It’s not a real paywall; for whatever reason they’ve chosen to make it readable without a subscription for everyone capable of rubbing together enough brain cells to manage a google search to find out how. Which I take advantage of when I’m using a device that doesn’t happen to be logged in.
We may not lmgtfy, per prior instructions.
I see the OP is most interested in science and medicine and I’ve found wapo similarly mediocre to other publications, with a lot of less-than-timely press release regurge. But I still read those articles and don’t recall having any issues re: accuracy.
You know, it costs something to run an actual newspaper. I didn’t object to paywalls.
I’ve found that WaPo is usually accurate, is usually not actively misleading (yes, I’m looking at you, NYT) and often gives a link to the actual study. At least, that’s what i found a few years ago. But those qualities made it a top tier general news source for science.
The Washington Post is my hometown newspaper. I grew up with it, starting in 1971, the Watergate days. I saw it go from a regional fairly-important paper to something approaching the national newspaper of record. Bezos squandered the decades’ worth of goodwill the paper had earned. I occasionally see a link on FB I’d like to read but there’s a paywall. Today, the paper filling the Post’s need is probably the Wall Street Journal. Wish they had a comics page!
I realize that this probably applies to many mundane things these days, like shopping at Amazon, which I’ll admit I sometimes still do. YMMV and I won’t judge such small things that may or may not fit into the lives of others.
The Boston Globe is subscription to read, but it is still a solid newspaper, handling national and international news well as well as regional. And it has comics!
I’ve switched to a subscription to The Guardian and annual contributions to our local NPR station. Not being owned by a billionaire is now a prerequisite for my supporting a news site.
I also subscribe to the guardian, and two NPR stations. WaPo still has valuable health and science reporting they don’t cover. Especially at the intersection of science and politics. Like
EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say