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On Mon, 6 Jan 2025 11:29:34 -0500, moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>On 1/5/2025 9:42 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On 2025-01-04 10:58 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>> On 1/4/2025 6:28 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>> On 2025-01-04 6:03 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>> On 1/4/2025 5:17 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-01-04 4:58 PM, moviePig wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Read it and weep...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the- 
>>>>>>> washington- post
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't disagree with her basic principle but I wonder how many 
>>>>>> times she held Biden and his administration to account? I'll bet 
>>>>>> she found reasons to give them a pass....
>>>>>
>>>>> Alarmingly irrelevant, but here you go:
>>>>>
>>>> Irrelevant? Hardly! You don't get to cry "hypocrite!" at tech bros 
>>>> unless you're free from hypocrisy yourself. Given how the WashPost 
>>>> refused to see Biden's mental decline until the June debate despite 
>>>> it being obvious to anyone with eyes, I have every right to be 
>>>> suspicious of her only being upset now that she can't depict the tech 
>>>> bros in a negative light.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/biden-fantasy- 
>>>>> world- ann-telnaes-cartoon/
>>>>>
>>>>> ...and...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/ann-telnaes- 
>>>>> cartoon- biden-israel/
>>>>>
>>>>> ...etc.
>>>>
>>>> Those links would be great if I had a subscription but I don't: I get 
>>>> a big subscription window that covers much of the cartoon and doesn't 
>>>> let me scroll down to see the caption.
>>>
>>> They're some of her Biden cartoons.  I arrived at the links via Google 
>>> ("telnaes cartoon biden") and encountered no paywall.
>>>
>>> However, *her* potential bias ("hypocrisy") isn't the issue here.  
>>> E.g., she could even be hired as Ultra-Liberal Attack Dog.  What's 
>>> disturbing is the Voice From Above (Bezos? Trump?) exerting editorial 
>>> censorship.
>>>
>>>
>> As usual, you have a competely wrong-headed attitude here but if you 
>> didn't understand my first explanation, you won't understand my second 
>> either.
>
>Your "first explanation" is that she should be bipartisan, right?  Why?
>
Because "fair" journalists shouldn't have an agenda.