Posted on 10/30/2024 8:14:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Washington Compost failure to endorse #Kamunism will “Destroy Our Democracy™”.
The Fourth Estate became a fifth column a very long time ago.
Sounds like real journalim may be coming back to life.
Papers (news outlets) should never endorse any candidate. It is not their freaking job. They should lose any privileges they have as news agencies at that point.
Report facts end of story.
Methinks they overestimate their importance.
“Power” is the hegemonic oligarchy in DC and throughout the plains of leftism in America.
“Truth” is Trump and the reinvented GOP that will succeed him.
If you want to speak truth to power, join us.
I don’t believe we need to underestimate the importance of their ‘non-endorsement’. Charge forward, get your friends and families to the polls.
Correction:
The report said:
“Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy.”
The correct report is:
Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of the American BUREAUCRACY”
You see, to the Left and the Progressives, their unaccounatable bureaucracy IS their replacement for Democracy. The whole idea of the administrative state is rule by the experts, not the elected officials.
The ONLY purpose of the elected officials is for their acknowledgement of the “independent” authority of the administrative state, and for Congress to keep creating additons to it. The one-off acts of creating new federal agencies and extensions to the authority of existing ones, is to the Left and the Progressives the only purpose for democracy. After that it is for the elected officials to just get out of the way and rubber stamp all new edicts issued by the bureaucrats.
Something has interfered with the quadrennial Ritual of Endorsement of the Democrat Candidate !
Lolz. When was that? What planet are these people on? The Post has always been punching down on the little guy, either lying or obfuscating the truth.
Bezos is wrong that no one trusts the media. Trust in the media among Democrats is near an all time high.
They think highly of themselves inside the bubble.
Who needs those lying and negative rectums posing as legit writers/editors?
Art of the Surge!
Illinois Passes $25 Million in Tax Credits To Boost Local Journalism
Presstitution pays.
Bezos (owner of WaPo) and LA Times, USA Today, etc... are in a business death spiral. They are bleeding revenue and readers, and its not merely an issue of “trust.”
I would bet 90% of people younger than 35 have probably never picked up a print-edition newspaper in their entire lives. WaPo and their ilk are getting killed by the internet, youtube, instagram, Facebook and podcasts. And going to WaPo or NY Times online is probably the last option among all these choices
WaPo can’t control these factors. But they have whored themselves to the deep state and liberal ideology for decades, and now “Trust” is the only thing they can grasp at.
An occupational hazard for those who traffic in words.
It’s a bad move by both papers. Their readers are Harris supporters. An endorsement pacifies their readers. It’s not like withholding an endorsement would suddenly give them some measure of credibility or get the likes of me to subscribe.
Stupid.
Very. They’d better enjoy it while they can. It won’t last forever.
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