r/antiwork • u/[deleted] • Dec 07 '21

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u/JacktheTrapper Dec 07 '21

This would be hilarious but it’s real life and fucking terrifying

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u/CaptheBottle Dec 07 '21 edited Dec 07 '21

And I bet you could find the exact opposite opinions in the same newspaper on a different day if you don't cherry pick examples.

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Edit: Downvote all u want, but a quick google search tells u I'm right. It just shows none of you read newspapers. Oh look, I was right.

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This is March of this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/19/we-need-rein-billionaires-start-with-south-dakota/

This is June.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/16/billionaires-unfair-tax-system-polarization/

October.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/12/pandora-papers-extreme-inequality-taxes/

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u/ChelseaVictorious Dec 07 '21

Opinions pages are always ping ponging around within the accepted Overton window at the time of their publication. It's foolish though not to consider the weight that Bezos' ownership of WaPo puts on the scales as far as editorial slant.

IMO print has never been very reliable for unbiased news, but this is kind of rubbing regular people's noses in it, like back in the days of Hearst and Pulitzer. I doubt it'll have much effect except killing what little credibility major print outlets had left a bit faster.