When I was 11 years old, a babysitter took me to see All the President’s Men.
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When I was 11 years old, a babysitter took me to see All the President’s Men. I think she was in love with Robert Redford. But that afternoon, I fell in love with journalism - and the ideals of the crusading Washington Post. Maybe that was a Hollywood fantasy. But the WaPo remained my ideal all through my own journalism career. What a bathetic end to a legacy of excellence. Democracy dies in cowardice, it would appear. #WashingtonPost #WaPo
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
Years ago, when the Edmonton Journal was ordered by head office in Toronto to endorse Jim Prentice over Rachel Notley, I took to Twitter in outrage, to denounce that decision. I didn’t lose my job. But the editor-in-chief who protected me - and who went public with the news that we’d be ordered to write the piece - eventually lost hers. I would in no way compare Jim Prentice, a good and thoughtful man who was just the wrong leader in the wrong time, to Donald Trump. But the parallels…
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TanekRunereplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics
I'd like to believe that they can regain their name under new management, with plenty of time and change on their part. Though I am not about to hold my breath on that. -
Jean-Francois Mezeireplied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics A better editorial would have been:
Due to the threat of retaliation against dissenting media outlets, the Washington Post has decided to not ensorse any candidate. We let our readers decide whether such threats constitute an attack on free speech and for whom they shoudl vote for.(And this is how other media outlets should spin the WaPost/Bezos fear of endorsement).
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Tom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦replied to Senator Paula Simons last edited by
@Paulatics When I was but a kid, Woodward and Bernstein were why I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
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Senator Paula Simonsreplied to Tom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦 last edited by
@tombradleyjr I think their example is a huge reason that I shelved my original plans to go to law school and became a reporter instead. And any time someone called me “an investigative journalist” - I thought of them. I never broke a story on the scale of Watergate, let it be said. But their example mattered to me, a kid living in Edmonton, Alberta, a long long way from Washington DC.
