Finally canceled my Washington Post subscription

[Stoic]

I've been getting it for 25 years along with the Baltimore Sun. It's been primarily inertia that's kept me from from quitting up to now. That and a vague memory of when I used to scan both papers cover to cover daily. When you can no longer trust the news division to report honestly, it's time to give up and it's been years since I could say that about the Post.

I wish I knew of a decent daily paper that still had some integrity. I'd get a subscription through the mail in a second but not even the NY Times, with it's blatant war mongering and lying weasel editors can make that cut.

I grew up in Chicago, lived in L.A. and now in Maryland and was a reliable reader of their dailies. Right Wing owners have systematically destroyed each paper in turn. Of course, I'm only a Dirty Fucking Hippie™ so I don't matter.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Their "ombudsman" is beyond belief

I'm still nursing a grudge for the Dana Milbank story about Conyers basement hearings before the Dems got the majority.

I wonder how the Boston Globe is holding up?

[madinmaryland]

6. Deborah Howell is unbelievably biased toward the right wing editors.

[Warpy]

2. They're all pissing and moaning that readership is down

after they've developed an editorial policy that is hostile to most of their readers (illiterate right wingers don't get newspapers), fired a lot of their writers in favor of running canned corporate stuff, and increased the ratio of advertising to print to the point that the readable part of the paper is often one short, skinny column per page throughout much of the paper.

If they'd started a campaign to destroy the industry completely, they couldn't have done a better job.

If I still had access to a daily of the same editorial content and quality writing the Boston Globe had back in the 70s, I'd still be subscribing to the daily paper. I'd love to spend an early morning reading the paper and drinking my tea. Unfortunately, the only day the local right wing fishwrap is worth the money is Saturday, the day they print the weekly TV schedule.

It's a sad commentary on corporatized newspapers that the only things worth reading in them are the classifieds and the TV schedule.

[Strelnikov_]

3. What is the Sun like?

Did it go the way as was depicted in the final season of 'The Wire'?

[tularetom]

4. According to my brother who lives in MD it's every bit as bad as The Wire

They got bought out by a chain from Chicago, fired all the old timers, brought in a bunch of corporate stooges, abandoned all journalistic ethics in favor of sensationlistic stories designed to get prizes, and lost the capacity to speak truth to power.

There is a free daily paper that survives only on advertising revenues that apparently has greater circulation than the Sun.

[Strelnikov_]

7. Christ, that sounds just like the newspaper subplot in the final season n/t

[BonnieJW]

5. How about The Huffington Post?