As Scott Ott asks, ’How many times are we gonna have to rescue this dame?’ After yet another bailout attempt, The Washington Post has announced a leaner, more accurate version of itself is in the works. But the bigger question isn’t about the Post so much as it is about the entire idea of a ‘newspaper.’ Have they already gone the way of the Dry Goods Store without even realizing it?
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If you have ever been involved firsthand in an event that ends up being covered in legacy news media you’d know how little of what makes its way to the public is factual and true. When you know the whole story and all the facts for certain, not just conjecture and opinion but the actual immutable factual timeline of such an event — and then see it covered in newspapers and on TV stations — It’s pretty astounding how little the coverage resembles the actual event. Professional, trained reporters are liars. Their job is not to cover events in a… Read more »
Bill, that’s great news! I happen to run a whale oil lamp and heating company! I would love to get in on the ground floor with your online-dry-goods.com!
It’ll be awesome! Send me a registered letter to my PO Box. We’ll talk.
The only attribute of the so-called “pulse of the Left” of which I care is whether it has stopped throbbing. The Left cannot die soon enough.
I pick up my free local paper for the local coverage. Unfortunately, it’s run by a recovering LSD head (as he vaguely hints in his weekly editorials), and half of its content is TDS editorial that would make MS13-NOW blush. And they wonder why they’re going the way of the dodo.
BTW, nice Twilight Zone reference in the post’s title
We stopped getting our “Local” newspaper, even the digital version, many years ago. We also stopped watching our “Local” network news and even now only check their website for our weather. Why – the reason is why I put “Local” in quotes. It is not a local reporting tool. Other than sports covering the colleges in which locals are interested, they basically had the same news stories that the national covered. I told my wife if they were ever to actually cover what is going on locally, I would get the subscription. But they don’t. Even when a local story… Read more »
As someone who, as a Kid, actually sold Newspapers on the streetcorner of my home town, I agree that the WaPo dinosaur is dead. But I think all news is dead as well. Too much webcasting….by robots.
There is a LOT of information, some of it in the form of “news”, out there. The hard part is filtering the bullshit out. But that has always been the hard part. The easy part is to just sit back and consume whatever you’re being fed and that hasn’t changed either. What has changed is the vector and method. If you wax all nostalgic for the days of Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather thinking that was somehow “news” more relevant than what’s available today … You’re just fooling yourself. You were being spoon fed hogwash back then and if you… Read more »
Yep. Many of those “robots” are packed inside human skin, which of course is a waste of good skin.
The W.P. could get relevant by doing real stories about real issues truthfully. If they had the civilizational pluses and minuses of losing our base in Judeo-Christian belief, similarly with Feminism, Elder care as related to nuclear families, Childrearing without recess and music, and the truth regarding the complete unaffordability of medical care. Who am I kidding? If the Washington post just gave the whole franchise to online cat videos they’d clean up. I think the GhatGPT concept of taking your photos and recreating them to be more appealing, if they didn’t limit it to four a day, could keep… Read more »