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> Washington Post becoming a shadow of itself The Post was always terrible, always extremely conservative, and always blatantly mixed editorial in with its new
by pessimizer 1y ago
> Washington Post becoming a shadow of itself
The Post was always terrible, always extremely conservative, and always blatantly mixed editorial in with its news reporting (unlike most other outlets in the past.) A bunch of anti-Trump people decided it was movement liberal because it didn't like Trump (like every other Republican and Republican outlet until people started voting them out over it.)
WaPo was the most right-wing non-tabloid major paper in the country other than the WSJ before Bezos, the only thing that changed afterwards was that the headlines became more linkbait (5 minutes earlier than every other paper) and their coverage of Bezos properties became lighter.
The idea that the WaPo was ever anything but rabidly capitalist is nonsense.
- senderista 1y ago> always extremely conservative You have a pretty idiosyncratic definition of "conservative"
- platevoltage 1y agothe definition of conservative has changed drastically over the last couple decades.
- jandrese 1y agoIn the past the articles were reasonably objective. The editorial section was always to the right of Attila the Hun.
- terminalshort 1y agoWho knew that Attila the Hun was basically the ancient version of Elizabeth Warren?
- terminalshort 1y agoThe typical "we have two right wing parties." It's a stupid pedantic thing people on the left like to do.
- bpt3 1y agoIt's really the people on the far left, who think that way, way more than 10% of the US is progressive or socialist/communist and wonder why they can't win any elections.
- terminalshort 1y agoYes, I should have said that instead of just "left". Most center left Democrats don't do this.
- senderista 1y agoBecause "left" and "right" only have meaning within a particular nation's politics.
- metabagel 1y agoI would say that the Washington Post was pretty centrist before Bezos decided to target MAGA readers. They were planning to endorse Kamala Harris before Bezos quashed it.
- platevoltage 1y agoAmazing that they have any paid subscribers after this happened.