Shining broken glass washed up on a beach

[sovay]

It turns out I did not need to petition my parents to cancel their subscription to the Washington Post because they had never taken one out in the first place, but as a glass-rattling screech of the Overton window I did not enjoy the news about either it or the Los Angeles Times. I would prefer not to be told how fluffily naive it is of me to want to live in a democracy this time next year without any more of an asterisk next to it. Of course we have plans to vote. Of course I want it to matter.

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WAPO

[lauradi7dw]

I was already rolling my eyes at them for some of their coverage, but planned to keep the sub until the end of the year, and I'll stay that long. As of last night there supposedly had been 2000 cancellations. I know at least half a dozen of the people who cancelled, so there must be more. I think we have learned more by the ruckus than we would have if they had just gone ahead and endorsed. The reporting at the LA Times has been very good over time. I had no knowledge of their owner until this happened, and now I know. Heather Cox Richardson's letter this morning has clear background (among her other yesterday stories)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-25-2024
As part of the trend, I am now a supporter of the Mississippi Free Press
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/
and have re-upped by newsletter prescription to Teen Vogue.

Re: WAPO

[sovay]

I think we have learned more by the ruckus than we would have if they had just gone ahead and endorsed.

Understood. I'm just feel like I'm no longer a huge fan of quae nocent, docent if I ever was. Too much nocent.

As part of the trend, I am now a supporter of the Mississippi Free Press
and have re-upped by newsletter prescription to Teen Vogue.

I am glad you had alternate sources immediately to hand. And thank you for the link to Richardson's letter. I saw that Woodward and Bernstein issued their own statement.