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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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 Was the Post occasionally speaking truth to power? Then, sadly, I suspect you need look no further, powerful people wanted it gone and powerful people had the money to make that happen
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@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.
@anneapplebaum @mister_shade02X2 Cooperatives aren't generally susceptible to billionaire buyouts, and they are incentivized to serve their members instead of the false god "Profit".
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@dtm @pascaline @anneapplebaum @GhostOnTheHalfShell Thanks, I'll have to check these out! I'm familiar with Democracy Now but not the others
@hosford42 @dtm @pascaline @anneapplebaum
More perfect union is amazing
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@anneapplebaum its a smooth transition to a dictatorship, we had it in Germany in 1933
@anneapplebaum @omimesis All that fantasizing we did culturally about what we would do if Nazis tried here, only to learn that many people here are downright *eager* to help them, and the vibes from those in positions of power are almost casual, "business as usual". I hope we have a really well-preserved list of the bootlickers and collaborators this time around, at least.
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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 tire of their toys once they get what they want from it.
In this case, WaPo helped get Biff elected. That was the plan because he wants to protect his $$
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@OvertonDoors @anneapplebaum @gotofritz
How do you think those billionaires came to exist in the first place?
It is the shareholder model that sits at the root of the problem. If all corporations were run as cooperatives instead of extractive, for-profit, publicly traded entities that concentrate wealth by taking it away from workers and customers, billionaires couldn't exist in the first place. Buyouts wouldn't happen. Worker exploitation and price gouging and ad-driven revenue wouldn't be incentivized. Thanks to not being constantly exploited and stolen from, people would have enough money in their pockets to casually contribute to news agencies they share ownership in.
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@dtm @anneapplebaum @pascaline Reuters is so ad laden I can barely wade through it, and sometimes abandon the story halfway through. I find it impossible to read with things moving on the page that can't be hidden, and this is further exacerbated by popup ads.
I saw something about US politicians trying to ban Al Jazeera. I don't know how much substance there was to it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The Guardian is good. Interesting that I saw an article recently about OpenAI using it almost exclusively for news sourcing for their bot, and people crying foul because it supposedly made them liberally biased. lol
Try the AP app. Clean and simple. Basic news. Very straightforward.
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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 It is the hallmark of dictatorships: "First, take control of the judiciary with your followers; then seize the media with the help of your friends; finally, create your own truth by destroying science!"@torclyn
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@dtm @anneapplebaum @pascaline Reuters is so ad laden I can barely wade through it, and sometimes abandon the story halfway through. I find it impossible to read with things moving on the page that can't be hidden, and this is further exacerbated by popup ads.
I saw something about US politicians trying to ban Al Jazeera. I don't know how much substance there was to it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The Guardian is good. Interesting that I saw an article recently about OpenAI using it almost exclusively for news sourcing for their bot, and people crying foul because it supposedly made them liberally biased. lol
I turn most scripts off, so that helps. And that top Dianomi or whatever it was is outlawed here, so I don't see it.
But the top menu though MY GOD it just hovers over the page as soon as you look at it. It has been an annoyance for years! -
@dtm @anneapplebaum @pascaline Reuters is so ad laden I can barely wade through it, and sometimes abandon the story halfway through. I find it impossible to read with things moving on the page that can't be hidden, and this is further exacerbated by popup ads.
I saw something about US politicians trying to ban Al Jazeera. I don't know how much substance there was to it, but I wouldn't be surprised.
The Guardian is good. Interesting that I saw an article recently about OpenAI using it almost exclusively for news sourcing for their bot, and people crying foul because it supposedly made them liberally biased. lol
Quite a while ago The Guardian decided to use Ai for some articles and so on, and they once published an article that was completely written by Ai. I was disappointed at their decision at the time.
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@gotofritz @anneapplebaum
@hosford42Even if it's just one shareholder -especially when- the ownership model breaks down. Let's be honest. Bezos has no personal interest in seeing the WaPo continue its mission. He used the fucked system of ownership to insulate himself from the violence he was intent upon causing. The handful of previous owners used the same system to get rich knowing what would happen to the WaPo.
The man dropped what amounts to pocket change for him on a purchase made with bad intent. He bought it like a cheap car with the explicit goal being running the WaPo into the ground. So now that the pistons are thrown and the axle is broke he's throwing the keys in the mud and walking away.
A family gets together and decides to sell their youngest daughter to a pimp.
The pimp abuses her, sells her out, and within a year the youngest daughter is a husk of a person who is handed off to the black market for organ harvesting. That's where we are right now. Maybe your indifferent to it, but it disgusts me. -
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.
While simultaneously the entire country has been destroyed in less time than that. Yeah is it definitely devastating. The are gutting and prepping us for a long period of total hell.
