Definitely Not Your Father's Washington Post
Or the Washington Post that I remember.
There is a bit of interesting news today about Hillary's email - the fact that the FBI granted immunity to three previously unknown witnesses/perps/participants: Mills, Samuelson and Bentel. You may or may not be interested in the ongoing saga, but I believe that most would consider it newsworthy and it is breaking as we speak. The latest morsel is that the Pres himself makes an appearance in the emails, according to the FBI materials just released.
To my surprise, no story on the WP turned up in a google news search of Clinton FBI email. But, the Washington Post did tell us, that the Hillary email story was out of control, right? I guess they have taken this issue firmly in hand by burying any news on the topic
I went to their site, to which I have a subscription, and scanned the mobile version on my tablet. Nothing. Even more curious I used the search function within the Post and was finally able to dredge up a story titled GOP Lawmaker: FBI gave immunity to top Clinton aide. If you are able to dredge up that story, you will find within the comments a fair number of comments about the story itself being buried and accessible only when searched for specifically on the site by using words like Clinton and immunity.
The only other site I found with a blackout like that was, wait for it, . . . . Daily Kos. So long term readers of the WP, like myself, would be among the last to know if they relied on the WP for breaking and relevant news regarding HRC, the FBI and her emails. How sad to think this is the paper of Woodward and Bernstein.
Wow.
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evening phoebe...
it looks like we need some new "newspapers of record."
I thought that was the EB!
"The electronic newspaper of record". Be sure to screenshot the most important/controversial stories, in case they disappear later.
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Yet newspapers wondered why
Yet newspapers wondered why people have turned to the internet - and often to comedians on the internet - for news as well as entertainment, rather than buying print media. Of course, the internet is to be taken over by corporate interests ASAP... and news or anything else not approved of by corporate interests advertised there is already being demonetized/removed on Youtube by 'don't-be-evil' Google, so that a more relevant alternative even to that must be found, while internet is still useful to real people.
Edit: why does it not occur to the corporate media that they've made themselves irrelevant and that the same will occur to the corporate-controlled and censored internet? What will we move to next? (I have plenty of books, thank goodness, lol.)
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Ellen, I always wonder the same thing when I watch
cable news - don't they know they've made themselves irrelevant BY NOT KEEPING UP?!
It's really weird that they think they are shaping opinions with lame talking points when a large part of their audience is laughing AT them and not with them. They have no insight that while they condescend and interpret events to their audience, their audience is onto them and beyond them.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
Hi, Phoebe!
Hi, Phoebe!
Or that that audience has shrunk, with their main 'basket of eyeballs' mostly, I suspect, much older people. But they're seemingly insulated by large incomes and enough name/face recognition to kid themselves that the propaganda machine works just as well as ever on the 'great unwashed masses' so carefully disinformed - and it does, on their little group, if they're isolated and never hear anything from grandkids or whoever.
Their only insight typically seems to be related to who's paying them to say what, not even whether what they're saying makes any sense or is accurate. On the other hand, I haven't watched TV in dunno how many years and only see newscasters in clips on the internet, where everyone is generally laughing at them in a post/comments, lol.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Hello Joe
Yes, we definitely need a new batch. I didn't mention the NYT, but the last time I looked there, I also didn't see this latest stuff.
To be fair, it's possible that the WP and the NYT take some pride in originating news and not being simply aggregators, but in the Internet Age, I would think you would need to be both. Keep people up to date and then interpret events more deeply with your own opinion or original reporting as it develops. If the stodgies like the WP and the NYT don't adjust, they are going to be memories in short order.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
To be fair, they should be covering it themselves
This isn't happening in Manchuria, but in the capital building in their own city.
Give up on Google
Don't know if this has something to do with it - but I gave up on Google a long time ago.
For an interesting "test"-
look for something on Google
Then, look for the same thing on Yahoo, or any other source - I like https://www.startpage.com/
Google is so in the bag for Shrillary, it's useless.
Also, WashPost sold out to Jeff Besos - big time ;(
I do that occasionally
And I have to say that I find the Google results usually broader and more interesting than any other. Google vs. Bing was no contest. I don't care for Google because of the privacy issues, but I think their results surpass others, so I grit my teeth and press on.
I like to sort by "newest" because I read so much that I usually don't need anything but the latest.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
DuckDuckgo is my go to search engine
my kids (millennials) told me about it and it has been working well for me.
That's what I'm using, with
That's what I'm using, with mixed search results. Especially regarding Hillary searches.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
I was out of the country when Watergate happened
so didn't follow the Watergate story until I came back, shortly before the 1972 election. As I remember it Watergate didn't become a continuing story until the trial for the Watergate burglars. Luckily one of the burglars made a plea agreement and the Judge wasn't in any mood to let the others off the hook, allowing the story to drag on. Could be this story would grow some legs if there is legitimate media somewhere.
This story has the same slow build as Watergate
and a lot of people are following it closely.
The major difference is that the public who cares is quite knowledgeable, they have self-educated themselves on the issues so that some pompous net nanny or astroturfer or Dem surrogate swooping down and sniffing "nothing burger" has little impact.
It's really the first political scandal with legs in a fully realized alternate media, social media world. Look at the fact that a Reddit amateur could have very possibly scooped the FBI!
That is what made Comey's sell job so difficult, actually impossible.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "
Thanks for the update Phoebe, would have missed that.
I'm glad that you read the Wapo so I don't have to. Don't know how you stomach it. When they ran the 16 hit pieces in as many hours on Bernie, I decided that was it.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e.e.cummings
I'm well and truly over them
Mostly because of the Capehart hit piece on Bernie over protest photo where he (Capehart) never apologized or owned up to his error and he's on the Editorial Board.
And then them (the Editorial Board) having the nerve to think they can dictate when a news event (Hillary's email) is over and/or "out of control".
But I remember and honor the glory days of the Washington Post. They changed history for the better.
Now they are a shell of what they once were - Delmonico's into a Burger King.
" “Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.” FDR "