Jimmy Higgins
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The word is that the WashPo owner's company Blue Origin had just met with Trump. Rumor is that is why Bezos pulled this shit. Which is odd because he helped WashPo stay on its feet.Does this fool genuinely believe that by intervening and ordering his editorial staff not to publish as they normally would, he is going to increase his newspaper's credibility?No, Jeff. It's crazy ass right wingers who no longer trust real journalism. And being even more accurate isn't going to change that. They want their beliefs validated, not challenged.In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
Obviously, with the guy who refused to concede an election loss, it would seem easy to push for the other candidate by default. But WashPo joined the LA Times and the USA Today in chopping off their balls (or pulling out their ovaries). This means a bit more than it sounds like as we don't have many newspaper companies left. The Boston Globe is one of the few that have maintained possession of their balls/ovaries.
The Boston Globe said:Vote for Trump?! Are you fucking nuts?! What part of 2017 to 2020 did you want to relive? The only President in modern history that had a net loss in jobs. Oh yeah... really wanna do that again. Seriously, this isn't a fucking question. This is like being asked "Cake or Death?"! Vote for Kamala Harris. Seriously! Dick fucking Cheney is voting for her. Do you realize how fucked up the GOP candidate has to be to get Dick Fucking Cheney to support the Democrat? REALLY REALLY REALLY FUCKED UP!!! (<--- note the ALL CAPS). So the Boston Globe will do what the other sad mofo papers are refusing to do, and that is say the fucking obvious! Vote for Harris! If you don't, don't come whining to us because shit went down that you didn't like. We fucking warned you in 2016! Warned you about W too! So ignore the Boston Globe at your own peril!
Okay... I might have made that up entirely. Though, I imagine it isn't much of a paraphrase.