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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@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.
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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.
The vast majority of billionaires are like very sick cats. They shit in their own nests over and over until they abandon them.
Then move on to shit somewhere else.
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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's horrible on so many levels. Especially since I suspect Bezos bought it with the purpose of killing it.
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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.
@samueljohnson @pascaline @anneapplebaum Agree with all that.
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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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@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.
Same. It's literally a crying shame.
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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 welcome to what fascism does to its media
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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.
@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
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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.
Washington Post Mortem
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@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.
@dtm @pascaline @anneapplebaum @GhostOnTheHalfShell Thanks, I'll have to check these out! I'm familiar with Democracy Now but not the others
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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
