What's This Massive Sucking Sound Where The Washington Post Used To Be?

[Nevilledog]

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We've got some serious cases with Big Media Suck this week, with the Washington Post going out of its way to muddle coverage with such ridiculous "both sides" framing that the Roman god Janus has asked them to kindly knock it the fuck off.

One story casually frames Republican efforts to undermine preventing the spread of the coronavirus as a political "win," and another blandly suggests that red and blue states are "moving in opposite directions" when it comes to letting their people vote, as if it were a high school "Compare & Contrast" assignment. A third purports to examine two different school systems' "radically different approaches to managing the pandemic" without saying right up front that one of those "approaches" doesn't so much manage the spread of the coronavirus as promote it, because what are face masks but a personal style choice?

Goddamn, WaPo, you're managing to suck harder than the New York Times when it was in full Cletus Safari mode. Let us castigate away!

Republicans Subverted Democracy. Will Democrats Do Something Rash?

Probably the worst of the three was this mess about how GOP "wins" on "abortion, voting and guns" in state legislatures have made for a "banner year" while Democrats at the national level struggle to get anything done, despite controlling " the elected levers of power in Washington." How deep is the quality of analysis? It features has-been anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist thoughtfully reflecting that both parties think they can control politics for the next 20 years, and Ralph Reed, another Reagan era throwback, getting awfully excited about what a bang-up job Republicans have done of filling federal courts with judges who'll do judicial activism to advance rightwing evangelists' agenda.

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[Joinfortmill]

1. 👍

[underpants]

2. Doctor Zoom rocks

[budkin]

3. Holy shit

That's pathetic.

[Cha]

4. Rt TY

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. WaPo is still light years better than NYT on the whole

NYT occasionally breaks ground with some investigations, but overall it is the worst when it comes to bothsiderism, access journalism (looking at you, Maggie).