What is happening with editorial boards is not normal. You need to understand this first.

They are not part of the newsroom, so anyone telling you that is lying. What happened at the LAT and WaPo are the beginning. Have you not read history? They come for you. You just think it’s more steps away.

  • Pete HahnloserOPM
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    225 days ago

    It looked a fuckload better when the alternative was venture capital. I wrote a post praising Bezos at the time, which didn’t age well.

    • CrimeDadA
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      224 days ago

      WaPo could certainly have done worse. It’s not unreasonable to expect that a billionaire might look after a newspaper like a rare classic car or other vanity purchase, that he would be content to keep it running nicely even if it’s ostensibly a poor investment.