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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by Rahul_Ligma on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:41AM (#33406407)
I think it would behoove you, given how easily they bent over for Bezos and have silenced opposition against him, to reflect back on the last two decades and compare various outlets (including the ones you don’t like because they don’t align with your political stance) and see just for how long they’ve been corrupted.

They didn’t wake up in 2013 and suddenly decide they won’t have any integrity.

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by photochemsyn on Monday October 31, 2022 @10:59AM (#33406707)
It's not that they don't align with my political stance, it's that they don't do their job of providing broad-spectrum information on the actions of governments and corporations. To emphasize, Top Secret America was an outstanding expose of the military-intelligence contracting system, but that was before Bezos got his ~600 million CIA web services contract, and soon after that he spent what, ~$250 million to buy the Post, after which that kind of investigative journalism was eliminated.

However, your point is pretty valid - back in 2002, the WaPo regurgitated US government talking points on (non-existent) Iraq WMDs without bothering to do any investigative pushback.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/10/11/c...

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Re:Twitter to lay off 25% of workforce in first round of job... by gamblor956 on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:43PM (#33410616)
They literally have a section of the website dedicated to investigative journalism, including a number of recent investigations into government contractors, military officials, government corruption (all of these in October 2022!). Going back more over the past 6 months, you have investigations into police brutality, election integrity units, more coverage of government contractors and corruption, police corruption, and lawmaker self-dealing.

What more are you expecting from them?

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