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The Washington Post Has Become Unrecognizable, The Way They Have Submitted To Trump.....I Can't Read It Anymore

RIP U.S. Democracy

RIP U.S. Democracy

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Jeff Bezos has completely destroyed a once outstanding newspaper.

The criticism of Donald Trump in the Washington Post opinion pages has become non-existent. It is absolutely chilling to behold. No more Dana Milbank. No more Eugene Robinson. No more Jennifer Rubin. No more David Ignatius. No more Ruth Marcus.

I held out hope until recently. Dana Milbank was still being very critical of Trump until a few weeks ago....and now he has been eerily silent as well.

It's ironic that the Washington Post still has the headline "Democracy Dies In Darkness" on their webpage. They have allowed democracy to die with their subjugation to Trump.

I'm cancelling my subscription.
 
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RIP U.S. Democracy said:
Jeff Bezos has completely destroyed a once outstanding newspaper.

The criticism of Donald Trump in the Washington Post opinion pages has become non-existent. It is absolutely chilling to behold. No more Dana Milbank. No more Eugene Robinson. No more Jennifer Rubin. No more David Ignatius. No more Ruth Marcus.

I held out hope until recently. Dana Milbank was still being very critical of Trump until a few weeks ago....and now he has been eerily silent as well.

It's ironic that the Washington Post still has the headline "Democracy Dies In Darkness" on their webpage. They have allowed democracy to die with their subjugation to Trump.

I'm cancelling my subscription.
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It's not a paper anymore. Bezos has taken it and is leveraging its name for state propaganda. Real journalists fled. IT reminds me of what happened to Newsweek, only sadder.
 
I don't read them terribly often nowadays, but their opinion page today seemed reasonably anti-Trump. It is more based on economic arguments about tariffs than some others, but arguably, this is a more plausible route to reach Republicans.

No, I don't trust Bezos, but I'm not sure I see this night-and-day change that clearly.
 
RIP U.S. Democracy said:
Jeff Bezos has completely destroyed a once outstanding newspaper.

The criticism of Donald Trump in the Washington Post opinion pages has become non-existent. It is absolutely chilling to behold. No more Dana Milbank. No more Eugene Robinson. No more Jennifer Rubin. No more David Ignatius. No more Ruth Marcus.

I held out hope until recently. Dana Milbank was still being very critical of Trump until a few weeks ago....and now he has been eerily silent as well.

It's ironic that the Washington Post still has the headline "Democracy Dies In Darkness" on their webpage. They have allowed democracy to die with their subjugation to Trump.

I'm cancelling my subscription.
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"In style, swim with the current. In principle, stand like a rock".

The WP has thrown away a history of integrity, as so many have in this era. Once again, "these are the times that try men's souls"......
 
bythoughts said:
I don't read them terribly often nowadays, but their opinion page today seemed reasonably anti-Trump. It is more based on economic arguments about tariffs than some others, but arguably, this is a more plausible route to reach Republicans.

No, I don't trust Bezos, but I'm not sure I see this night-and-day change that clearly.
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They may gently rock the boat from time to time now.....but they will never again forcefully proclaim that the ship is sinking with Trump at the helm.

And that is why so many folks like Eugene Robinson, Jennifer Rubin, and Ruth Marcus have left.
 
The Brad Dad said:
It's not a paper anymore. Bezos has taken it and is leveraging its name for state propaganda. Real journalists fled. IT reminds me of what happened to Newsweek, only sadder.
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Congrats, you hold the same position as Marx. Are you proud of that?

The decisive question is who enlightens the people, who educates them? In those countries, it is actually capital that rules; that is, nothing more than a clique of a few hundred men who possess untold wealth and, as a consequence of the peculiar structure of their national life, are more or less independent and free. They say: 'Here we have liberty.' By this they mean, above all, an uncontrolled economy, and by an uncontrolled economy, the freedom not only to acquire capital but to make absolutely free use of it. That means freedom from national control or control by the people both in the acquisition of capital and in its employment. This is really what they mean when they speak of liberty. These capitalists create their own press and then speak of the 'freedom of the press.'

In reality, every one of the newspapers has a master, and in every case this master is the capitalist, the owner. This master, not the editor, is the one who directs the policy of the paper. If the editor tries to write other than what suits the master, he is ousted the next day.
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aociswundumho said:
He was an extreme collectivist, a revolutionary, and he supported public control over the means of production.

What more do you want?
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He was an extreme crony capitalist. A right wing fascist. Closer to the phony American libertarian than anything else.
 
RIP U.S. Democracy said:
Jeff Bezos has completely destroyed a once outstanding newspaper.

The criticism of Donald Trump in the Washington Post opinion pages has become non-existent. It is absolutely chilling to behold. No more Dana Milbank. No more Eugene Robinson. No more Jennifer Rubin. No more David Ignatius. No more Ruth Marcus.

I held out hope until recently. Dana Milbank was still being very critical of Trump until a few weeks ago....and now he has been eerily silent as well.

It's ironic that the Washington Post still has the headline "Democracy Dies In Darkness" on their webpage. They have allowed democracy to die with their subjugation to Trump.

I'm cancelling my subscription.
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I don't follow the post that much. Are you saying these writers no longer write anti-Trump or anti-Maga opinions or that they no longer are published by the Post?
 
aociswundumho said:
He was an extreme collectivist, a revolutionary, and he supported public control over the means of production.

What more do you want?
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So "extremely collectivist" that he immediately privatized the sectors of the economy socialized under the Weimar. The term "privatization" had to be invented to describe what he did.

Privatization is something Leftists support?
 
maxparrish said:
I don't follow the post that much. Are you saying these writers no longer write anti-Trump or anti-Maga opinions or that they no longer are published by the Post?
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Correct. They do not. Many of them have left the WaPo and no opinion writers currently there are forcefully criticizing Trump the way the others I mentioned above did.
 
aociswundumho said:
He was an extreme collectivist, a revolutionary, and he supported public control over the means of production.

What more do you want?
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Hitler was such a "leftist" that he started the biggest war in human history against the USSR, a communist country.

Hitler was such a "leftist" that his Nazi storm troopers beat up socialists and communists to the point where they were basically non-existent in Germany by 1932.

Everything that you write is utter, uneducated nonsense.
 
RIP U.S. Democracy said:
Hitler was such a "leftist" that he started the biggest war in human history against the USSR, a communist country.
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Yes, and the Bolsheviks murdered the Mensheviks, therefore the Bolsheviks were right wing, correct?

Socialist states fighting each other happens all the time. For example.

RIP U.S. Democracy said:
Hitler was such a "leftist" that his Nazi storm troopers beat up socialists and communists to the point where they were basically non-existent in Germany by 1932.
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Socialists and communists were welcomed into the Nazi party with open arms.
 
aociswundumho said:
Yes, because the Nazis never used that term. They called it gleichschaltung.

Funny how Nazi "privatization" resulted in the Nazi's having more control over the economy.
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Of course the Nazis didn't use an English term. The term Privatization was coined by Western economists. The rich love control over the economy when it makes them richer.
 
bythoughts said:
I don't read them terribly often nowadays, but their opinion page today seemed reasonably anti-Trump. It is more based on economic arguments about tariffs than some others, but arguably, this is a more plausible route to reach Republicans.

No, I don't trust Bezos, but I'm not sure I see this night-and-day change that clearly.
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Your observation is consistent with what i found regarding Bezo's new policy, as of Feb 26th of this year. He announced that the opinion would focus on

Jeff Bezos announced on February 26, 2025, that The Washington Post’s opinion section would focus on “personal liberties and free markets,” and that “viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.” He stated that the internet already provided a platform for diverse opinions, and he believed his specific libertarian and free market viewpoints were “underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.”

Hence, as Trump is hostile to international free markets and many personal liberties, it is logical that the opinion pages would reflect that kind of criticism of his views.
 
aociswundumho said:
Yes, and the Bolsheviks murdered the Mensheviks, therefore the Bolsheviks were right wing, correct?

Socialist states fighting each other happens all the time. For example.
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Hitler stated many times that he believed Marxism should be destroyed. Hence, why he attacked the Soviet Union.

Maybe you should try reading The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich. You honestly seem to have a bunch of silly bumper sticker views that are 1 mm deep.

aociswundumho said:
Socialists and communists were welcomed into the Nazi party with open arms.
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?? These "Beefsteak Nazis" had to hide the fact that they were socialists and communists "on the inside", as your article claims. More pure nonsense from you. You are actually proving my point.
 
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