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Baitball Blogger

(48,871 posts) Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:49 PM Jan 17

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So, should we call the Washington Post's new form of journalism,

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So, should we call the Washington Post's new form of journalism, (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Jan 17 OP

Gigo Autumn Jan 17 #1

Fish wrap wanking ..... nt DoBW Jan 17 #2

Is this in reference to some particular article? nt LAS14 Jan 17 #3

It's an article in the nYT which needs a subscription to see it. Baitball Blogger Jan 17 #4

Archive. littlemissmartypants Jan 17 #5

Oh, look! ... littlemissmartypants Jan 17 #6

It's more of a rah-rah pamphlet in my humble opinion. Hugin Jan 17 #7

We're living through a terrible time in history. Baitball Blogger Jan 17 #8

It's not even interesting... Hugin Jan 17 #9

Orange Journalism Norbert Jan 17 #10

Oh, yeah... Seconded! Hugin Jan 17 #11

RightWing Lie Machine blm Jan 17 #12

Autumn

(46,997 posts)

1. Gigo

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:53 PM

Jan 17

Garbage in garbage out.

DoBW

(2,207 posts)

2. Fish wrap wanking ..... nt

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:56 PM

Jan 17

LAS14

(14,904 posts)

3. Is this in reference to some particular article? nt

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 07:58 PM

Jan 17

Baitball Blogger

(48,871 posts)

4. It's an article in the nYT which needs a subscription to see it.

Reply to LAS14 (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:13 PM

Jan 17

(I don't have one) But the gist of their article is that they're going to switch to riveting story-telling. Whatever that is.

Since their best journalists are leaving and Bezo and the editor are stifling anything that is pro-progressive, I am making assumptions that they're going to eventually start calling themselves an entertainment service and will start spreading propaganda like Fox news.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html

littlemissmartypants

(26,351 posts)

5. Archive.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:34 PM

Jan 17

https://archive.ph/

Try it.

littlemissmartypants

(26,351 posts)

6. Oh, look! ...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #4)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:36 PM

Jan 17

https://archive.ph/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washington-post-new-mission.html

It's already been archived six times!

No pay wall. Six times! Yay!

Hugin

(35,198 posts)

7. It's more of a rah-rah pamphlet in my humble opinion.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:54 PM

Jan 17

Verging on Retrumplican Porn.

Baitball Blogger

(48,871 posts)

8. We're living through a terrible time in history.

Reply to Hugin (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 08:59 PM

Jan 17

Hugin

(35,198 posts)

9. It's not even interesting...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Reply #8)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:01 PM

Jan 17

We were promised interesting times, dammit!

Norbert

(6,707 posts)

10. Orange Journalism

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Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:06 PM

Jan 17

Hugin

(35,198 posts)

11. Oh, yeah... Seconded!

Reply to Norbert (Reply #10)

Fri Jan 17, 2025, 09:07 PM

Jan 17

Nice, very nice.

blm

(113,917 posts)

12. RightWing Lie Machine

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Fri Jan 17, 2025, 10:08 PM

Jan 17

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