CNN talks about WaPo getting a backlash for not endorsing, but says nothing about Bezos intervention, lol.
https://lite.cnn.com/2024/10/29/media/usa-today-gannett-newspapers-endorsement-president/index.html
That’s weird. I know CNN is quite familiar with dipshits intervening in coverage, so they should be able to spot it. They had one fuckface bend over backwards to give Donald an hour in front of a friendly live audience with a milquetoast moderator who was able to do fuckall against the lies.
Was there any evidence that Bozos made that decision? We’re all ready to believe it but want it just one persons allegation or something?
Just canceled prime too
It’s sad how much this will hurt good people who work for the Washington Post and how little this will affect Bezos.
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Chump change for Bozos. Hardly a scratch
And he doesn’t give a shit. Subscribers don’t matter, control of a well known paper that will push his interests does.
The bigger question should be: why would anyone subscribe to Bezo’s paywalled garden in the first place?
Who is paying for “news” in current year?
Like everybody else I object to what Bezos did, but boycotting the paper isn’t going to tangibly hurt him, financially or in any other way, and it certainly won’t change his behavior. The only people affected will be staffers who get laid off or have their salaries cut because of lost revenue. But hey, at least the social justice angels get to feel good by satisfyingly lashing out, and that’s what really counts, right? The fantasy that they’re fighting for a better world.
When the thing you enjoy and rely on is privately owned, the only way you can express your disappointment is to vote with your dollar.
Edit - the Post has always been too neolib for me to read regularly. I am not a subscriber
So do nothing and continue to financially support something you disagree with? Are you a cuck or something?
I believe freedom means everybody gets to have their own opinion, even people I don’t agree with. We should buy things based on their qualities, not based on judging who makes them. Moral perfectionism is a self-serving delusion. But go ahead and polish your halo.
Freedom means you can cancel a subscription based on any arbitrary decision you chose. We should buy things based on our freedom to choose, if that means you chose based on quality that’s great and makes sense. If you choose for any reason other than quality, that’s great it’s your money.
How can you not see the fallacy in your own argument?
If an employer used the same leverage on employees I’m pretty sure you would agree with me that it would be wrong. But for some reason you feel differently about doing it as a customer. I don’t know how you can not see the fallacy in that.
Who says it’s to hurt him? The man has billions and billions. If he lost nearly all his wealth he’d still be filthy rich. It’s about not consuming news that’s being blatantly influenced by people with power and money.
I don’t really understand. A news outlet shouldn’t be engaging in bias.
So it’s unethical and propaganda when one endorses your opponent and just as much so when one doesn’t do the same thing for yours?
In other countries, we call that hypocrisy or a ‘doible-standard’. I believe I’ve heard Americans say something similar as, “Rules for thee but not for me.”
The only thing that should be done is reporting on the other news outlet breeching journalism ethics or influencing in an election, because that’s the news here.
Newspapers have a long history of publishing editorials and opinion pieces. Newspapers are rarely, if ever, pure, objective news. Endorsements fall under the editorial content. They are an established tradition.
When the owner dictates that no endorsement should be made because it conflicts with his views, that’s a problem. It’s not the editors with domain knowledge making the call but the self-serving business-man doing it. And it’s not for the good of the paper, it’s for his business interests and personal ideology.
That is the problem.
This clown has done an insurrection, says he’s allowed to kill political opponents, promises to be a dictator, says Haitians are eating cats. Among other things, that’s nowhere near a comprehensive list. Any news outlet that is not explicitly saying “this is the worst choice for the country” is biased. It is an objective fact that Donald is the wrong choice.
This clown has done an insurrection, says he’s allowed to kill political opponents, promises to be a dictator, says Haitians are eating cats. Among other things, that’s nowhere near a comprehensive list.
It should have been over for him the moment he mocked disabled journalist Serge Kovaleski in November of 2015 in any reasonable society.
Some more links if anyone needs resources to share with people (don’t give up hope):
- Chronicling Trump’s 10 most egregious abuses of power | CNN Politics
- Trump Is the Worst President in History - The Atlantic
- And, if you’re feeling really motivated/need an extensive source: Donald Trump: 59 of the worst things Trump did during his presidency | indy100
Every previous election for a long time wapo has endorsed a candidate. The only reason they aren’t is because of the second richest man in the world told them not to.
1880 to 1968, no official endorsements for or against any presidential candidate
1972 anti-Republican endorsement
1976, 80, 84 pro-Democrat endorsements
1988 no endorsement
1992, 96, 00, 04, 08, 12, 16, 20 pro-Democrat endorsements
2024 no endorsement
I would consider all but 1 since 1972 to be a long time, it’s longer than I’ve been alive.
So they started endorsing the Democrats when the Republicans became a criminal enterprise over half a century ago you mean.
Uhh, stating that Kamala Harris would make a better President than Donald Trump is a factual statement, not a biased one.
There is no objective measure to assess the performance of a President where Trump would exceed Harris.
Just so you know, Saltesc has made a string of bad faith comments that are pro right-wing bs.
I don’t disagree at all. Trump is an absolute madman, and it’s amazing to me that he’s even in the conversation for running for president.
But, facts need to be cited, always. If a newspaper endorses Harris and says she’s a better candidate than Trump, they had better explain with evidence why this is the case. Not doing so would be just as biased, and one of the cornerstones of a Democratic campaign is truth.
Well, yeah. Presumably that’s why WaPo had a whole editorial devoted to it, and not just one sentence that said “Harris will be a better President than Trump.”
So freedom of speech really is just a cudgel the right uses against the left? It’s not really something they believe in.
Every news organisation is biased. The content they choose to emphasize, the time they spend on a subject, who they interview or what they say is all bias. How often they return to it or when it gets covered also show bias.
Bias in news is not automatically bad. Lying or false representation is. Somewhere in the recent past we swallowed some sort of pill making us think news agencies can’t have a stance.
I don’t really understand. A news outlet shouldn’t be engaging in bias.
I don’t really understand. A commenter shouldn’t so obviously have bad faith takes on their profile.
I believe not wanting to put the guy back in who did nothing as the Saudi’s bone sawed one of your writers falls into; common sense.
Bozo thought his own op ed was more important than the journalism of his “editorial board”, people who he presumably pays to write opinions. People who are journalists.
He thinks he’s an astronaut and a journalist because he can buy rocket companies and papers, but he’s a clown demonstrating his own lack of understanding of bias in plain English, his paper is worth but the circus music following him.
I think what I look for is not being unbiased, but being independent. i.e. no conflict of interests, no direct relation with any political entities, not vested in the success of either side. And WaPo has failed that.
And stop pretending both sides are equal. Endorsing Trump is unethical.
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All journalism has bias, it’s literally impossible to not have a bias. It’s how the journalist corrects that bias that is important. But understanding that might require nuance that you don’t yet have.
