Frustrations Mount at Washington Post as Its Business Struggles

[Alma]

Alma, I think the media hasn't "hyperventilated" enough about Trump.

For nearly the past decade he has lied about everything, shown a complete lack of understanding (or caring) about the president's constitutional duties and threatened people he disagreed with — including the media.

If a newspaper isn't going to report on and rebuke that, why bother running one?

I think we may find common ground in this: Some things haven't been covered enough while every story angle of the Steele dossier was mined beyond useful credulity.

For example, the whole "Trump was behind in state X, then ahead, then overnight fell behind again" narrative *would* have been weird…20 years ago. In 2020 and going forward that's how literally every Democratic nominee will win a swing state because mail ins are counted first, followed by day-of, which generally goes in order of when collected on Election Day.

For a very long time, because there were very few mail in ballots, Republicans always started the night out ahead in swing states. Then Democrats caught up. But more mail ins mean a up-down-up count, since Democrats clearly prefer that method more then Republicans do.

Why wasn't that more easily explained and understood at the time in 2020?

 

[I Should Coco]

I think a significant part of Trump's 2020 election results denial — especially the first few days after the election — was that the man himself literally had no idea how or when mail-in votes were counted.

 

[Alma]

I think a significant part of Trump's 2020 election results denial — especially the first few days after the election — was that the man himself literally had no idea how or when mail-in votes were counted.

Yep.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Things got worse.

LONDON -- Scotland Yard has opened a criminal inquiry into whether Washington Post publisher and chief executive Will Lewis obstructed justice 13 years ago as he helped Rupert Murdoch grapple with an escalating phone-hacking scandal at his U.K. tabloids.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, himself a target of hacking by the tabloids, announced the news in a piece in the Guardian.

"Blazoned across the top of every edition of the Washington Post is the statement, 'Democracy dies in darkness'," Brown wrote. "But what if the publisher himself is a master of the dark arts?"

As first reported in The Guardian, the police commissioner wrote to Brown that the investigation, which had been requested by the former prime minister, would be handled by a "special enquiry team." Brown says that team "sits under the central specialist crime command."

The investigation represents the most serious threat yet to Lewis' standing atop the Washington Post, one of the most august institutions in American journalism. Since Lewis assumed the role in January, he has been dogged by allegations stemming from this years-old scandal.​

Story from NPR: https://tinyurl.com/mr8ybe3p

 

[goalmouth]

Amazing how billionaires who made their money outside the media are just so bad at it once they buy a media property. Fish heads could do better than some of the jagovs they hire.