Extreme Commanders

88Commanders00 wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 5:05 pm

Why would anyone outside the DMV be interested the Washington Post.

If firefighters in Cleveland read a paper; it would be Cleveland’s paper, The Plain Dealer.

For analogous reasons they read the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. The Post has the best political coverage, or at least thats the perception. Just like if you want to want to find out whats going on in the world of business/finance (and certain other industries), you would read NYT/WSJ

What a load of BS

i have a print subscription since moving back to the area around the turn of the century. It cost about $2/ week back then .... but that was quickly changing as print journalism had to adjust to the reality that their profit center would no longer be the classified section (that used to be a huge proportion of the weight of the paper, and now is a couple of pages in the back of the sports section almost completely dedicated to class-action legal postings), and papers would have to rely on subscribers to survive. I honestly don't know what it costs now (my wife pays those bills), i just glanced online and saw a price of $60/month cited, but i am sure my wife has finagled that down a little bit, but not much. i believe it is important to support true journalism, as a pillar of democracy, and i see democracy crumbling all around me.

on Wednesday February 26, 2025 Jeff Bezos wrote the following:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/gove ... ngNewsVerp

I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.

We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets. We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.

There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.

I am of America and for America, and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America’s success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical — it minimizes coercion — and practical — it drives creativity, invention, and prosperity.

I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter. I suggested to him that if the answer wasn’t “hell yes,” then it had to be “no.” After careful consideration, David decided to step away. This is a significant shift, it won’t be easy, and it will require 100% commitment — I respect his decision. We’ll be searching for a new Opinion Editor to own this new direction.

I’m confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America. I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion. I’m excited for us together to fill that void.

i see nothing here worth paying to defend anymore, i am cancelling my subscription today

I'm in pain...

Sigh, Jeff Bezos is ridiculously out of touch. He’s going to kill the Post. I’m a subscriber and I don’t trust it.

'Hundreds' of people at Washington Post are trying to 'flee' Jeff Bezos: Pulitzer winner

According to Pulitzer Prize winner David Remnick, the Washington Post is facing the possibility of an exodus of hundreds of employees who have no faith in owner Jeff Bezos after his latest controversial move.

Moments after legendary Washington Post editor Marty Baron appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to criticize the billionaire Amazon owner's ruling that the venerable paper's editorial page will only parrot his "particular point of view," Remnick, who got his big break at the Post, joined the pile-on.

While speaking with the MSNBC hosts, Remnick claimed more employees with follow editorial page editor David Shipley out the door as soon as they land jobs with the Post's competitors.

"The thing that concerns me the most about what Bezos announced yesterday, and you mentioned the word fear, was that the fear that he must have that he obviously does have and other billionaires have it, other tech pros have it that it creeps onto the reportorial product," MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle prompted Remnick. "That is a real fear that I have. Do you share?"

"Of course, I have that fear," Remnick exclaimed. "I haven't seen it, to be honest, in the newsroom of the Washington Post, but I do know that the fear and anxiety has leached onto the newsroom floor so that, according to people at the Washington Post, not a few people have applied to flee the Post for the New York Times, but hundreds of people at the Washington Post have applied for jobs elsewhere, particularly the Times, the Post and so on."

Click on the link for the full article