Op-Ed Sections, Threat or Menace?

You can do monthly or yearly subscriptions. When I canceled my Post subscription yesterday, I had the option of it just not renewing at the end of the yearlong subscription or stopping right away. I chose right away. Did the same for Amazon Prime.

 

Probably not any of that, and some people will probably go back to the Post again at some point in the future. But the reality is, there are very few ways to make a tangible statement of dissatisfaction with a newspaper. People are doing what they can right now. And 250,000+ cancelled subscriptions is quite a statement, particularly for a paper of the quality and reputation of the Washington Post.

 

David Simon - like me - sounds skeptical of the Bezos (non)apologia because of the convenient timing. It plays a lot more like obedience-in-advance than it does some latebreaking principled stand on the value of endorsements.

I guess I'm not sure what celebrities have to do with anything. Why not ask the 250,000 people who cancelled their subscriptions what they expect to achieve by it?

 

Marty sez:

 

Nonprofit journalism is plenty slanted - toward its donors and board members. Who generally - not always! - tilt hard left.

 

Standing Up to Trump

 

So?

 

Don't expect non-profit organizations to be as pure as the driven snow and don't ignore the fact that those organizations can be influenced by practical considerations of funding.

 

The Washington Post drama goes on:

MSN

 

Never trust anything from the Washington Free Beacon.

But here's its story without the Fox News / MSN cut and paste.

EXCLUSIVE: WaPo Opinion Editor David Shipley Blames Bezos for Endorsement Drama, Tells Staff They Can Quit as Distraught Journalists Slam Bezos for 'Conflict of Interest' and 'Thumb on the Scale'

 

also

https://www.salon.com/2024/10/31/washington-post-readers-arent-buying-jeff-bezos-excuse-making/

 

It’s not an answer to the concern at hand, really. It doesn’t resolve the bias about which Bezos writes.

I’m not sure how it’s easily resolved, honestly. Journalists national and local by and large lean left-to-hard-left. So does academia, the institution that produces almost all mainstream journalists. A cottage industry of right wing/heterodox idiots flourish because of a relative hivemind has formed in mainstream journalism.

Clay Travis, a buffoon, has the ear of people in part because of it.