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The Washington Post is just so profoundly embarrassing now

One big reason why I canceled our subscription: the Bezos bludgeoning of Washington Post journalism seemed to have left intact the smooth-brained pundits in an opinion section that had been problematic for years.

Karl Bode

@karlbode.com

oh I think making smooth-brained contrarian engagement trolling a very forward part of the brand is a key part of both the new NYT and WAPO business models they actively made it worse to generate clicks

8/5/26, 4:27 pm4 reposts65 likes

Thom Tillis is Toast.

@thomtillisistoast.bsky.social

9 May

This is not happening in a vacuum. Of course they are doing it for clicks. They AB test headlines throughout the day.

Josh Halpern trading as

@elirabett.bsky.social

9 May

Invented by the Wall Street Journal