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I backed away from an adjunct gig because of lousy treatment. I am paid less now for my teaching, but still do rewarding work and, importantly, the main org that pays me respects its instructors. That job might or might not last (federal recission). So, I have like three jobs now... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Turns out "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was actually a mission statement for #WAPO #Journalism #USMedia is a monumental pile of shit

Sometimes I wonder...nope...not really...I don't.

After 40 years as a print subscriber, switched to digital and then cancelled completely in the past 12 months. I wish I could support the remaining journalists, but can't stomach giving anything to the stinking pile of 💩 that is in charge.

You made the right call. And if your new SNAP benefits don't come through, let us know and we'll be happy to contribute to your Go Fund Me.

Why are you still reading the Washington Post????

Doing the right thing is hard. But it’s the right thing.

It takes some balls do give up the steady pay and you did it. Also, I think it’s a hidden blessing NPR was cut off from fed money… journalists like you belong there. I hope the whores stay at the WP and REAL journalists find their way to NPR or similar media.

Rest easy my friend…you done good.

“thriving”? The people want a word.

It was. Integrity matters.

Waiting for the WaPo story on Andrew Cuomo, son of sharecropper on a small Georgia cotton farm.

They have gone right down to where the scumbags lurk.

Puh-leeze.

Right call

Uhmmm, wonder what they said about... the Kennedys? Roosevelt? Bush...No, no, wait, Trump?

Only a shallow asshole writes stuff like that

I stopped reading WaPo editorials to avoid being triggered. I’m much calmer and more intellectually fulfilled. Do t have to fret about the many journalistic shortcomings of WaPo.

You did the right thing and I admire you for it because integrity is in really short supply these days…

As someone who made that transition in another field 10 years ago, let me say that the first two years feel the most uncertain as you find your niche and audience (or customers, in my case). After that, it feels a lot more solid, and you start to enjoy the creativity of charting your own path.

Wait - who was born rich & privileged and is adopting a worldview that is destroying the economy that made America thrive? You're talking about who?

Are they talking about Musk? Bezos?

I applied to Amazon 15 years ago and not a day goes by where I don't thank the good Lord I didn't get that job.

You'll need the paycheck to get a ticket to the space colony: tech.yahoo.com/science/arti... Along with remembering to renew Amazon Prime, always remember that Mamdani's going to screw up all our chances for a luxury space colony!

No one has any respect for anyone still there, so you made the right call.

Woof! That’s grim

“Born into wealth and privilege” and chose to do good instead of Trump who has squandered every gift he has been given and chosen a life of every type of crime from pedophilia to theft to extortion to cold-blooded murder.

My first thought as well

Its honestly a shame and great loss at the failure and collapse To see the WAPO and NYT fall so hard and fast is just heartbreaking.

they could probably increase their subscriber base by offering a hard news only subscription so that you avoid the editorials completely. The editorial side is now a tout sheet for Bezos, they should just sell if for a nickel on the corner.

Free markets and personal liberties, Philip. FMAPL!

Bezos’ farts stink to high heaven

That was for President of the United States, but this is for the mayorship of someone in another town, makes sense!

Yep, that's when I quit my longstanding subscription.

Immediately preceding the day I cancelled my subscription?

Imagine if they wrote about Trump like this last year (and with vastly more of a basis).

Last November?

If you told me this was one of the College Republican guest columns I used to edit for my school paper I'd have believed you. I didn't pay $15 a month for that and I ain't doing it anymore now

Indeed I do. It was the day I cancelled my subscription. Between paper and digital, I had subscribed for 35 years

Yea, I unsubscribed due to that purulent bullshit.

This isn't an anti-endorsement, these are just the facts and we all know how devoted to facts the WaPo is!

Funny that they said they would still do local endorsements, but haven't done any this year for the Virginia elections and no one even seems to have noticed...

This reminded me to go into my account to cancel. Would have auto renewed December 17th...

Post is starting a new history: scurrilous attacks on candidates who threaten wealthy racists.

It can hardly come as a surprise that the Bezos class is apoplectic about the Mamdani threat. More overt attacks will come if he wins the election. Takes courage to leave a job on principle. Kudos and thanks for that to all that have abandoned the Post tragedy.

I recall how they really embraced the "democracy dies in darkness" ethos

There was a sentence in the editorial "Supporters of free markets have failed to articulately make their case in New York" and it's just one of those "okay that's technically a sentence but... you're a newspaper. And you have editors that should tear their hair out seeing that written."

It makes it far easier for me to continue not subscribing to know that I'm not missing out on your excellent reporting and analysis there, so thank you.

Vous n'avez pas peur que Musk truque encore les élections ?

Sometimes, I wish I could re-subscribe to the Post just so I could re-unsubscribe.

It's their loss.

I admire those who gave up the paycheck. I admire those who fight the system from within until let go. I don't admire those who let their voice used for evil just for a paycheck. There is no one currently at WaPo that I admire. And sadly I now root for its demise.

While I felt like cancelling my WaPo subscription last year was the right decision based on the paper’s worsening editorial drift to the right, I regretted leaving the writers there whom I really respected, Mr Bump being one of them.

So...the Bezos Post is now openly denigrating him because he's a traitor to his class? Well, that explains all the hate and fearmongering directed against him by the oligarchy's propaganda outlets. Nothing obscenely rich people hate and fear more than a president who knows exactly how they roll.

Fucking fucking fuckwits! Fuck em all! What absolutely disgusting drivel. You made the right call Philip...

wapo is the sound a wet sunday paper makes when thrown at a wall.

lemme guess - George Will?

Having cancelled my subscription a year ago I'm only sad that I can't do it again.

So glad I cancelled my subscription a year ago. If you have not, the time is NOW!

Sounds like their talking about Donald J Trump

That actually sounds exactly like Trump

It's just straight up propaganda for rich people now. Well, and suitable for wrapping fish or as an underpad for litter boxes.

🤦‍♀️

That editorial could apply to Musk, Thiel, Sacks, Andreeson and all the rest of the Techbro-Paypal mafia as easily as to Mamdani. Destroying the system that made them wealthy? Has the editorial author read anything by Curtis Yarvon? I guess burning it all down is fine if the rich own the ashes.

If you are a writer / reporter by trade and you own a soul, it is not possible to work for The Bezos Post.

The post is an embarrassment

Absolutely the right decision Philip. 👏 👏 🙏 Utterly disgraceful - yet again- from the billionaire, Trump acolyte owned @washingtonpost.com

#ConscienceFreePlutocratLife #BackToWork #OpenTheGovt #DoYourJob #PayForSNAP #SwearHerIn #LockHimUp #RogueExecutive #JusticeRobertsPrezImmunity #PosseComitatus #ICEGestapoTerrorists #WhatsWrongWithYou #BasicHumanRights #RandomAirStrikes #FalseFlag #SalvadoranSanitoriumPrison #ShitholeCountry

Immigrants and people of color can never be grateful enough for them, can they?

At least you made the decision to cut them out, instead of the inevitable when THEY would have cut YOU!

Sometimes I wonder if paying WaPo $20 for my annual subscription is waaaayyy too much.

Absolutely gross!

if elected he would be the mayor what powers do they think the NYC mayor has meanwhile, that description fits someone who does actually have that power

Having options & remaining satisfied w a steady paycheck at Wash Post, Lockheed Martin, tesla, Space X, etc. is beginning to look a lot like having options & remaining satisfied w a steady paycheck at VW in 1943 . . .

Yes, WaPo really going downhill.

Ah, the old "money vs integrity" challenge. A classic in the last three or four decades of American life. I think choosing "integrity" gets easier as you get older. I'm one of many who are glad you chose the way you did.

Omg It sounds like I am a "privilege traitor" as well -- now can we feed the poor?

👏 Bravo! I left a lucrative job too, and never regretted it. Morals supersede all else.

Godspeed 🙏🏾 Like a phoenix 🐦‍🔥 rising from the ashes, real journalism will rise again. And former subscribers like me will be your loyal readers. That kiss —ss article from WAPO sucked.

These people are shameless and deserve to be shunned.

Oddly enough, that quote actually applies more directly to the current occupant of the White House.

Perfect comment.

You would have gotten laid off, separated for not writing The Post's Values anyway.

Every accusation is a confession. Trump voters knew and wanted Trump to tear everything down. They project that Democrats are the same when they so clearly are not.

What a long-winded way to say "class traitor"

you have your decency and your humanity it's priceless

Well we, or at least I, am glad you’re out here in the wild acting up!

I think being entitled is a problem if you don't know how to live without. When you have that experience it gives you a totally different outlook of the problems.Taxing the rich is not a new solution.Tax rates of 92%, 94% were done. It was 88% or higher from 1942 to 1963. Imagine what could be done.

You are a journalist. It is close to impossible thebe a journalist there

Doing the right thing often sucks. Thanks for doing it anyway.

So born into privilege and criticizing the system is bad? I guess we should only listen to the poor about how great everything is

The Bezos Post is a disgrace to journalism. Right along with the Ellison-Weiss CBS News. They all must be scorned and shunned.

Honor and dignity are priceless, but I hope that you also find a way to make ends meet while keeping those intact

Well, the good news is: no one reads the WaPo any longer, nor puts any stock in its editorial page, so there's that...

The oligarchs are really afriad of this dude, huh?

Either way it was a tough call and you have your soul.

You should feel really good about yourself. When history looks back and asks, what did you do? You can say the brave thing.

You’re too good for them!