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Good reason not to subscribe to the WP.
by adamc 2y ago
Good reason not to subscribe to the WP.
- null0pointer 2y agoWhy?
- adamc 2y agoI don't want to read a newspaper where the owner is suppressing -- well, anything -- because of concerns for how it might affect his fortune. I want the owner walled off.
- Thuggery 2y agoWell you have been. The consent was always being manufactured. A certain controversial fellow by the name of Chomsky pointed out decades ago that media would inevitably reflect biases of their owners and staff, and the needs to be a for profit business. It would seem you didn't care or notice because there previously wasn't an opinion conflict with the owners.
- adamc 2y agoEverything ever written reflects biases. That isn't the interesting part.
- topspin 2y agoThere you are! The correct response. Should this not fall under the "private company, do what they want" mantra we were all so fond of wrt (pre-Musk...) Twitter, Facebook, et al? The further advice then was; "make your own social media platform." Same thing happened at LA times a few days ago, also replete with an editor quitting, when owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked the same Kamala endorsement. You're free to not subscribe, some editor or other is free to quit, and owners are free to do as they please with their private property. Freedom. What a great idea.
- metabagel 2y agoWe also have the freedom to gripe about it. That is also the correct response.
- cryptonector 2y agoI think GP is asking for consistency.
- 0xy 2y agoYou didn't draw that conclusion when WaPo lied about Russians hacking US electrical infrastructure, sabre rattling for war, then retracting the entire story when it was proved they fabricated the story? One of the authors of the faked story is still employed by WaPo, by the way. It's only bad when they refuse to bend to your political orthodoxy, not when they knowingly print dangerous and false stories about nation state hacks (eerily similar to NYT's lies about WMDs in Iraq) -- something likely to drag the world to war again.
- adamc 2y agoYawn. No newspaper is immune to reporters making stuff up.