I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years.
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@anneapplebaum I’m so bummed that I no longer have the NYT or the WaPo as reliable papers of record. I can no longer support either one. All I have left is The Atlantic.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
It's all bewildering to behold.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I have missed it since I unsubscribed a few years ago.
Something something means of production.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum We need to figure out how to make new, reliable news sources, ones that aren’t controlled by asshat billionaires who will gleefully smash them like toys in service of their profits and their delicate egos.
People are creating smaller, indie news outlets, but we have a ways to go before we are adequately threatening the mainstream slop.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I'm so sorry for your loss, Anne. I'm 52, and a lifelong Northern Virginian who grew up reading whichever sections of the Post my parents were done with. I know times are tough for print media, but to see my hometown paper be needlessly eviscerated is a tragedy.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum its a smooth transition to a dictatorship, we had it in Germany in 1933
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
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There are others doing important journalism but they tend to be long-term investigative pieces that are often not all that obviously accessible or relevant to most people. They are not a substitute for a paper of record. They’re more like magazines. I’m also really resistant to video. I’ve never been a fan of TV news. Moving it to YouTube doesn’t help.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Obviously a symptomatic collapse of Capitalism. Would you 'underwrite' #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries, that are more sustainable?
Not as much of a priority as root infrastructure scientists as critical, founding mass; but important tertiary development in-and-around the metrics.
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There are others doing important journalism but they tend to be long-term investigative pieces that are often not all that obviously accessible or relevant to most people. They are not a substitute for a paper of record. They’re more like magazines. I’m also really resistant to video. I’ve never been a fan of TV news. Moving it to YouTube doesn’t help.
I can't always read the long pieces, and video is a drag most often. So much is just someone saying what they think and I prefer to read that instead of watching someone talk.
I read AlJazeera and Reuters, and The Guardian, if I want daily news instead of long pieces.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Washington Post and all free press has to die so that fascism can live
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Billionaires are the ruin of this world due to their egotistical and narcissistic views.
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I can't always read the long pieces, and video is a drag most often. So much is just someone saying what they think and I prefer to read that instead of watching someone talk.
I read AlJazeera and Reuters, and The Guardian, if I want daily news instead of long pieces.
I’m the same. I check out AP in the morning to see the headlines. There’s so much less actual news than we are led to believe that the headlines are usually enough. There’s a ton of perpetual recapping going on that is not at all helpful to my anxiety. The problem with video is that they are disincentivized for brevity. They take a paragraph of news and make it a 30 minute diatribe.
I also use Guardian and AJ. I read about a third of the stories from Atlantic.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I’m sorry, Anne. I mourn with you.
But I wonder if this isn’t also a good thing, taking away a platform from Bezos?
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum yes. It's a sad decline from the likes of Woodward and Bernstein exposing a conspiracy and bringing down a crooked president, to this isn't it.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
This is why journalism -and almost everything needed to make life livable- is incompatable with the share holder model @anneapplebaum
The profit motive is a death cult. Schools, papers of record, hospitals, public utilities all of them flattened into 2D vehicles for enrichment. Their intended purposes become obstacles to uninterrupted ROI.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
Democracy dies in Darkness
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Tying any portion of your ego or identity to your employer is a toxic habit that American employers encourage at every turn to make it harder to act as free humans when necessary.
"Good" and "commercial" are mutually exclusive in the long term.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum social media did that! DC not a powerful revenue
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I've lived in DC since 1989 {edit: since 1984, 1989 in this house] and find it heartbreaking. But I've felt that way since late 2024, so I'm getting used to it, sadly.
