The "clusterf*ck" at The Washington Post, the raging dumpster fire that is establishment media, "democracy dies in dumbness" - and thanking "a slew of gods every day for the existence of Substack"
To be frank, and probably also petty, I am glad to see WaPo go up in flames because they dropped unbiased reporting and writing at least a few decades ago. That WaPo acts as if they are unbiased and journalists is the height of hypocrisy. They are so far gone that they can’t even see how abysmal they are.
Update this tale of media schizophrenia: The WaPo's Taylor Lorenz has been demoted from reporter to Tech Support, and anything she submits for publication must be reviewed for accuracy. She too was toxic in the work place. Her hysteria ridden interview on ABC made a fool of herself and by extension tainted the newspaper. Her bathetic tales of how she was sexually harassed and received death threats were on par with Jussie Smollett, Amber Heard, and Megan Markle. Did she report any of it to the police? No of course not.
Also, USA Today had to fire Gabriela Miranda, their star female reporter, and had to delete 23 of her stories on politics, world events and social commentary for falsehoods, fake quotes, and lies. In other words: she faked it.
"My main issue with this whole controversy is that it reinforces the perception that establishment media is a bunch of self-involved, out-of-touch lunatics."
Cant imagine where that perception would have come from.....
I just got through a few rounds of interviews with a newspaper (my first-ever journalism job). They asked which news sources I subscribed to, and I listed off all my favorite Substack reads (including this one), The Atlantic, NYT... they kept asking “Okay, what else?” I moved onto my local favorites, but they kept probing for more. Eventually, I just said I used to subscribe to the WaPo, but after the Libs of TikTok story and this one, I cancelled my subscription. The interviewer gave me a puzzled look and finally moved onto the next question. I really just can’t keep putting up with vitriolic nonsense in my newsfeed.
One a side note, I started listening to American History Tellers today about the Cold War. I just learned that the majority of people targeted by McCarthyism never faced criminal charges—they just lost their jobs. Many of them weren’t even communists, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time with someone suspected of communism.
These "journalists" are stuck as adult-age still-in-high-school social malcontents. They have been called "crybullies" and I think that is a pretty good name as it covers the infantile uncontrolled emotions and their propensity to think they deserve everything and those that don't give it to them should be yelled at and destroyed.
Everyone is defending Weigel, but why should he be retweeting dumb jokes from an account that identifies him as a Wapo writer (and only as that)? Should he not be aiming for a better reputation for objectivity than that?
Of course the Wapo (and all the MSM) should have a much stricter social media policy. Any account that identifies you as working for the Wapo should be used for professional reporting only.
There’s an interesting mirror here in the Danielle Graham story - with one key difference. She’s filed a lawsuit alleging sex- based discrimination at Bell Media, and in her statement of claim she notes that Ben Mulroney’s firing set off a cascade of events that had her fired earlier this year. The claim alleges that Mulroney’s replacement has less experience and was less skilled but was given preferential treatment to Graham despite them being co-hosts (similar to Mulroney’s treatment). She is being DRAGGED on social media, called a racist, called anti-Black, people are calling for violence against her (especially other women) for daring to make these claims because Mulroney’s replacement is a Black man. It’s horrific.
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.-- Honore de Balzac
What I enjoy about this thread is that we are all free to say what we want, and lots of interesting ideas get tossed out there. Sometimes the comments are off topic but so what? This market place of ideas is absolute forbidden by liberal leftist media (CBC, Star, Globe, CTV) that collectively work to tell one government approved narrative. Don't be surprised if Lean Out becomes the focus for Trudeau's Bill C-11 to censor the internet from dangerous hate speech such as ours..
I recall Bari Weiss commented that one of the reasons she quit the New York Times is that Twitter should have been on the masthead. Thanks, Tara and Bari for a bit of sanity in a world gone nuts.
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To be frank, and probably also petty, I am glad to see WaPo go up in flames because they dropped unbiased reporting and writing at least a few decades ago. That WaPo acts as if they are unbiased and journalists is the height of hypocrisy. They are so far gone that they can’t even see how abysmal they are.
Update this tale of media schizophrenia: The WaPo's Taylor Lorenz has been demoted from reporter to Tech Support, and anything she submits for publication must be reviewed for accuracy. She too was toxic in the work place. Her hysteria ridden interview on ABC made a fool of herself and by extension tainted the newspaper. Her bathetic tales of how she was sexually harassed and received death threats were on par with Jussie Smollett, Amber Heard, and Megan Markle. Did she report any of it to the police? No of course not.
Also, USA Today had to fire Gabriela Miranda, their star female reporter, and had to delete 23 of her stories on politics, world events and social commentary for falsehoods, fake quotes, and lies. In other words: she faked it.
Yeah, Substack.......I thank God everyday, too, for you!!!
"My main issue with this whole controversy is that it reinforces the perception that establishment media is a bunch of self-involved, out-of-touch lunatics."
Cant imagine where that perception would have come from.....
I just got through a few rounds of interviews with a newspaper (my first-ever journalism job). They asked which news sources I subscribed to, and I listed off all my favorite Substack reads (including this one), The Atlantic, NYT... they kept asking “Okay, what else?” I moved onto my local favorites, but they kept probing for more. Eventually, I just said I used to subscribe to the WaPo, but after the Libs of TikTok story and this one, I cancelled my subscription. The interviewer gave me a puzzled look and finally moved onto the next question. I really just can’t keep putting up with vitriolic nonsense in my newsfeed.
One a side note, I started listening to American History Tellers today about the Cold War. I just learned that the majority of people targeted by McCarthyism never faced criminal charges—they just lost their jobs. Many of them weren’t even communists, they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time with someone suspected of communism.
Why did Weigel apologize?!?!?!
STOP APOLOGIZING!!!!!!!
Astounding absurdity! Loved Bill Maher’s take on it.
These "journalists" are stuck as adult-age still-in-high-school social malcontents. They have been called "crybullies" and I think that is a pretty good name as it covers the infantile uncontrolled emotions and their propensity to think they deserve everything and those that don't give it to them should be yelled at and destroyed.
Substack has become my primary source for journalism.
Everyone is defending Weigel, but why should he be retweeting dumb jokes from an account that identifies him as a Wapo writer (and only as that)? Should he not be aiming for a better reputation for objectivity than that?
Of course the Wapo (and all the MSM) should have a much stricter social media policy. Any account that identifies you as working for the Wapo should be used for professional reporting only.
There’s an interesting mirror here in the Danielle Graham story - with one key difference. She’s filed a lawsuit alleging sex- based discrimination at Bell Media, and in her statement of claim she notes that Ben Mulroney’s firing set off a cascade of events that had her fired earlier this year. The claim alleges that Mulroney’s replacement has less experience and was less skilled but was given preferential treatment to Graham despite them being co-hosts (similar to Mulroney’s treatment). She is being DRAGGED on social media, called a racist, called anti-Black, people are calling for violence against her (especially other women) for daring to make these claims because Mulroney’s replacement is a Black man. It’s horrific.
Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.-- Honore de Balzac
What I enjoy about this thread is that we are all free to say what we want, and lots of interesting ideas get tossed out there. Sometimes the comments are off topic but so what? This market place of ideas is absolute forbidden by liberal leftist media (CBC, Star, Globe, CTV) that collectively work to tell one government approved narrative. Don't be surprised if Lean Out becomes the focus for Trudeau's Bill C-11 to censor the internet from dangerous hate speech such as ours..
The devil's weed seed of wokeism is embedded within our education institutions. Until we irradiate the seed, WaPo is gonna' keep WaPoin'
I recall Bari Weiss commented that one of the reasons she quit the New York Times is that Twitter should have been on the masthead. Thanks, Tara and Bari for a bit of sanity in a world gone nuts.
We can’t say we weren’t warned about this. Bradbury, Orwell, Steinbeck, Clarke...