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Congratulations for running newspapers.
I think the world at large has figured out that it's wrong. 200,000 people have cancelled their WaPo subscriptions so far, and some people have written some pretty in-depth essays about exactly why it is such a huge problem:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/anticipatory-obedience-newspapers-endorsement-refusal
https://www.cjr.org/political_press/the-washington-post-opinion-editor-approved-a-harris-endorsement-a-week-later-the-papers-publisher-killed-it.php
The CJR's previous piece about anticipatory obedience also, as The Guardian notes, looks highly prescient now:
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anticipatory-obedience-bassin-potter-scheppele-orban-trump-hungary-media-punish.php
There have also been some pieces about how to try to keep good media alive now that conditions are becoming hostile to it:
https://www.citationneeded.news/i-am-my-own-legal-department/
Glad to have you in the conversation, I guess. Yes, it's not normal, it's very bad.
I wasn't trying to brag; this is just appalling, and when one speaks about the failure of journalism, it helps to have run a few papers.
CJR sounds great at first, but it's about as useful as Poynter. A lot of bluster with no real direction. Both put out some good stuff, but you have to have the same salt cellar.