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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.

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I feel the same about CBC and the Star.

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WaPo went on a journalistic witch hunt against Trump and his White House. But now with Trump gone they haven't changed their sensationalistic style of puff drivel.

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Right, because Trump and his minions did nothing wrong! Nothing to see there, no sirree!

No need for the press to look into it, the press should always just believe what the gubmint (and Trump WAS the gubmint, remember?) tells them!

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They should go after Trump - just like they should go after Biden. But they only go after Trump - that is the problem. Goodness knows the Biden family has a lot that could be investigated. Influence peddling by Hunter being a huge unreported story.

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Right, no one ever heard of Hunter Biden's laptop! Unreported!!!

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what about lying on the form for a gun permit ? ever take drugs Hunter ? No right there is a felony no ? they have pics of him taking drugs . oh well it's a Bidet who cares no news there

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deletedJun 19, 2022·edited Jun 19, 2022
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Nope: Here, for example, is a long NYT story published on Oct.22, 2020, 12 days before the election, which goes through what is known and not known pretty carefully:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/us/politics/hunter-biden-laptop.html

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Jun 18, 2022·edited Jun 19, 2022

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.

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I saw that but didn't realize it was a demotion.

But wait, Aren't editors and fact checkers supposed to already be doing that for anything published?

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Lorenz (not Lorens) is disputing that she was demoted.

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Maybe she can weep and sob her way back into a job.

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That probably needs to be reviewed for accuracy.

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Yeah, Substack.......I thank God everyday, too, for you!!!

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"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.....

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Go Raptors!!!

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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.

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But the same people who talk about McCarthyism wouldn’t see a problem with firing someone who is a Trump supporter.

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Truly though. The irony of the Cold War was how basically we had two factions that were different flavors of the exact same thing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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It all seems very similar to what is going on now.

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Why did Weigel apologize?!?!?!

STOP APOLOGIZING!!!!!!!

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He had nothing to apologize for. It was an innocuous joke that even long-standing feminists like myself would not be the slightest bit offended by. What’s with these people?

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I believe reporters have a duty to maintain as much objectivity as possible, and retweeting dumb jokes from professional accounts calls that objectivity into question, and so should not be done.

That said, that should be general MSM policy: no non-professional use of social media that identifies you as an MSM writer.

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I certainly see your point and agree that thoughtless tweets should not be part of the professional milieu. However, the overreaction to this one is plainly ludicrous.

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It was definitely an overreaction, but the lack of professionalism on Weigel's part is pretty appalling to me. You won't see Robert Costa or Maggie Haberman tweeting dumb jokes.

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Astounding absurdity! Loved Bill Maher’s take on it.

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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.

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Substack has become my primary source for journalism.

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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.

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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.

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Thanks did not read about this . This is just sad , unreal how they make judgement calls on optics no real evidence .

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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

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"He who studies evil is studied by evil "--Satan.

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Jun 19, 2022·edited Jun 19, 2022

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..

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Frankly, Robert I do believe the tide is turning. People are waking up. Everything is fine as long as the economy chugs along. Now that the elites are losing money, they are starting to question why? We all know why? Watch the disintegration of the Left accelerate as the economy implodes. which brings me no pleasure as it used to stand for something and I fear the blowback will be harsh and severe to the insane rhetoric that has taken hold. People have had enough.

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George Carlin said " Republicans are just Democrats who got tired of getting jerked around".

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The devil's weed seed of wokeism is embedded within our education institutions. Until we irradiate the seed, WaPo is gonna' keep WaPoin'

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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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We can’t say we weren’t warned about this. Bradbury, Orwell, Steinbeck, Clarke...

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