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2024-01-31 -Obits-

RIP to the legacy media, 1974-2024

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Posted by Fred 2024-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [31 views ] Top

#1 Journalism was once the profession of working-class people, unglamorous and interested in just reporting facts.

It was a trade - apprentice, journeyman, master. Then the so called institutions of 'higher learning' got involved credentialing for fun and profit. Gone were the days of learning about reality of the world/city on the beat.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-01-31 07:50|| 2024-01-31 07:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I worked in the bidness. For a very long time the typical newsroom had 25 true believers for every common sense, eyes-open thinker.

It's not a recent phenomenon.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-01-31 08:21|| 2024-01-31 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 "Driving the narrative" and being the next Woodward & Bernstein became the goal, not reporting facts and keeping opinion in editorials

Posted by Frank G 2024-01-31 11:54|| 2024-01-31 11:54|| Front Page Top

#4 I caution everyone not to forget who the Washington Post's benefactor is and how he makes the money he uses to support WaPo's lies. WaPo would have lasted as long as it has without Amazon.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-01-31 12:51|| 2024-01-31 12:51|| Front Page Top

#5 WaPo would NOT have lasted as long as it has without Amazon.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-01-31 12:52|| 2024-01-31 12:52|| Front Page Top

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