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 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.
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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 do this to everything they touch unless it actively increases their perversely obscene wealth.
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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 Question is: Should I cancel my subscription? Or keep 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.
So very sory for your loss. I grew up in Bethesda. The Post was the first daily paper I ever read.
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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 Born in 1950, revered journalism as a noble profession, I weep at how low the mighty-'WaPo, the Grey Lady, CBS news especially--have fallen. I knew them at their best.
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@pascaline @dtm @anneapplebaum Mike Tomasky at The New Republic is fighting the good fight. I cancelled the WAPO the day Bezos interfered and have since subscribed to the TNR. I get the Atlantic from a neighbour.
New media ownership model needed - and Substack isn't it.
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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.
@dtm The Guardian has a good, independent US edition.
@pascaline @anneapplebaum -
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.
We are all learning by direct experience, the real substance of fascism that inflicted Europe a century ago.
What you experience has also been experienced by scientist in their own research as well.
My hope for many of these journalist is that they can go on to do something like Medhi Hasan, where they can form their own outlet and become more powerful than before.
Yet we have to sit with the fact that history is rhyming, and we are unfortunate to live through it
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@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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@anneapplebaum Question is: Should I cancel my subscription? Or keep it?
I would cancel. Tell Bezos he fucked up
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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.
@dtm @pascaline @anneapplebaum
If you want on the ground reporting look to Status Coup . And for investigative journalism, the kind of stuff 60 minutes did look to more perfect union.
There’s still PBS but beyond that “Democracy Now!”
“Current Affairs” as quite nice for commentary, along with Patrick Boyle.
There is a very rich variety of great publications I think we’re going to have to adapt to a roster of them.
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@anneapplebaum social media did that! DC not a powerful revenue
It's a newspaper, not a revenue stream.
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@pascaline @dtm @anneapplebaum Mike Tomasky at The New Republic is fighting the good fight. I cancelled the WAPO the day Bezos interfered and have since subscribed to the TNR. I get the Atlantic from a neighbour.
New media ownership model needed - and Substack isn't it.
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@pascaline Me too! @dtm @anneapplebaum
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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 Well, Bezos is one of the Tech-Oligarchs and probably thinks that Ai-generated slop is good enough for peasants like us.
