Comments on: Bad Media

By: Petronius Arbiter

Petronius Arbiter — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:40:11 +0000

You don’t read the WaPo very often, do you? Dean Baker at cepr.net blasts them nearly every day for putting their editorials in the news section, even (especially?) on the front page. He usually refers to them as “Fox on Fifteenth Street.” Sadly, the New York times is not much better, as Baker often points out. And even Krugman notices sometimes.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:38:25 +0000

Neither NPR nor the WaPo are “good” media. NPR fires people who participate in #occupy protests while retaining Bush staffers. The WaPo is a well-known fishpaper, better known as the Kaplan Test Prep Daily, which is kept afloat despite losing money in order to serve its corporate masters’ propaganda needs.

By: Auros Harman

Auros Harman — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:47:36 +0000

The WaPo, sadly, has sunk to only a few rungs above Faux News on the journalistic ladder. Their editorial page already sounds like the WSJ ed page did before the Murdoch takeover. It makes me sad; I grew up in MD, WaPo is one of my two home-town papers. At least the Baltimore Sun still exists, which is more than one can say for many local news sources…

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:40:59 +0000

Yeah, I’m not sure which journalists have done better recently. TV and radio news isn’t about delivering facts to the population. It’s just like any other TV or radio program; the intent is to attract viewers or listeners so they can sell more ad time at a higher price.

By: James

James — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:56:39 +0000

Well, no, actually. The journos at the Washington Post haven’t “done better” in a few years now. The “new management” either bought out or lost their best journos to the New York Times years ago. The people left there, I hate to say, are neck deep in mediocrity. Not a single journo worth reading is left at the Washington Post.

And the same can be said for NPR.

Maybe you are praising in hopes of improving performance. It will do no good, I can assure you.

By: Fred Donaldson

Fred Donaldson — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:45:04 +0000

The Washington Post has an agreement to use news from Fiscal Times on economic issues.

As Wikipedia notes:

“Initially funded by Peter G. Peterson, a billionaire who has long advocated for deficit reduction, The Fiscal Times has been accused by some liberal advocacy groups of having a political agenda. The first controversy occurred when the Washington Post published its initial Fiscal Times authored article on December 31, 2009, the Post recognizing the immediate “uproar” from bloggers and progressives over its partnership with the organization.”

You can fool most of the people some of the time, and buy some of the Press all of the time.