The press and Democrats have been giving birth to whole herds of cows over the supposed “shift” at the The Washington Post away from the left. Depending on who you ask, the paper is either Jeff Bezos’s personal pro-Trump bulletin board or a once-great newsroom that sold its soul. Or somehow both.
Now, the left always eat their own sooner or later, so it’s not a surprise exactly. And Democrats are incapable of tolerating anything short of absolute obedience in the media. So when one of the most central pieces of the progressive left’s propaganda kingdom for decades first became part of the Bezos empire over a decade agao, they had conniption fits right away.
But when WaPo didn’t endorse Kamala in 2024, the world really ended, and the sun was black as pitch and the moon was as blood. Then there were layoffs and the sports section was cut, and everyone in the rest of the mainstream media came together in religious certainty that it proved Trump controls the paper. And even though they’d all decided years ago and months ago that it was a right-wing outfit no longer worth of the paper it was printed on, the layoffs also somehow were a great and terrible loss to journalism and democracy and ice cream and whatnot.
But here’s the thing. That’s all stupid.
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