No man, you just wrote a good read. I totally agree with every word, and you’re 100% right about the Israel side of things and coming in with full support for the controlled opposition. I have not and will not forgive them for bothsidesing the current insanity – and just as recently as November 21 David Brooks was writing about how the Epstein files are not important and there’s nothing to see there, etc. There’s not a word you wrote that I’d take fault with: I’ve seen the same myself.

But funny enough, what you went through with NYT, I went through with WaPo, even down to the selective censoring of comments. The same building of rage, thinking I was being petty and then realizing, no, there really is shady, very selective shit going on, for example juxtaposing established fact next to unrelated commentary to make it seem as if the two are actually together. Like when the sabotage of cables and such started in the North Sea and WaPo would directly intersperse the established facts of the incident with mentions of various Ukrainians but without actually linking them, allowing the skimming eye to do that for the reader who would then come away thinking there was proof Ukrainians were involved. Literally yellow journalism 101. It almost caught me too, except there was enough inner what??? to make me read it a second time, and much more carefully, and that’s when I saw it for myself – but imagine all who didn’t, and still don’t. I’m STILL pissed about that, to be honest.

Then Bezos hiring that shady fuck Will Lewis from the Murdoch rag News of the World was just the last straw: I quit my subscription January 1, 2024, the day before he started at WaPo, because I knew where it was going. Ever since then I’ve watched from afar as yep, it did indeed go there, and Will Lewis completely failed to turn things around even as he brought his own scandals over here with him. Ever since then it’s been a subscriber exodus, especially after he broke the WaPo editorial tradition of coming in for support of a candidate so as to not allow them to offer it to Kamala, but I was long gone by then.

Latest WaPo news is that a few days ago, after Bezos laid off 300+ staffers, including all the sportwriters (which is a thing in itself, if you’ve ever read WaPo), Will Lewis quit.

I’d go back, but there’s nothing left to go back to but AP wire stories and AI comment summaries, plus fuck Bezos, so no.

But yeah. Both of them. It’s sad to see what they’ve become. I’ve kept one US subscription for now, NYT, but these days I give money to the Graun.