I dunno; write a letter of complaint to the editor (for whatever that is worth) and/or subscribe to Ms. Telnaes Substack account, I guess? The reality is that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post, and despite earlier vowing to be hands off regarding editorial content has selected a publisher and is putting enough fear into the editorial staff to now second-guess what their fiscal master wants, and the same is true for the vast majority of newspapers and other media outlets, so…a win for ‘capitalism’.
I’ll just note that at the end of Weimar Germany, the once flourishing industry of independent newspapers virtually disappeared as publishers either bowed to the demands of the Nazi Party or found their presses destroyed and their staff threatened or imprisoned. Hitler himself quickly embraced the use of the then new form of wideband media, the radio, which due to its ephemeral nature was difficult to fact-check and could be used to disseminate big lies and conspiracy theories to the entire nation and even across national borders, and because of regulation of the airwaves the Nazis could suppress virtually all dissenting voices. Take that for what you will.
I’m expecting it. I find Petri to be hit and miss but sometimes she really nails it and despite coming from a moderately conservative background isn’t averse from going after any target that needs some skewering.
In other news, the Trump-backed federal bankruptcy court judge nullified The Onion’s parent company effort to buy Alex Jones InfoWars site at auction because:
Never mind that the auction was conducted per the judges’ instructions and the best overall result for the creditors (other than the Sandy Hook families, who agreed to forego their claims in order for the court to make higher restitution to everyone else). Corruption in plain sight seems to be the standard order of business of late.
They did actually publish an editorial critical of Bezos and his monkey puppet publisher William Lewis…which now seems to have been taken down. So….?
But at least they still feature opinions by Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen, so…balance, I guess?
Yeah. Several people have posted (at Bluesky, at least) some version of “when the Post introduced this slogan, we didn’t realize that they saw it as aspirational.”
I was older than I like to admit before I realized that The Gilded Age was not complimentary. I wonder that the Trump era is going to be dubbed by future historians.
That indeed we are-- the only newspapers I will read from henceforth are from a time when we actually had newspapers (I have a huge collection of old/vintage ones [most of which I’ve gotten from EBay], and not only were they quite objective on the news [plus sports and everything else, not to leave out very interesting columnists], they were also designed quite well as well [different areas had different designs that reflected the areas, so you never knew what you’d get, unlike these days where every paper of a chain has the same design; Gannett/UTN being the worst offender, IMO]).
I believe that cartoon is actually drawn by Barry Blitt as part of an invitation by Steve Brodner to other cartoonists to produce their own versions of the censored image in support of Ms. Telnaes. My favorite of these was Emma Cooks’ submission:
