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> Study finds correlation. Article mentions caveat that correlation is not causation. Headline explicitly states causation. Welcome to the Washington Post. In
by grandalf 9y ago
> Study finds correlation. Article mentions caveat that correlation is not causation. Headline explicitly states causation.
Welcome to the Washington Post. In cases like this it's fairly obvious but across the board there is such a low standard for journalism that I can't bring myself to pay the $1 to subscribe.
When Bezos bought it I had hoped we'd see a new era of high quality American journalism, but the opposite trend has occurred.
- opportune 9y agoWaPo is 50% Trump and 50% a moderately better version of buzzfeed.
- grandalf 9y agoAgreed. It's truly amazing that one of the world's richest men would buy one of America's great papers and allow it to abandon basic journalistic standards. In a sense this amounts to an act of sabotage. At first, I thought it was meant to be an insurance policy against politicians turning against Amazon, but now I have doubts about whether Bezos wishes the paper to do actual journalism.