No. of Recommendations: 3
...was spot on.
In a contest between thought bubbles and reality, reality always wins:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28...The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media
Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. The American legacy media has
earned the contempt it gets and declining revenue it receives because it's devolved into nothing more than the propaganda arm of the democrat party: Stories are biased, are often predicated on false premises, things inconvenient to the democrat party are dismissed by way of "Republicans pounce" phraseology or ignored entirely. Further, when stories are provably untrue or falsehoods shouted from the rooftop, any corrections made - if ever - are several days late and always appear on page Z59.
Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world? To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will be a return to the past, and some will be new inventions. Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world. None of this will be easy, but it will be worth it. I am so grateful to be part of this endeavor. Many of the finest journalists you’ll find anywhere work at The Washington Post, and they work painstakingly every day to get to the truth. They deserve to be believed.Many of them don't deserve to be believed, and that's where we are. Bezos has his work cut out for him here.
He'll need to turn over probably 80-90% of the staff of the Post and replaced them with people who understand that the truth is the mission, and not the "progressive truth" that views the world through a massively distorted lens.
Making matters worse he's going to have a hard time finding new recruits who haven't been marinated in the same kind of bad training that his currently employees have received.
Good luck, Jeff! You're gonna need it.
