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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

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Gillian Brockell
@gillianbrockell.com

Btw I’ve been pitching a piece about this, some of my other observations while in that section and how it got to its current state of kak, hmu if you’re an editor who wants to pay me for it.

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Blasé Boylan
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This is exactly why I finally dumped my Wapo subscription. That the newspaper would platform Hugh Hewitt and Marc Thiessen, both patent liars, was a bridge too far. Give me a George Will or Charles Krauthammer anytime; I disagreed with them but they forced me to clarify my own thinking.

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Another insightful thread about the biased elite editors and their media owner billionaires: bsky.app/profile/gill...

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

Radley, if you don’t know, was a canary in the coal mine at WaPo Opinions, writing deeply reported pieces about police violence, which were utterly ignored by Opinions editors, who seemed hellbent on them NOT being seen during the peak of national interest. Then laid off for vague traffic reasons.