Why is this story buried on Page 10 of the Post?

[speak easy]

Tom Nichols
@RadioFreeTom
Page A10 of the Post. We’re not even shocked anymore.

Link to tweet

Why isn't on the front page along with a denunciation of his Nazi stich about immigrants from Africa, Asia and South America 'poisoning the blood of our country'. Sleepwalking into Fascism.

[speak easy]

1. ...

[erronis]

2. Because that rag is run by the plutocracy - still some good stringers on board

but the editorial staff is looking at the money flow - mainly income from owners.

Obviously the circulation department and reader opinions don't matter any more since their money contributions are way down. Don't know about online but I've canceled my subscription since The Guardian is a much better way to contribute to good news.

[brooklynite]

4. Which Page 1 story should have been replaced with this?

You know what they are, right?

[vanlassie]

9. I cancelled a year ago.

How about you gift us a freebie?

[brooklynite]

12. I wouldn't think of tainting your inbox with a right wing rag.....

[dpibel]

13. The one about James Biden?

A story about a transaction from before the turn of the century and an FBI investigation in 2007.

I realize it's a tough balancing act...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. James Biden is newsworthy, because he has been subpoenaed too.

https://apnews.com/article/hunter-joe-biden-impeachment-congress-subpoena-37fe9652539c2c501d8b8bd8c3cc8901

The Sunday Post front page has long analytical articles. Especially prized are long analytical articles about the inner workings of Washington DC.

[dpibel]

22. You don't say!!!

The question I was answering was "Which front page story would this replace?"

It was not, "Why is James Biden newsworthy?"

But I do thank you for filling me in on the fact that Joe Biden's brother, James, has been the subject of much attention from the Comer/Jordan party. Else I would never have known.

[Martin68]

23. I find the Guardian to be far more conservative than the Post.

[usonian]

3. Text versions are on the internet.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-quotes-putin-condemning-american-democracy-praises-autocrat-orban/ar-AA1lBJvy
WAPO, via MSN


https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/16/politics/new-hampshire-republican-primary-trump-immigration/index.html
CNN

In a statement released Saturday night, Biden campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said Trump “parroted Adolf Hitler” in his New Hampshire remarks.

“Tonight Donald Trump channeled his role models as he parroted Adolf Hitler, praised Kim Jong Un, and quoted Vladimir Putin while running for president on a promise to rule as a dictator and threaten American democracy,” Moussa said. “He is betting he can win this election by scaring and dividing this country. He’s wrong. In 2020, Americans chose President Biden’s vision of hope and unity over Trump’s vision of fear and division — and they’ll do the same next November.”

[sinkingfeeling]

5. I assume it's Washington Post.

[speak easy]

6. Yes.

Certainly not the NY Post.

[onecaliberal]

7. The fascist media wants it.

[Lonestarblue]

8. WaPo has been trending to the right for a couple of years now.

Think all their new opinion writers are right-wing hacks. My subscription us paid through next August, at which point I’ll be cancelling. The Post consistently has headlines and articles about Congress being dysfunctional but refuses to mention that it is Republicans who are making it dysfunctional. They still have some excellent reporters Ike Carol Leonig and Philip Rucker, but even they seem to gave fewer articles lately. The Graham family that published the Pentagon Papers would be dismayed at what the Post has become under billionaire Bezos, who seems to care more about profits and paying no taxes that informative journalism that supports democracy.

[Martin68]

24. I would strongly disagree that the Post fails to attribute Congressional dysfunction to Republicans.

I still find the Post to be the best available source of factual information. They also publish amazing in-depth stories on topics such as national problems with assisted living facilities, historical injustice against minorities, gun violence, and many other substantive topics.

[Lonestarblue]

25. Where I think the Post fails is often in its headlines.

Last week a prominent headline was “Worst. Congress. Ever.” Congress is the worst ever because Republicans make it so. But the headline quickly communicates to those who either just skim articles or skim headlines that all of Congress is bad, Democrats and Republicans. Such headlines are one reason so many people seem to think there’s little difference between the two parties.

Other headlines have related to dysfunction in the House without mentioning Republican dysfunction in the headline. But, yes, I agree with you that the Post does have some excellent reporters and articles. But it’s also telling that most of the opinion writers they’ve hired in the past year have all been right-wing writers to add to their fairly large collection of Republican apologists like George Will, Hugh Hewitt, Marc Theissen, Gary Abernathy, and Henry Olson.

[Martin68]

27. Only the uninformed fail to realize that Republicans are responsible for dysfunction in Congress and readers of the Post

are very well informed. Readers of the Post already understand why "Worst. Congress. Ever." is a fact. We don’t need hand-holding or elementary explanations about topics the paper has already drilled into us.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. What time did Trump's rally start?

Look that up for me, would you? Thanks.

Unless something Earth-shattering happens, the Post’s Sunday stories tend to be long and reflective. I don’t know what press time is on Saturday night, but a story needs to be something big for a “stop the presses!” moment.

Had Trump used the rally to announce that he was withdrawing from the race, that would have been front page news. Anything less than that, it’s not really that newsworthy, is it?

Spreading the story across the front page would have caused outrage at DU.

Putting the story on an odd-numbered page would have caused outrage at DU.

Putting the story on an even-numbered page would me have caused outrage at DU.

Putting the the story on the edge of a page would caused outrage at DU.

There are some things I can count on.

Here’s this morning’s front page:



Source: https://www.freedomforum.org/todaysfrontpages/#

[ShazzieB]

14. Excellent points, thanks!

I agree that as disturbing as 45's Nazi rantings are, the latest rally is not that newsworthy.

I'd be pleased to see more attention being drawn to his descent into fascism in the media, but this example doesn't bother me, for all the reasons you mentioned.

[AllaN01Bear]

11. if he dosent like amerika , leave . that is what the rs would tell us.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. They have to pretend he's not a threat in order to boost campaign ad spending.

[maspaha]

16. At least it appeared in WaPo

My expectations of the “newspapers of record” have really slipped, sorry.

[SocialDemocrat61]

17. Here is today's front page

Interesting they chose a “the Bidens might be corrupt” story from many years in the past instead of the Trump story from this week.

Damn liberal media.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

19. The James Biden story is timely, because

he’s been subpoenaed too.

https://apnews.com/article/hunter-joe-biden-impeachment-congress-subpoena-37fe9652539c2c501d8b8bd8c3cc8901

[SocialDemocrat61]

20. Stanley?

[emulatorloo]

21. IMHO not as timely/important as Trump quoting Putin and channeling Hitler.

FWIW I read the full story, deals with allegations about stuff that happened in 2007, and concluded there was nothing to Republican claims.

[GreenWave]

26. When I lived in South America buried in Scetion D over 100 pages deep was a headline

Found several decades ago in "El Universal" 99% percent of all the products we consume are of bad quality.

These findings were from quality control inspectors. If everything people buy is bad, you cannot trust business to fix it, nor the government . It would take coordinated consumer boycotts back then.