NY Times or WAPO

[cilla4progress]

and why?

Our local paper - which has taken a hard right turn recently - no longer includes a digital subscription to the Post.

Time for me to pony up.

Recommendations?

[FromTheAshes]

1. I would alternate then. They both deserve support period. nt

[DonViejo]

5. I have 'scripts to both but prefer the Post. I read the Post daily, from page one to the end...

I only read NYT articles if the email they send out daily lists articles I'm interested in.

[LAS14]

2. If you're going to subscribe, I'd go with the times, as they're...

... better on the world as a whole. Post stories will show up in the Times the next day.

[handmade34]

3. we need

a communal subscription to both...

I have one for NYT (because they gave me a really good deal!) and really don't want to spend the money for WAPO but sure hate getting blocked

[shanti]

16. I have Ad-blocker

so I can read the WAPO, just cannot see the comments.

[budkin]

4. They are both fantastic

That is a really tough choice but I'm a New Yorker and biased towards the Times.

[OliverQ]

6. I consider WaPo better. My friend works for them.

NYTs tends to do some shady stuff to pander to the both-sides argument. But they do some great investigative reporting.

[mcar]

7. I prefer the Post, SO the Times

We have digital subs to both.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. I have digital subscriptions to both.

In general I think WaPo has better editorial writers but both papers have good stuff.

[msdogi]

9. Support both

If you can afford it, subscribe to both. Our paid subscriptions are vital to the well being of our independent press. If only one, I would go with WAPO, I find it a really good read most days.

[brooklynite]

10. Both

Both are doing hard-hitting journalism. Both deserve to be able to pay their reporters.

[bearsfootball516]

11. Both are good, but I subscribe to WAPO.

[hlthe2b]

12. WAPO free for six months with Amazon Prime. After that it is only $3.99/month

It has been as much the paper of record lately as NYT--and I can't afford the NYT.

[cilla4progress]

19. Hmm...

not seeing this deal.

Great suggestion though! Thanks.

[hlthe2b]

20. You have to go through Amazon Prime-- NOT through WAPO directly.

[cilla4progress]

22. Yes,

I am.

Found it..put in search term "washington post subscription special deals" and it finally came up.

Thank you !!

[Hortensis]

13. WaPo hasn't pulled the extremely corrupt anti-Democrat tricks the NYT and AP

have been caught in. And during Hillary's campaign, the WaPo was noticeably less biased than the chronically hostile NYT.

I canceled the NYT for cause and kept the WaPo, but then the Times had a long time of breaking stories and I ended up resubscribing, so we have both, plus the LA Times. When the nation calms down, I'll cancel the NYT and keep the WaPo.

[still_one]

14. Washington Post. I used to subscribe to the Times, but as far as I am concerned they have been

going down hill for some time. What did it for me though was when they blamed it on President Obama and the Democrats for forcing the republicans to reject climate change:

"The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/us/politics/republican-leaders-climate-change.html

but there were a lot of other examples as far as I am concerned also

[matt819]

15. Shouldn't be either/or

If you have the money, go with both.

Certainly the liberal perspectives are comparable, and the reporting from both is good.

If you can go with only one, I'd go with the NYT, mainly for their op-ed pages. Plus, today's likely Pulitzer-Prize winning piece on the Trump family is an indication of what the NYT can do and should do more of. I think the Wapo also has its scoops, but you asked the question today, and you can't ignore that particular elephant in the room.

[Gothmog]

17. I subscribe to the Washington Post

[mulsh]

18. I have on line subscriptions to both. It's always nice to know what the powers that be feel

we need to know. That said they are both reliable source of factual news. The Post has a great comics page.

For me the correction page is the most important page in any paper. It give you an idea of how precise and timely the paper or news agency is.
The NYT makes it very easy to find their page. The post tends to post corrections with the article.

Most mediocre news agencies don't bother with corrections

[JonLP24]

21. You have to call to cancel NYtimes

Really the only drawback but I still subscribe but I wish it had a cancel online choice.

[Greybnk48]

23. WAPO. I don't trust the NYT because of

some of their people (beginning with, but not limited to Judith Miller), and some of the stories they've strategically posted for political effect.

I subscribe to WAPO on line.

[MiniMe]

24. WAPO for me

It is the "local" paper.