Hacker News Reader

Comment by throwworhtthrow | Hacker News Reader

The same week that WaPo announced their new editorial policy, I added a uBlock Origin rule to delete the opinion sidebar. It's basically ads run by Jeff Bezos now. There's no reason to expose oneself to it.

Their news reporting is, for now, still decent (and retains its familiar slant).

View on HN

The editorial section is really embarrassing. It wasn't really great before but now so many "Editorial Board" pieces are some of the most fact-free power-praising pieces. I rolled my eyes at the "democracy dies in darkness" stuff but that was at least something.

It's fun to jump into the comments, they added voting to the comments and Wapo editorials are really not coming off well.

We have a similar, Murdoch-owned newspaper, The Australian. The news is actually OK, but the editorials and the choice of front-page headlines are some of the most tendentious conservative bullshit you can imagine.

This seems to exist in almost every democratic country now, and it seems to work on quite a few voters.

I am always wondering about the hacks writing these pieces, in what place do you have to be mentally to be, essentially, a paid propagandist?

The news part of Fox News was essentially fine for a long time. When Trump got angry about their election coverage of Arizona (they correctly called it for Biden), the response was to reorganize the department, and that ceased being true.

Trump was annoyed enough that he started threatening to start a Trump TV network and poach their stars.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com