'Finally Learning': Trump White House Praises Washington Post For 'Overhauling' Its Newsroom

[Mr. Sparkle]

Source: Mediaite.com

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took a moment to “commend” The Washington Post over recent editorial and newsroom changes that have sparked backlash against the outlet.

At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Leavitt declared that The Washington Post and other “mainstream media” outlets are “finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers.”

Leavitt said:
I would like to commend The Washington Post who I believe is in the room today. According to a new report from Axios, The Washington Post is overhauling their newsroom structure. It appears that the mainstream media, including The Post, is finally learning that having disdain for more than half of the country who supports this president does not help you sell newspapers. It’s not a very good business model. And that is why we have people in our new media seat.”

Axios obtained a staff memo from executive editor Matt Murray at The Post laying out major newsroom structure changes meant as part of the paper’s larger effort to reach a wider audience and move away from perceptions of being too far left. Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post, made waves last month when he announced drastic changes to The Post and the departure of the paper’s opinion section editor David Shipley after Bezos told him his section would need to prioritize personal liberties and free markets as topics. Despite the editorial changes, The Post’s opinion section has remained critical of President Donald Trump and close ally Elon Musk.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/finally-learning-trump-white-house-praises-washington-post-for-overhauling-its-newsroom/

[JohnSJ]

1. Which is why I no longer subscribe to them.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

5. I haven't bought an issue since Bezos took over.

Fuck that little bald prick.

[mdbl]

14. I didn't renew Amazon prime either

nor have I bought anything on Amazon.

[Ocelot II]

2. I'd cancel my subscription if I hadn't already done it when Bezos pulled the Harris endorsement.

In fact, I'm tempted to re-subscribe just so I can cancel again.

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Bezos

just earned himself a whole new wave of WaPo subscribers cancelling their subscriptions.......
He wants the best of both worlds, he may get alot less than he reckoned for.........

Same for the NYTimes licking the RepubliCONs feet, and kissing Trump's ring.....

I think it is important for both of those papers, and any others, to recognize that the Trumphumpers CAN'T/WON'T READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Magoo48]

3. Kiss ass collaborators.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. And as a result of their editorial restructuring, they're losing talented writers and editors.

Yesterday, Ruth Marcus resigned after 40 years at the Post.

[NCDem47]

6. Becoming a propaganda rag

All so Trump doesn’t meddle in Bezos’ other businesses.

So obvious it’s a bone being thrown.

[cstanleytech]

7. More like turning it into just another Republican free PR arm where real news doesn't matter.

[GusBob]

9. Who, what, where, when, why, how

Lets see if the WP believes that "more than half the country who supports this president" is true

Do they have the journalistic integrity to point out this is factually not true

They will publish that lie

[Paladin]

10. Yeah, big congrats to the Post, for making trump so happy.

That's a helluva journalistic achievement, there. Hope people remember it for a long, long time.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. The Washington Post could never have been called "too far left" in a sane, free country

It's always been solidly pro-capitalism. it's just had a tradition of opposing corrupt government (not that it has always followed that perfectly). But I've seen idiots call the Financial Times "left wing" too.

[Bozvotros]

12. Ms "See You Next Tuesday" Leavitt

oozes her obscene smarmy obsequiousness every day but it seems worse to me on Tuesdays. When she brings her slime trail to the podium to scold people, I find myself wishing someone in the press corp would throw salt on her just to see what would happen.

[mdbl]

13. It's going to be difficult for the Washington Post

Since most Magats don't seem to know how to read.