I know I’m not telling anyone anything new here, but this is a massive “Show me who you really are” moment for America’s mainstream media institutions: Faced with a naked authoritarian power grab, the Washington Post has decided to look for ways to normalize rather than oppose the regime.
The Washington Post editorial board: 1+1=5
This isn’t just a craven act of political cowardice and accommodation. It’s fundamentally also a failure at the basic journalistic task of adequately informing the public. We all know this isn’t about Trump fighting crime in DC. They are actively and deliberately propagating nonsense.
I cancelled my WaPo subscription last November after is was clear Bozos was kneeling to Trump like a little pissant.
NPR just treated this as a crime fighting measure, featuring the police chief of D.C. (who should be immediately fired) praising the deployment of the U.S. military into the streets of a U.S. city, and getting “man on the street” takes on the deployment.
It made me physically ill.
ye this is bad framing. “high-profile incidents of violence” dont “underscore” the problem, they exaggerate the problem and make it seem worse than it is. and of course the Foxes and Newsmaxes exacerbate this by scaring the Olds
They've already shown us. Even NPR, which should theoretically be independent of oligarchs. airbagmoments.wordpress.com/2017/04/29/m...
NPR Must Do Better In The Age of Trump This post has two primary purposes: I’ll debunk NPR’s argument that journalists should not use the word “lie” to describe false statem…
Well, I mean --- Bezos.
Just checked Inqy, and was disappointed to see no headlines about D.C.
Chicago Tribune has one D.C.-related headline, focusing on the homeless.
Boston Globe has a story on Maddow blasting the deployment in D.C., an op-ed defending Trump, and one about 'rising autocracy'.
Nobody feels safe. It's not about the crime but the perception of crime. The media and politicians gain nothing by making us feel safe.
"Many residents still don't feel safe"
Until they can control the entire world.
Every time someone writes the Washington Post, they should say Bezos Washington Post, because that’s the difference.
You know why people 'feel' unsafe despite the drop in crime? Because Bezos and fox keep telling them they are.
It's Bezos, pure and simple. Is it "mainstream" when it's all to the whim of a single oligarch?
They already showed us who they are a long time ago: media whores. And the sooner we acknowledge that they aren't actually good guys in disguise the better off we will be.
The oligarchy media has been in on it from the beginning. It was very noticeable in the months leading into the election. They wanted Trump to be President. Apparently they still do. I can't make it make sense.
“High profile”, as opposed to that which happens to everyday, regular people, which we can’t be bothered with.
cancelled subscription/have not for one minute missed WAPO. Let's put more numbers on the board. the worst they can do is call "cancel culture" or, if, say, another 10,000 of us cancel subs, maybe we'll be designated terrorists.
I'm not a journalist, but seems like it should be fairly simple to communicate the exact same information in a way that underscores how stupid Trump's actions are 🤷♂️
“High-profile incidents of violence” = Big Balls got beat up by two 15yo’s, instead of thousands of people who missed out on the opportunity.
One reason why I didn't renew my subscription to the WP.
This is spiraling out of sanity
Who owns the WPost now . . . an authoritarian whose decisions have resulted in an exodus. www.npr.org/2025/01/04/n...
Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned after an editor rejected her sketch satirizing tech chiefs, including the Post's owner and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
That’s why I don’t have a subscription anymore.
I loved WAPO for many years. Not anymore
Bezos is a clown 🤡 And a sniveling liar/coward SOB.
The asymmetry in reporting is stunning. In the “free speech” era, every crackpot right wing meme was reported ad nauseum, most directed at Biden & Dems.
Now, quiet conformance knowing DJT/MAGA will bar them, sue them, or make them suffer, all to propagate their regime.
This reality is everywhere.
I cancelled my subscription when Philip Bump took the buyout. His was one of the few progressive voices and I took his departure as a harbinger of things to come. I was inadvertently prescient.
Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Jeff Bezos has decided to look for ways to normalize rather than oppose the regime.
Reason #1,001 I canceled my WaPo subscription.
Does not feel safe =/= crime is out of control
The betrayers are all getting exposed by the evils of this administration.
More like the Bezos Post!
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