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The Washington Post has existed for 140 years and has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It's the newspaper that broke Watergate. You can acknowledge a news source for it

The Washington Post has existed for 140 years and has won 47 Pulitzer Prizes. It's the newspaper that broke Watergate. You can acknowledge a news source for its editorial bias and still trust it not to print outright falsehoods on a regular basis. The Wall Street Journal is editorially right-leaning but that doesn't mean I think it prints lies, I will trust it regarding statements of objective fact up to the point that you can trust any news source (of course both WaPo and WSJ flub stories and have to make retractions from time to time, journalists are humans).

hiram112 9y ago
The Washington Post, IMO, has taken a serious dive in the past few years. Unlike the NYTimes and WSJ, WAPO has simply become another click-bait, hit-piece site like Salon or Buzzfeed. It's shameless.
- aalleavitch 9y ago
  I disagree, it has very much been on the ball regarding its investigative reporting this year. The editorials have been the same constant stream of hysterics you see everywhere else, but they've broken some fantastic articles regarding disinformation campaigns with hard fact-based reporting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kremlin-trolls-burned-across-the-internet-as-washington-debated-options/2017/12/23/e7b9dc92-e403-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.9b2cedace7e3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kreml...
belorn 9y ago
I don't doubt that they stays to the facts, but I also don't trust them to tell the truth. Let me take an example story that was printed in most news papers after the election. Two facts: The number of new articles written during the election about the Clinton email scandal was twice as many as the Trump tape scandal, but news papers also wrote more than twice as much about the Trump tape scandal than the Clinton email scandal. Both are factual true, but any conclusion made on them is akin to falsehoods because they leave out the necessary context. What is missing is time, as in that news paper wrote about the Clinton email scandal the whole 6 months that the study looked at, while the Trump audio tape scandal was earthed only one month before the election date. As such looking at articles per day while each scandal was new, the trump scandal created significant more articles than any other month, while the long duration of the email scandal created a much higher total number of articles than those of the single month that the audio tapes were discussed. But it is not news to say that an event stretched over 6 months can create more articles than a single month, or that the last month of an election generates a lot of news articles. It is something a Wikipedia article might mention to balance a paragraph, but it do not generate clicks from a political targeted audience. Lying by omission is technically not an outright falsehood, and they aren't required to make retractions to fix it, so both sides instead paints them selves as victims of the media and media is happy to write articles about it that tailors to their matching demographic. Money is gained and all that is lost is trust.

hiram112 9y ago

The Washington Post, IMO, has taken a serious dive in the past few years. Unlike the NYTimes and WSJ, WAPO has simply become another click-bait, hit-piece site like Salon or Buzzfeed. It's shameless.

aalleavitch 9y ago
I disagree, it has very much been on the ball regarding its investigative reporting this year. The editorials have been the same constant stream of hysterics you see everywhere else, but they've broken some fantastic articles regarding disinformation campaigns with hard fact-based reporting. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kremlin-trolls-burned-across-the-internet-as-washington-debated-options/2017/12/23/e7b9dc92-e403-11e7-ab50-621fe0588340_story.html?utm_term=.9b2cedace7e3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/kreml...

belorn 9y ago

I don't doubt that they stays to the facts, but I also don't trust them to tell the truth. Let me take an example story that was printed in most news papers after the election. Two facts: The number of new articles written during the election about the Clinton email scandal was twice as many as the Trump tape scandal, but news papers also wrote more than twice as much about the Trump tape scandal than the Clinton email scandal. Both are factual true, but any conclusion made on them is akin to falsehoods because they leave out the necessary context. What is missing is time, as in that news paper wrote about the Clinton email scandal the whole 6 months that the study looked at, while the Trump audio tape scandal was earthed only one month before the election date. As such looking at articles per day while each scandal was new, the trump scandal created significant more articles than any other month, while the long duration of the email scandal created a much higher total number of articles than those of the single month that the audio tapes were discussed. But it is not news to say that an event stretched over 6 months can create more articles than a single month, or that the last month of an election generates a lot of news articles. It is something a Wikipedia article might mention to balance a paragraph, but it do not generate clicks from a political targeted audience. Lying by omission is technically not an outright falsehood, and they aren't required to make retractions to fix it, so both sides instead paints them selves as victims of the media and media is happy to write articles about it that tailors to their matching demographic. Money is gained and all that is lost is trust.