IтАЩm so pleased to see someone who wishes to share the importance of news based on fact . Truth has become disowned by these billionaire media owners. Who clearly have lost all integrity , assuming they had some before they joined the Liars club.
This is definitely a hopeful , uplifting move, and I thank all whoтАЩve joined this group who wish to use their expertise to a positive end. Bless this endeavor .
The column you read about bringing a baby into todayтАЩs world is beautiful and touching. But itтАЩs quite different from Alexandra PetriтАЩs usual fare which is biting and satirical and very funny.
I saw that they endorsed Bondi. That should be enough for anyone with a brain in their head to cancel their subscription if they still have one. I canceled mine when they refused to endorse Harris, and my amazon prime subscription followed right after.
Biden / Harris administration vocalizes that no one is above the law, but do not walk the talk. Bondy has clearly represented and defended the rule of law.
Sure buddy. Whatever gets you through the night. Bondi isnтАЩt his worst pick, but she is associated with him via money. All it took was $25,000 from DJT to get her to stop investigating him. But tell me more about her history of law & order. IтАЩll wait.
Because the maggot kkkult already has fox, oannon, Sinclair, all the podcasts and I can't keep track of what else... but please, more fair and balanced. ЁЯдм
Anyone who doesnтАЩt espouse proper leftist ideology is obviously always a lying maggot, while what one reads/hears from those who do conform to leftist orthodoxy by extension must always be the truth.
The MSM today is only publishing pro-Trump stories. All anti-Trump stories have been eliminated.
When Biden and Obama were in charge, by contrast, they almost never published pro-Administration stories, but rather primarily stories that were critical of those administrations.
The problem is that WaPo and the rest of the MSM are now insufficiently anti-Trump.
He already has! I hate to see the end of newspapers, though, especially because I was a Bezos defender due to the fact that he kept a тАЬhands offтАЭ approach to the WP. ЁЯШЦ
Margaret Sullivan always said that Bezos never interfered when she was at the WaPo but clearly that changed recently. What shocked and disturbed me is that Bezos hired Will Lewis from Murdoch land even though it was clear that Lewis had obstructed justice in the UK phone hacking case. The court had ordered all emails to be preserved but Lewis had millions of them destroyed anyway тАФ then bizarrely tried to blame ex PM Gordon Brown:
тАЬ First, Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up
After he was hired Lewis tried to bribe NPRтАЩs David Folkenflik with an interview in exchange for killing an article Folkenflik was planning to publish. He later pressured Executive Editor Sally Buzbee to kill similar stories in the WaPoтАЩs. She refused and was soon gone from the WaPo.
That Bezos not only hired Lewis with that scandal in his background, but kept him on after his unethical attempts at covering up his own wrongdoing was a sign that the WaPo was doomed. Even though most of the media has chosen to ignore this shocking story, LewisтАЩs law breaking is likely to become a big story soon as Prince HarryтАЩs lawsuit against MurdochтАЩs organization goes to court.
It's important to keep in mind that a lot of the Post's integrity was due to the stewardship of former executive editor Marty Baron -- whom Bezos inherited from the Grahams.
Ironically, I have never been a big fan of Telnaes - cool art, but rarely a truly incisive cartoon of the kind I think the world needs. Then she creates one of the greatest editorial cartoons I've ever seen, and they refuse it.
What the heck did they do to the comments section there?? Don't know if you've seen it if you've canceled your subscription, but it seems to have become some kind of maze. I hate to leave her behind, but Jen Rubin was one of the few reasons I was going to wait until my already-paid-for subscription ran out. Maybe I should go ahead and cancel, as they also ticked me off by running an "Inauguration Sale" special price in my Facebook feed. That takes some nerve. Just how many knees do they have left to bend?! $29, btw...
The comments section was too freewheeling for Bezos. So he tightened the controls to discourage in any real discourse with readers. They should just add тАЬso letтАЩs finish turning of the lights to get our oligarchy rolling,тАЭ to their motto.
You can cancel now but keep reading until your subscription is up. I just did. Now I am getting offers for resubscribe at a lower price. Not happening until something changes starting with Will Lewis getting the ax.
That had been my plan, but I think I'll cancel now so I can say, "you wouldn't endorse a presidential candidate, but now you're saying Trump's cabinet picks are worth your push."
Also, the re-upped me automatically this past year at a really low price. Given the current circumstances, they may do that again.
I'm sorry, I checked my link and then did a search, and it looks like she is no longer syndicated! (Yet another stupid decision by the Post, IMHO.)
It would be nice if she too was somewhere else, and a place where the Nutterati can reconnect. I guess for now we will have to find each other like this, among the sane folk at Substack.
You suggested a WaPo cartoonist & if you steped out your bubble, you would find a cartoonist, Darrin Bell, was just arrested for possession of child Pornography. He was a darling of NeverTrumper crowd. Funny how he always accused maga of being "groomers" yet he was projecting this whole time. There's alot of projection on the left. Whether its corruption, oligarchs, Censorship, etc.
But you go ahead & accuse me of lying. It makes it much sweeter when I point out how foolish you were in the future.
Steve Bell, who was fired by the Guardian in 2023, is one of the best. His GW Bush chimp and trump toilet lid were brilliant. Don't know what he's doing now.
Yes you should hire the WaPo cartoonist recently arrested for possession of child Pornography. Odd how those freaks end up being fans of Ms Rubin or leftwing ideology.
I happily subscribed. Now you guys need an editorial cartoonist. I think you might know of one...
Also, if you ask a certain well known satirist to join, I can then cancel my subscription to that non-newspaper. Let it die in darkness.
"Let it die in darkness." Great line!
IтАЩm so pleased to see someone who wishes to share the importance of news based on fact . Truth has become disowned by these billionaire media owners. Who clearly have lost all integrity , assuming they had some before they joined the Liars club.
This is definitely a hopeful , uplifting move, and I thank all whoтАЩve joined this group who wish to use their expertise to a positive end. Bless this endeavor .
Thank you .
Hypocrisy dies in darknessтДвя╕П. ЁЯШЬ
Sadly, it thrives in darkness.
No, it survives in darkness and withers in the light.
We can only hope. Living amongst idiots is exhausting..
Well put - it is exhausting !
Your comment indicates you are unwilling to accept the realities standing in front of year. Maybe these "idiots" you refer to are going to MAGA!!!
WeтАЩd like to think soтАж
Yes, тАЬa certain well-known satiristтАЭwhoтАЩs on maternity leave.
IтАЩd never read her until just now. Wow, sheтАЩs awesome. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/13/petri-baby-column-pregnant-leave-generations/
The column you read about bringing a baby into todayтАЩs world is beautiful and touching. But itтАЩs quite different from Alexandra PetriтАЩs usual fare which is biting and satirical and very funny.
Cancel now, holding out until Alexandra Petri resigns is only helping Bezos.
I just did. Their endorsement of most of Trump's cabinet was the final straw.
Have they actually published endorsements of those dipЁЯТйs?
I saw that they endorsed Bondi. That should be enough for anyone with a brain in their head to cancel their subscription if they still have one. I canceled mine when they refused to endorse Harris, and my amazon prime subscription followed right after.
Your comment sort of implies that you do not believe that much in the rule of law. Am I correct??
Please explain why you would conclude that? I'll wait.
Biden / Harris administration vocalizes that no one is above the law, but do not walk the talk. Bondy has clearly represented and defended the rule of law.
Sure buddy. Whatever gets you through the night. Bondi isnтАЩt his worst pick, but she is associated with him via money. All it took was $25,000 from DJT to get her to stop investigating him. But tell me more about her history of law & order. IтАЩll wait.
Do you ? And prove it !
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Because the maggot kkkult already has fox, oannon, Sinclair, all the podcasts and I can't keep track of what else... but please, more fair and balanced. ЁЯдм
Glad we agree.
Anyone who doesnтАЩt espouse proper leftist ideology is obviously always a lying maggot, while what one reads/hears from those who do conform to leftist orthodoxy by extension must always be the truth.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Apparently we have a free press if media oligarchs get to publish whatever they're told is the price for the power they gained.
Quite right.
The MSM today is only publishing pro-Trump stories. All anti-Trump stories have been eliminated.
When Biden and Obama were in charge, by contrast, they almost never published pro-Administration stories, but rather primarily stories that were critical of those administrations.
The problem is that WaPo and the rest of the MSM are now insufficiently anti-Trump.
great train of thought . . . thank you
He already has! I hate to see the end of newspapers, though, especially because I was a Bezos defender due to the fact that he kept a тАЬhands offтАЭ approach to the WP. ЁЯШЦ
Margaret Sullivan always said that Bezos never interfered when she was at the WaPo but clearly that changed recently. What shocked and disturbed me is that Bezos hired Will Lewis from Murdoch land even though it was clear that Lewis had obstructed justice in the UK phone hacking case. The court had ordered all emails to be preserved but Lewis had millions of them destroyed anyway тАФ then bizarrely tried to blame ex PM Gordon Brown:
тАЬ First, Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up
Gordon BrownтАЭ
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/31/gordon-brown-tom-watson-news-international-william-lewis-rupert-murdoch
After he was hired Lewis tried to bribe NPRтАЩs David Folkenflik with an interview in exchange for killing an article Folkenflik was planning to publish. He later pressured Executive Editor Sally Buzbee to kill similar stories in the WaPoтАЩs. She refused and was soon gone from the WaPo.
That Bezos not only hired Lewis with that scandal in his background, but kept him on after his unethical attempts at covering up his own wrongdoing was a sign that the WaPo was doomed. Even though most of the media has chosen to ignore this shocking story, LewisтАЩs law breaking is likely to become a big story soon as Prince HarryтАЩs lawsuit against MurdochтАЩs organization goes to court.
It's important to keep in mind that a lot of the Post's integrity was due to the stewardship of former executive editor Marty Baron -- whom Bezos inherited from the Grahams.
ThatтАЩs when I cancelled as well.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
How many times are you going to post this?
Be kind.
It's easy for the mentally ill to get stuck in a loop.
Andy can't help himself.
"You really are a bot, aren't you?"
Yes. I am bot. Bot I am.
Incapable of independent thought.
Which is why it is so awful that WaPo is now insufficiently leftist doctrinaire.
Isn't it wonderful that people can throw around labels to denigrate the comments of those they disagree with, rather than address the substance?
How many folks robotically posted here that they canceled their WaPo subscriptions because that newspaper is now not leftist enough?
I'm guessing you refer to A.P. who is on leave. I LOVE that column!
I'd been waiting for a writer to quit and say something like this before canceling. Now I have.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Alexandra Petri would be a great addition, as would Michael de Adder, the excellent political cartoonist.
I'll miss her too.
They turned out the lights on Democracy.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Borowitz is on SubstackтАжand Contrarian
It already has...
Ironically, I have never been a big fan of Telnaes - cool art, but rarely a truly incisive cartoon of the kind I think the world needs. Then she creates one of the greatest editorial cartoons I've ever seen, and they refuse it.
How about Alexandra Petri?
Never found her funny. Will miss Carolyn Hax, though.
The ONLY thing I miss after cancelling my subscription is Carolyn Hax.
What the heck did they do to the comments section there?? Don't know if you've seen it if you've canceled your subscription, but it seems to have become some kind of maze. I hate to leave her behind, but Jen Rubin was one of the few reasons I was going to wait until my already-paid-for subscription ran out. Maybe I should go ahead and cancel, as they also ticked me off by running an "Inauguration Sale" special price in my Facebook feed. That takes some nerve. Just how many knees do they have left to bend?! $29, btw...
They RUINED comments, purposefully I think.
I was only subscribed anymore for Jen and Eugene.
Sorry, Eugene, but the time has come. Enough is enough. I've unsubscribed.
Also, who the heck dreamed up the nightmarish software system for the comments??
The comments section was too freewheeling for Bezos. So he tightened the controls to discourage in any real discourse with readers. They should just add тАЬso letтАЩs finish turning of the lights to get our oligarchy rolling,тАЭ to their motto.
Gloria, I adored the WAPO comments section when the paper still stood for democracy. I found the NYTimes comment section way too restrictive.
I donтАЩt miss either paper now.
Exactly! WaPo and NYT are insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
1000%
The comments were usually the best part.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
You really are a bot, aren't you?
You can cancel now but keep reading until your subscription is up. I just did. Now I am getting offers for resubscribe at a lower price. Not happening until something changes starting with Will Lewis getting the ax.
That had been my plan, but I think I'll cancel now so I can say, "you wouldn't endorse a presidential candidate, but now you're saying Trump's cabinet picks are worth your push."
Also, the re-upped me automatically this past year at a really low price. Given the current circumstances, they may do that again.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Exactly! WaPo is now insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Here's a nail to seal the coffin: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/trump-nominees-confirmation-hearings-editorial-board/
UGH. You are so right. I can't believe this. Is someone there saying to readers, "but you wanted our opinion'!" Thanks for pointing that out to us.
Email wall to read ЁЯШТ. WonтАЩt happen.
Short story.. Pam Bondi is apparently acceptable.
One of the most vocal election deniers.
Apparently sexual assault and trafficking are the low bar now.
Actually no, sexual assault is fine. I guess only sex trafficking is the bar... for now. Won't be surprised when even that is acceptable.
I don't know how we recover from this, I truly don't.
Here is a gifted copy of the article: https://wapo.st/409FjG0
I cancelled my subscription several months ago but it was annual and hasn't run out yet. So I occasionally visit and share articles.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Thanks, the comment section was the best part of the article!
I had a yearly digital subscription to WaPo that doesn't run out until March. I cancelled anyway after Bezos interfered with the endorsement.
FYI, they don't actually cut your access off. If you get a physical copy of the newspaper you might be cut off immediately.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
These three women are why I go to the Post.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Huh? Petri is brilliant.
People have differing opinions, and they didn't say she isn't brilliant.
I will miss CH too. She is syndicated, but I was also quite fond of her "commentariat" at WaPo, too. Sigh.
Where else can I find her? And are any of the peanut gallery there, too?
I'm sorry, I checked my link and then did a search, and it looks like she is no longer syndicated! (Yet another stupid decision by the Post, IMHO.)
It would be nice if she too was somewhere else, and a place where the Nutterati can reconnect. I guess for now we will have to find each other like this, among the sane folk at Substack.
A quick look tells me that she is on Facebook, but it appears that she whatever she posts there, you have to go to WaPo to see her replies. Stupid.
She was one of the few reasons I used to subscribe. Wish I still did so I could unsubscribe again!
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Same here
Yes, I hope she joins.
She's on maternity leave at present.
same here! and agreed on a cartoonist!
Agree, bring in Telnaes
Yes, I believe they do! Maybe? LetтАЩs hope so!
Maybe twoтАж + Michael De Adder ЁЯШК
Yes him too
Luckovich. Actually, see if Toles has anything he wants to say without a deadline.
I can think of at least two!
Ann and Rob Rogers!
Lets get Tom Tomorrow and This Modern World!
You suggested a WaPo cartoonist & if you steped out your bubble, you would find a cartoonist, Darrin Bell, was just arrested for possession of child Pornography. He was a darling of NeverTrumper crowd. Funny how he always accused maga of being "groomers" yet he was projecting this whole time. There's alot of projection on the left. Whether its corruption, oligarchs, Censorship, etc.
But you go ahead & accuse me of lying. It makes it much sweeter when I point out how foolish you were in the future.
Please consider the Pulitzer Prize winner Jack Ohman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ohman outstanding writer as well.
Steve Bell, who was fired by the Guardian in 2023, is one of the best. His GW Bush chimp and trump toilet lid were brilliant. Don't know what he's doing now.
IF ONLY GEORGE BOOTH WAS STILL AROUND!!!
And I happily cancelled.
Exactly! WaPo is insufficiently leftist doctrinaire!
The free press cannot actually be free, unless it is anti-GOP!!
Yes you should hire the WaPo cartoonist recently arrested for possession of child Pornography. Odd how those freaks end up being fans of Ms Rubin or leftwing ideology.
Disgusting humans the progressive left is.
This is a lie and should not be allowed here.
Remind me who is disgusting?
Could you please elaborate?
Exactly what is it that John wrote that is a lie?
I was thinking the same thought!