Posted on 08/30/2022 5:48:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If you were to ask most conservatives what the worst newspaper in the country is, you’d get a lot of arguments between The New York Times and The Washington Post. But, despite the Times’ deep hatred of Republicans and its clear partisan reporting, in my opinion, the correct answer is the Post.
No national newspaper has been as blatant of a mouthpiece for government corruption and political bias, and if you still have doubts, just remember that they also employ Taylor Lorenz, perhaps the worst “reporter” on the planet. Don’t get me wrong, I think the Times is a destructive entity, but the Post is the worst of the worst, and if you want a recent example, see my colleague Brad Slager’s latest piece.
Of course, newspapers must still exist within the free market, and apparently, being a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party isn’t all that profitable. According to a new report from the Times, the Post has hit a financial iceberg and is taking on water. CEO Fred Ryan has suggested cutting 100 positions in the newsroom.
SCOOP: The Washington Post is on track to lose money this year, sources say. It been unable to boost subscribers back to the 3 million it had in 2020 — and CEO Fred Ryan has floated cutting 100 newsroom positions. Story here from me and @BenMullin https://t.co/xas2BHSR56
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) August 30, 2022
When there’s talk of people losing their jobs, I’m often sympathetic. In this case, I couldn’t care less. The Post is a terrible, bad-faith publication that trashes its political opponents and doesn’t even attempt to offer a balanced view of the political sphere. All the while, they claim to be a standard bearer of non-partisan, fair reporting. In reality, most of its reporters are vicious partisans who spend their time writing hit pieces to push Democrat narratives. Not a single Republican should lose sleep over any layoffs happening within that newsroom.
Besides, it appears this move is warranted for more reasons than just financial concerns.
Washington Post CEO Fred Ryan is concerned about low productivity in the newsroom, according to our sources. He asked for Zoom records and found there were fewer meetings on Fridays. He also monitors badge swipe reports as he pushes for RTO https://t.co/xas2BHSR56 w/ @BenMullin
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) August 30, 2022
The reporters that work at the Post have it made compared to most Americans. They get good salaries and benefits with an amount of flexibility most couldn’t dream of. Yet, they apparently can’t even be bothered to show up for work anymore. Heck, they aren’t even showing up for Zoom meetings. That’s how entitled the paper’s workforce has become. As Taylor Lorenz’s behavior has shown, the inmates run the asylum, and that’s obviously a recipe for financial losses. Riding the woke wave only takes you so far before more normal people decide to do something else with their money.
Regardless, don’t expect this news to lead to any contrition or change within the news industry. Instead, we’ll get wailing and gnashing of teeth with a lot of “you don’t understand how a newsroom works” appeals to authority. Journalists are nothing if they aren’t hopelessly arrogant, and none of them want to take responsibility for their own failures.
Richard Nixon gets to laugh in his grave.
Happy dance!
BTTT
“Richard Nixon gets to laugh in his grave.”
Trump is ‘Nixon’s revenge’ on steroids.
As a 51 year old conservative, it gives me great pleasure to know some anti Nixon asshole from the late 1960’s is going watch Trump be elected in 2024, while he lives in a little apartment with a foreigner wiping his ass.
The moron will be in a rage with saliva dripping off his liberal chin.
Why does WaPo need any journalists at all, when it gets its newsfeed from the CIA?
Ah, the media. Where men are weak, and the women are odd looking.
If they jump out of the windows, send videos please.
Remind me again. Why should I care?
The Minneapolis Startribune needs the WaPo. This is where the Trib gets all its news.
Have you ever looked at all the VP’s the newspapers have?
And, with $600 per foreclosure notice posted in the Trib, the newspaper isn’t doing too bad. It used to be 4-6 foreclosures per day, now there are 4-6 pages of foreclosure notices per day. (MN law, f/c notice must be published)
That’s a shame.
If management drops pay of reporters below $7.00 per hour, there will be an insurrection!
Aw, gosh. That’s such a shame. 🎻 🎼
Thanks for the good news.
When the Mockingbird Compost closes its doors for good I will be celebrating with champagne.
Awwww. Not layoffs!
Odd that some little weekly or on line paper hasn’t scooped that business.
When my dad got stationed at the Pentagon in the early 70s, there was a tongue-in-cheek pamphlet they handed out to new arrivals called “How to Read the Washington Post.” It was a primer on how to cut through the layers of BS to get to the modicum of truth buried in their articles back then.
I think they abandoned the modicum of truth thing a couple of decades ago.
Dad told us kids about this when we became old enough to see the games the media played. He wished he’d kept a copy and I wish he had too.
Probably nobody will notice ... has as many readers as CNN has viewers.
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One of the things I got to do after my dad passed away is to cancel the subscription to the Washington Post.
Not even sure why he had a subscription to it, he wasn’t reading it. It did a nice job of filling up the recycling bin because he had a daily subscription.
I think the “journalists” working for WaPo, NYT and The Hill just take turns writing articles, then the others dress it up a bit and publish it as their own. One article distributed to a dozen papers.
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