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Category Archives: Washington Post
What It Would Mean for the Washington Post to Put the Reader First?
The The New York Times sits near the center of the country’s intellectual life. The Wall Street Journal sits near its financial life. The Washington Post sits inside the federal state. Its reporters spend their days among members of Congress, … Continue reading
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Matt Murray: The Custodian
Matt Murray (b. 1966) holds a place in American journalism that rests less on a signature investigation or a body of prose than on his stewardship of large institutions through their hardest decades. He rose from the reporting core of … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The Washington Post Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are working overtime in the Washington Post’s newsroom, the executive suites at 1301 K Street, the digital-strategy war room, and Jeff Bezos’s private briefings right now. With the industry-wide pressures of AI disruption, subscriber churn, polarization, … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the battle for authority at the Washington Post
Journalists, editors, and executives at the Washington Post do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of Democracy Dies in Darkness, Speaking Truth to Power, Holding Power Accountable, or responsibility for sustaining the … Continue reading
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Decoding The Washington Post & The Iran War
Per Alliance Theory: The Washington Post is a major national outlet with deep ties to Democratic-aligned, establishment networks. Its audience overlaps with professional, institutional, center-left readers who care about governance norms, constitutional processes, and U.S. global leadership credibility. That position … Continue reading
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Washington Post Layoffs Represent A Professional Managerial Class (PMC) Losing Power
Carlos Lozada writes in the NYT an elegy for the Washington Post. ChatGPT says: Alliance Theory reads this essay less as a lament about journalism than as a coalition document written at the moment an alliance loses power. What Lozada … Continue reading
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Decoding the Washington Post Layoffs
ChatGPT says: This story is not about journalism economics. It is about a coalition collapse and a failed attempt to re-anchor it. 1. What the Washington Post actually was For decades, the Washington Post functioned as an elite alliance organ. … Continue reading
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How Many Jewish Columnists Does The Washington Post Need To Call Trump Hitler?
I am surprised he did not invoke the Holocaust more incessantly. Trump’s Hitlerian disregard for the truth By Richard Cohen I realize that the name Hitler has the distractive quality of pornography and so I cite it only with reluctance. … Continue reading
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I Wonder Where The Washington Post Stands On Donald Trump?
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I Wonder Where The Washington Post Stands?
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