It's about ownership installing the editorial slant they want. This comes through hiring decisions, story selection, headlines, and the editorial page.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
It's about ownership installing the editorial slant they want. This comes through hiring decisions, story selection, headlines, and the editorial page.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
MSM/legacy media is captured.
There are still good editors and reporters struggling and doing good work at those outlets. But corporate constraints are designed to prevent them from telling the plain truth, from pursuing "inconvenient" stories.
#BezosEnquirer
MSM/legacy media is captured.
There are still good editors and reporters struggling and doing good work at those outlets. But corporate constraints are designed to prevent them from telling the plain truth, from pursuing "inconvenient" stories.
#BezosEnquirer
This ranges from outright distribution (Fox News, #BezosEnquirer) to whitewashing, turning a blind eye, and both-sides-ism (CNN, MSNBC) to capitulation (CBS).
This is a consequence, 🧵
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
This ranges from outright distribution (Fox News, #BezosEnquirer) to whitewashing, turning a blind eye, and both-sides-ism (CNN, MSNBC) to capitulation (CBS).
This is a consequence, 🧵
Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee are spinning in their graves.
RIP Washington Post 😥
Katharine Graham and Ben Bradlee are spinning in their graves.
RIP Washington Post 😥
I hung on to my Washington Post subscription for a long while because of the staff reporters, but most of them, along with key editorial staff, have fled.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
I hung on to my Washington Post subscription for a long while because of the staff reporters, but most of them, along with key editorial staff, have fled.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
Corporate control has destroyed editorial independence.
Independent news outlets doing real reporting *are* out there. (And I don't mean talking head podcasts.) We need to support them.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
Corporate control has destroyed editorial independence.
Independent news outlets doing real reporting *are* out there. (And I don't mean talking head podcasts.) We need to support them.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
Of the 3 branches, Congress is the heart of "We the People."
The power of the presidency is a monster with too many Dr. Frankensteins to credit.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost
President Washington didn’t create the War Department in 1789; *Congress* did:
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Of the 3 branches, Congress is the heart of "We the People."
The power of the presidency is a monster with too many Dr. Frankensteins to credit.
#BezosEnquirer
#RIPWashingtonPost