On Monday, the Washington Post ran an editorial by its owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, admitting that sane people no longer trust the mainstream media. The essay probably tried to address several different issues. First, the Washington Post’s revenues are cratering. Last year, it burned through Bezos’s cash like a drunken sailor in Olongapo. A second issue is tied to the first. Major newspapers are increasingly viewed as partisan outlets, mostly because they are. This limits the outlet’s market to about a third of the adult US population because the other two-thirds don’t trust it.
The press has done this to themselves. They’ve been throwing away credibility w/both hands for oh, decades. Most ppl are only noticing now b/c the handfuls have gotten so much bigger. If media members can’t free themselves of their enthrallments, a nation can’t survive.
