and others buried in the Katyn Forest were shot by Soviets and, of course, the Holdomor likely killed more people than the Nazi death camps.
Remember, too, that the Soviet Union entered the war on the side of Nazi Germany. That’s how they ended up with all the Polish intelligentsia they murdered in the Katyn forest.
The Japanese were likely a tad more evil than the Nazis. Read “The Rape of Nanking”. I don’t think the Nazis ever held beheading contests for their amusement. Read, also, “Factories of Death” describing Japanese human experiments, including autopsies on living people, and passing out infected candy to children in villages.
On the other hand I am reassessing Franco. Yes, he could be tough, but while almost the entire world was at war he managed to keep his country and people out of it. That is an accomplishment considering where Spain was. Also, Allied spies and pilots fleeing occupied France aimed for Spain expecting to get back home knowing if they went to Switzerland they would be interned. There is more to that story, I think.
Until he was deposed and reinstated as a german Puppet – Musollini protected Italian (and fleeing) jews from the nazi’s.
Fascism is a failed system of government – but it is not inherently racist or Xenophobic – Facism was invented in Italy – there was a disproportionately large portion of Jews in Italy who were fascist and part of Musollini’s regime.
As you note Franco was fascist. Arguably deGaul andfrench Gaulism are also fascist. Peron was Fascist.
Fascism does not work – state control of the economy does not work. Free Markets will always outperform top down economic planning.
i would further note that post WWII Britian was atleast quasi fascist.
Fascism is a form of socialism – top down economic planning, with private ownership of the means of production – but operating at the direction of govenrment, not the free markets combined with nationalism. Fascism is collectivist with an emphasis on the common good as determined by the state – not liberty, individual rights and freedom.
It is distinct from communism as practiced by the USSR and CCP and most of the countries in the 20th century that identified as communist, in that communism has an international focus, not a nationalist one, and communism is the revolution of the lowest classes – the peasant classes against the highest classes, While Fascism is generally the assumption of power of the administrative class – white collar workers.
John- “communism is the revolution of the lowest classes.”
Not so much, I think. The lowest classes were tools but the evil genius igniting the Revolution were likely further up the social scale. Certainly that was true during the French Revolution which likely might not have happened without Rousseau and lawyers.
DBB of course it is possibel to be worse than the Nazi’s. Try Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot – there are a long list of vile leaders much worse than Hitler and Nazi’s.
Most of us in the West find the Nazi’s completely shocking – but only because they are us.
1930’s germany was the nation of Beethoven, Brahms, Einstein, Bonhoefeer.
Modern Western thought was born there with the reformation and the printing press.
Germany was a civilized country – not Rwanda or Cambodia or our visions of Russia and China.
The horror is not What the Nazi’s did, But that it happened in the west. In one of the most developed and civilized countries in the world.
“The “two-state solution” is folly. It’s like sleeping with a cobra next to you.”
As you know, the two-state solution exists. The British created it when they divided their mandate into trans-Jordan and the yet-named state of Israel.
People should look at Israel as if it were New Jersey and the rest of America as their Arab neighbors that want to kill them and failed trying. The solution would be to cut New Jersey irregularly in half with a center portion that was only 9 miles wide and the southern portion cut away.
S. Meyer–
Good analogy. I would add that the Kingdom of Jordan is now at peace with Israel. I think they and other ME countries are more concerned with Iran than Israel. They know well that Israel isn’t going to attack them without provocation. They are less sure of Iran. For one thing they have that Shiite/Sunni hatred running deep and Iran has already exhibited some Persian Empire ambitions. Then there are the racial differences. Be assured the Iranians are aware of them and tend to think they are superior. The Iranians/Persians are an Indo-Euopean people related to most of Europe. European males are largely Haplogroup R1b and I think Iranians and Kurds are Haplogroup R1a as are the Brahmins of India. Sanscrit, Hindi and Farsi are Indo-European languages in the same family as European languages except for Basque and Finnish. Genetically we trace back to the All Father who was likely some successful savage on the Eurasian Steppe. I think we tend to see ME people as more or less one group but they don’t.
In any event Jordan and Egypt don’t want Palestinians. Creating a Palestinian state [the two state idea] contiguous with Israel is madness. Palestinians likely would agree to it only because it creates more opportunities to murder every Israeli in the world. I think some have said as much. David Horowitz got some female Muslim student to admit as much when he took questions after some lecture.
Pretty funny, a Jew hater like you pretending to be pro-Israel.
Extremely weak move move by the Post, which is of course why you like it, Turls. They’re selling out to trumpism just as you have.
On the business side overall, look for the NY Times to take up the slack and for the Post to go the way of the Washington Beacon.
^ Low IQ troll. Ignore. ^
Lawn Boy shows up with another ARBD nonsense post.
As soon as you see “Turls” you know the writer’s IQ is less than 70.
Lawn Boy’ favorite word is Turls. He cant help himself.
He is also the one posting under other long time commenters names.
its not low IQ. Its HPD, caused by ARBD, from years of day drinking cooking sherry.
The closer we get to a Trump presidency, the more unhinged his behavior becomes.
Just looked up HPD. I think you’re right.
Lawn Boy makes very insightful comments.
I always read his comments.
I agree.
Lawn Boy is one of the best commenters.
I always read Lawn Boy posts.
He makes a lot of sense.
Lawn Boy makes much better comments than most of the others here.
3 more HPD posts
Thanks for the kind comments guys.
This Anonymous is obliviously a mentally impaired loser.
I’m sure you would agree
ignore him.
I agree.
He’s obviously a total loser.
You said it Upstate.
A born loser.
Just ignore him
Lawn Boy, don’t pay attention to this Anonymous.
We have your back.
Keep up the great posts.
Couldn’t agree more.
Keep up the great work, Lawn Boy
Thanks again guys
I really appreciate your support.
Not me. Don’t know who is posting using my moniker.
^^^Fake Young^^^
I did not post that
^^^ Mentally unstable troll ^^^
Ignore
Your mother must be so proud of you, Elvis.
So lame. Lawn boy? WTF is a lawn boy? Someone who services you?
This has been answered many times, troll. Pay attention. I am the day drinking, booger eating commenter previously known as Elvis Bug.
I have HPD, Histrionic Personality Disorder. It is a condition normally found in children, but also seen in adults suffering from ARBD, Alcohol Related Brain Damage. It is characterized by a strong need for attention, even if, and sometimes especially when, it is negative.
I was never told that drinking a gollon of cooking sherry every day for 20 years would cause this.
One of the symptoms is posting anonymously, asking stupid questions, using other peoples handles, and generally acting like a tool.
Kind of like you.
ATS – it is not suprising that those ranting that Trump is a threat to democracy simultaneousy think ordinary people incapable of reaching their own conclusions.
Personally I do not think this is consequential in terms of the election – I do not think most voters give a schiff about endorsements. I think endorsements are fundimentally virtue signaling by those offering them. ‘
Further they are insults to readers – what WaPo readers do not know how to vote without their betters – the teenagers of the woke broke teenagers of the WaPo writers guild telling them how to vote ?
I beleive Bezos, and Lewis offered the editorial staff the option of doing a point by point comparison between the candidates on each of their respective platforms. But the staff declined.
While most of us are capable of reading the each of the candidates and parties respective platforms and again deciding for ourselves – a side by side point by point comparison is a legitimate value that WaPo could deliver readers.
I do not know that this is really a return to its roots by WaPo.
But it is a wise choice by Bezos and Lewis.
WaPo like much of the media has pissed all over its crediblity.
This is a TINY step in the right direction towards restoring it.
As to Oligarchy – Bezos owns WaPo – as Lewis previously told writers- no one is going to give them millions to destroy the value and readership of their paper for long.
I doubt Bezos would give a schiff who the Paper endorsed if the reputation of WaPo was what it was in the 70’s,
and if WaPo was making money hand over first.
What is increasingly self evident is that Woke garbage does not sell.
And it does not work in the real world, and only clueless children who desparately need spanked by the real world do not understand that.
John Say,
Great comment!
WaPo aside, Kamala is on video saying she wants government oversight of social media. She really is lunatic left, kind of an aspiring Hitler herself.
I suspect there already is significant ‘government oversight’ of WaPo, NYT, LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc, etc. It can’t be an accident that they all begin to use the preferred buzz words at the same time” “weird” “testy” “Hitler” and on and on and on. Pravda in the old Soviet Union never had it so good, Nor, for that matter did Völkischer Beobachter.
https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/1849971962644426875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1849971962644426875%7Ctwgr%5E372497221dc2d06afcff8135dca2ecbf18c57f20%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F680169%2F
Come to think of it, some of our media is beginning to sound a lot like Le Père Duchesne, I think they are hoping to get President Trump killed with their reckless accusations and proposals. Who is feeding that theme to them” ‘Government oversight?”
* Who told scammala to say that? WaPo and Graham were in the same hut back with Woodward and Bernstein stooges. What’s changed…
You are emblematic of the destruction of conservatism. Now we have people like you, totally re***ded populists (look up Mussolini supporters), pretending to be conservatives.
Mussolini and his supporters were socialists. Mussolini said as much. You might also consider reading the diary of Count Ciano, Mussolini’s son-in-law. They were in no way conservative in the American sense. Just the opposite, in fact. They would have made fairly believable Democrats however.
Factual news will not change but the interpretation of facts by partisan journalists may when their pocketbook hurts. Now the question is how to separate fact from option of fact. Currently AP lists certain verbs and adjectives that are not acceptable but yet can turn a factual story line into an expletive of obscene loyalty to the Democratic Parties Nirvana. Most AP stories have a heavy slant, turning the needle left when positive and right when negative and where all neutrally is tossed out the window along with their objectivity and moral character. I say this because the greatest risk to Americas future are companies like Reuters, AP, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft, Bloomberg, FOX, New Corp just to name a few. Regardless of who owns what and their political persuasion, paper news will be considered a Dinosaur in the near future.
George W.
Well said and I agree. I noted earlier The Free Press, to which I am a paid subscriber to, has over three quarters of a million paid subscribers and are well on their way to becoming a million subscribers. They are doing so well they have been able to hire more journalists and editors. Them, and other alternative media like them will replace MSM in the near future. That is why MSM and the DNC are freaking out. With out an audience to propagandize to, they lose “total control” of the narrative.
Media rushing to commit suicide (“These reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias”), Black-outs in Cuba (indeed collapse of the country’s entire infrastructire), National Socialism in Germany (what Joseph Goebbels had in mind when he so faithfully served Adolph Hitler has been mentioned). While we are at it let’s include China (the sole purpose of the Chinese Communist Party is to stay in power), dysfunctional US Cities (New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and yes, Washington).
What do they all have in common? Ideology! It is not merely that virtually all of our national institutions have become an “effective state media” but that the script is solely from the “Left.”
Thank you for pointing this out Professor Turley. Your are the Only Democrat I trust.
Trump up by 11 percentage points among Latinos. This is yuuuuge!
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/latino-community-going-head-over-heels-trump-goya-ceo-claims-were-fed-up-being-exploited
The trust in the media is low because the Republicans have spent so long bashing them with their lying orange stained lips. Having billionaire owners censor the Editorial Board’s endorsement won’t help at all.
No Sammy. Trust in the media is because of their obvious bias, the way they have been lying to the American people on behalf of the DNC. If someone needs an editorial board to make the decision for them of who to vote for, does not say much about that person or the new paper they are reading.
Upstate, Sammy is chief editor of the Sour Grapes page at WaPo.
Sammy Metamucil, please name the states that have mandatory voter photo ID that dont offer it for free.
^^^Mentally unstable troll^^^
Ignore
Lawn Boy, ARBD afflicted troll^^^
Dont ignore, ridicule him. He needs it to feed his HPD. Without it, he is a suicide risk.
“The trust in the media is low because the Republicans have spent so long bashing them with their lying orange stained lips.”
Sammy… still sucking shyte from Biden and Harris’s anuses… and then passing it back out those same lips to post it here.
Anybody who thinks Sammy is fit company for human beings probably believes you can pick up a turd by the clean end.
“Actress on ‘The Brady Bunch’ says reboot of show won’t happen due to her being a conservative”
https://justthenews.com/nation/culture/actress-brady-bunch-says-reboot-show-wont-happen-due-her-being-conservative
“Actress Susan Olsen, who played Cindy on the hit show “The Brady Bunch,” said that a reboot will not be happening due to her being a conservative.”
Collectivist BS is another media network ch1tchute that needs to be abandoned, go belly-up, float to the surface, and rot away to oblivion.
“This is cowardice, with democracy as its casualty.”
Wrong.
Our republic is the casualty, with democracy, as it is currently practiced, its killer.
Dear Prof Turley,
Yeah, that’s big of WaPo – political neutrality – if such a thing is possible. Better late than never, I guess. If only they would apply such objective neutrality in their reporting on U.S. military involvement in Ukraine and Israel .. . and around the world.
This is the 21st century. .. and no nation is an Island.
But the damage has already been done. Evidently, WaPo journalists are in full revolt, and I’m concerned my own brother and other close friends are not ‘mentally prepared’ for a Trump Second Coming.
*If Trump wins, I fear Steven Colbert will set himself on fire in front of a live audience on Broadway.
“I fear Steven Colbert will set himself on fire in front of a live audience on Broadway.”
Not high on my list of concerns; he doesn’t have the spine to do such a thing. Although I would pay good money to watch that.
“Democracy dies in darkness” is now “Democracy dies in the open” And Trump is proving it everyday with his words, and so-called newspapers and news services are helping with the aid of billionaires who could care less about democracy, as long as they keep their fortunes.
Fishstick, you see Trump went on the Joe Rogan Experience and they did an unscripted three hour session?
And while Democracy dies in the darkness, seem the WaPo cannot stand the light of the truth.
Did you read the Trump interview with Hugh Hewitt? When asked,
HH: Will you pardon Hunter Biden?
DT: I wouldn’t take it off the books. See, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they’ve done to me, where they’ve gone after me so viciously, despite what, and Hunter’s a bad boy. There’s no question about it. He’s been a bad boy. All you had to do is see the laptop from hell. But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.
^This must be the imposter Upstate
the real one wouldn’t disrespect someone’s screen name
it would be uncivilized.
You are correct.
That was not me.
I would never indulge in juvenile, elementary school level name calling.
People who indulge in such behavior have realized that their arguments have been lost, so they have to resort to this nonsense.
UpstateFarmer
Not a good idea to resort to name calling and insults.
Try to keep it civilized.
Insults are the last refuge of a fool.
Name calling and insults are ingrained in the MAGA cult.
They are simply following their leader.
It is the price of admission
Give your mom her phone back and go clean your room
^^^Mentally unstable troll^^^
Ignore
Throughout this blog – those on the left insult everyone else by calling them the most revolting and childish names in addition to politica name calling such as Nazi, Fascist, Hitler – all things that very very few on the right actual are.
While for the most part those on the left are insulted by being described EXACTLY as they are.
^^^ Fake John Say ^^^
I did not post the above.
I never post less than 25,000 word comments.
Anything less than 25,000 words is posted by an imposter.
Says the idiot Lawn Boy, while posting less than 25k words
John Say,
Absolutely correct. Fishstick earned his name.
OK, UpstateFacist
Insults are the last refuge of a fool.
Poor lad has never read any Shakespeare.
^^^Fake oldmanfromkansas^^^
That is not me.
Freedom and liberty are always just one generation away from extinction.
Ronald Reagan
FW – I have zero problems with the lefts claim that Trump is seekinvg to destroy democracy – and I will cheer him on.
This country is not and never was a democracy. Democracy is just about the most tyranical form of govenrment there is.
The declaration of independence asserts the purpose – not only of this government – but ALL governments.
That is to secure the rights of its citizens. Not to do the will of the majority.
The US constitution is a blueprint for a form of government that attempts to actualize that objective.
Nowhere in the declaration is the word democracy.
Nowhere in the constitution is the word democracy.
Nor is it just the absence of the word.
The declaration and the constitution are entirely devoid of the key principles of actual democracy.
In the declaration and the constitution – the common good is the OUTCOME of individual liberty.
Not the product of the will and whim of the majority
Individual rights and democracy are near polar oposites.
The left has spent the past 250 years trying to tun the US into a majoritarian democracy.
I doubt that Trump can dismember all of that in 4 years. But I will be happy to see him do so to whatever extent he possibility can.
I care greatly about “democracy” – I want all of the left wing nut experiments in democracy striped from this nation, and a limited constitutional republic focused on the rights of individuals restored.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Adam Smith
This year … no matter that harris/walz are the Ds on the ballot; even the WaPo cannot bring itself to endorse them. The future? Just wait until 2028 to see if it is true to its “word” about no more endorsements when (depending on the top of the ticket) another election is taking place.
It is the owner of the Post who does not want to endorse, the Editorial Board, which does the endorsements, was strongly Harris.
MAGAs can’t stop lying.
The paper belongs to Bezos – not the editorial board, not the Wapo Writers Guild.
The employees of WaPo are free to endorse whoever they wish – on their own, or with the paper they own.
I have little doubt that if the employees of WaPo can come up with the money – Bezos will be happy to sell this albatros to them.
And they can endorse whoever they want.
But so long as they are taking welfare from the 2nd richest man in the world – they can do their jobs as HE perscribes.
Or they can make their way out the door wherever they want.
Exactly. Endorsing KH would not age well, particularly if she should win. If she ends up in the WH, anybody who endorsed her is going to be really embarrassed. And Will Lewis, who is a relatively sensible man, knows this.
On the other hand, the Grey Lady came right out of the gate on 10/1, and endorsed Border Czar, Harris.