I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years.
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I can't always read the long pieces, and video is a drag most often. So much is just someone saying what they think and I prefer to read that instead of watching someone talk.
I read AlJazeera and Reuters, and The Guardian, if I want daily news instead of long pieces.
I’m the same. I check out AP in the morning to see the headlines. There’s so much less actual news than we are led to believe that the headlines are usually enough. There’s a ton of perpetual recapping going on that is not at all helpful to my anxiety. The problem with video is that they are disincentivized for brevity. They take a paragraph of news and make it a 30 minute diatribe.
I also use Guardian and AJ. I read about a third of the stories from Atlantic.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I’m sorry, Anne. I mourn with you.
But I wonder if this isn’t also a good thing, taking away a platform from Bezos?
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum yes. It's a sad decline from the likes of Woodward and Bernstein exposing a conspiracy and bringing down a crooked president, to this isn't it.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
This is why journalism -and almost everything needed to make life livable- is incompatable with the share holder model @anneapplebaum
The profit motive is a death cult. Schools, papers of record, hospitals, public utilities all of them flattened into 2D vehicles for enrichment. Their intended purposes become obstacles to uninterrupted ROI.
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
Democracy dies in Darkness
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Tying any portion of your ego or identity to your employer is a toxic habit that American employers encourage at every turn to make it harder to act as free humans when necessary.
"Good" and "commercial" are mutually exclusive in the long term.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum heelo
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum social media did that! DC not a powerful revenue
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum I've lived in DC since 1989 and find it heartbreaking. But I've felt that way since late 2024, so I'm getting used to it, sadly.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Billionaires do this to everything they touch unless it actively increases their perversely obscene wealth.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
@anneapplebaum Question is: Should I cancel my subscription? Or keep it?
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
So very sory for your loss. I grew up in Bethesda. The Post was the first daily paper I ever read.
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I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
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