will lie about anything at all. His moral degradation is more evident by the day. Slathered in make up as if in imitation of his North star–does he experiment at home?– Vance recounts on Bartiromo’s freak show on Fox Propaganda an either imaginary or a staged conversation where Trump. who has insulted and demeaned veterans over and over again, now allegedly praised dtem to J.D.’s very own ears.
Spare us.
The Landmarks “Preservation” Commission is a city organization that now seems to largely exist for the purpose of withholding landmark designation from deserving properties. It had the audacity to dispute the factual information unearthed by Village Preservation concerning tthe storied history of 50 West 13th street. the last surviving 19th century row house on the block between Fifth and Sixth Avenues,
Yes, as I told you all in 2021, I made my theatrical debut here in 1969, when it was the 13th Street Theater. But, believe it or not, even that does not exhaust the building’s historical importance!
From VP:
“From 1858 to 1884, it was home to Jacob Day, one of New York’s most wealthy and successful 19th century African American businessmen and real estate owners, crusader for African American civil rights, and a prominent supporter of African American institutions.
” Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet, a prominent leader in the movements for abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and advances in education,l ived in the building for close to a decade.”
For over three years, the LPC has been stonewalling attempts by VP and other preservation advocates to win landmark designation for this notable piece of NYC history. They are allowing the owner to neglect it to the point of no return. Every time I walk by it’s in worse shape–the windows now are broken.
Once again, a reminder that moguls are an absolute disaster running anything that is designed to fulfill a public interest.
Instead of sicc-ing Will Lewis and his white, male, politically reactionary cronies on the Washington Post, Bezos could subsidize the paper without the necessity of even a cut to his pizza take-out budget.
It’s worth nothing that as Bezos has been making more and more far-right public pronouncements, he has been steadily replacing top-level Post staff with the like minded.
It’s also exceedingly rich that the Wall Street Journal has just laid off more journalists despite Murdochland posting record profits. Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker spouts generic gibberish along the lines of advertising slogans to defend her decision. Were Stone’s cutbacks responsible for the disgraceful lapse in QC evidenced by the WSJ’s hit job on Biden earlier this week?
Tucker is behaving true to form as a Murdoch puppet, and, again, we see that moguls’ commitment to journalism and the public good is transactional at best.
And why does America continue to believe that Brits know more about journalism than we do?
Executive editor Sally Buzbee refused and shortly afterward she was out at thePost.
Is it not possible for Bezos to find someone savory to run the Post?
Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson report in the Times on one of the initial lowlights of Lewis’ tenure. There already have been many more.
Any grand jury in this ountry would laugh any one of the GOP’s retribution prosecutions out of court.
about the fact that Trump insists “there’s never been anything like it” about every single item on his agenda and personal grievance docket?
On the Maddow blog, Steve Benen analyzed the Journal’s outrageous violation of journalistic ethics: It relied “on Biden’s Republican foes — during an election season — to substantiate one of the Republican Party’s core criticisms of the Democratic incumbent.”
Everyone at the WSJ involved in their hit job on Biden yesterday should be put on suspension. And I say this as someone who hates the idea of haircuts being administered to journalists, but the punishment should fit the crime.
Otherwise, we know what conclusion to draw.
Ir’s really the only explanation that makes sense. Lewis is an atrociously bad fit for the Washington Post, as was demonstrated when he called an editorial meeting and then proceeded to insult the Post’s distinguished journalistic personnel. Murdoch’s yeomen never know how to function outside their louche, authoritarian bubble.
The giveaway: Lewis at his get acquainted meeting boasted that he was going to pursue “untapped audiences.” Welcome to the Murdoch tabloidization of the Post.
Bezos has tortured, not nurtured the Post. It’s as if he lacks any respect for it, beginning with his demand for ersonnel cuts the moment he acquired the paper. He is nickel-and-diming them into free fall.
His henchman are now running the paper, and are likely to steer the Post into a Trump-subservient, Tory-branded retreat.
Dan Froomkin at Presswatchers clues us in to what to expect. Owner Bezos installed Murdoch toady Will Lewis, whose record is squalid to say the least, as publisher. OK, could we stop deluding ourselves that mogul ownership doesn’t influence editorial coverage?
Bezos refuses to adquately fund the Post, and therefore Lewis presided over the disastrous buy-outs of last fall, which crippled the editorial staff.
Lewis has wasted no time in “unceremoniously driving out executive editor Sally Buzbee and replacing her with two additional white male former Murdoch henchmen.”
Question: Why are Murdoch-ites considered qualified to run a legitimate, mainstream news organization? And why does America need to provide employment opportunities for right-wing British media executives?
The overfed Speaker Johnson feasts on our democracy while children in Gaza starve.
“And I would say to Speaker Johnson that when you attend your fundraising dinners with your billionaire friends, and you eat your fine steaks and your lobsters and your other wonderful food, please remember these pictures from Gaza.”
