Matt Murray suppressed WaPo story on losing Matea Gold to NYT after passing her over for promotion. www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n... - ThreadSky

emptywheel.bsky.social • 74 days ago

Matt Murray suppressed WaPo story on losing Matea Gold to NYT after passing her over for promotion.

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5222807/washington-post-editor-kills-article-times-bezos

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patrickford.bsky.social•74 days ago

This is basically the same thing as Assad leaving Syria for Russia.

wendyatlanticcan.bsky.social•74 days ago

Isn’t misogyny in the patriarchy grand? 😡

johnrage.bsky.social•73 days ago

I would say it looks like some sexism/misogyny to me, but it's America so that goes without saying.

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

@washingtonpost.com - we see you!

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

"She is the latest in a series of significant departures from the paper, including former Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, whom Lewis sought to assign to a new role. She's now with Reuters. Reporters Shane Harris left for the Atlantic and Devlin Barrett for the Times."

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

"In recent years, the Post has endured a series of challenges and crises that have picked up pace under Lewis: deep financial losses, sharp job cuts, revelations that Lewis sought to pressure the Post not to cover questions of whether he was involved in covering up crimes more than a decade ago.."

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

"He had previously pressured NPR not to disclose fresh material supporting the allegations of a coverup in the Murdoch tabloid hacking scandal in London.

While the Post did not initially report the allegations raised by NPR, Gold oversaw the paper's later coverage of them,.."

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

"...as well as Lewis' controversial past in British newspapers. Several colleagues say he was visibly cold and short with her in meetings with top editors. Barr, the retired former senior managing editor, was subsequently brought in to edit those stories."

cdpositive.bsky.social•74 days ago

"Most recently, more than 250,000 digital subscribers formally canceled after owner Jeff Bezos killed a planned editorial endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris just days before Election Day. The figure represented more than a tenth of all digital subscribers."
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vickiecarey.bsky.social•73 days ago

Actions like this by WaPo is another example of why I canceled my subscription.

keepingtherepublic.bsky.social•74 days ago

One more piece of evidence that it’s time for the Post to get more credible leadership

melisa23.bsky.social•74 days ago

They're just pulling out their great big misogyny and slapping it right on the table in front of us

agamemnerd.bsky.social•72 days ago

Cancelled our WAPO subscription over Trump - this seems to reinforce the notion that the decision was justified...

nintyfan1991.bsky.social•74 days ago

Fuck Jeff Bezos! Please keep up the boycott, people!

woodenwood.bsky.social•73 days ago

There are no good editors left. Rock and roll is dead. Independent news is deader. RIP WAPO.

experimental22.bsky.social•73 days ago

WaPo is dead. It's a matter of weeks or months.

maryhruth.bsky.social•73 days ago

Astonishing failure by ... what ... *most* legacy media? Within the past decade, one could say?

If institutions come and institutions go, what can reliably keep us civilized?

citizenjenn.bsky.social•74 days ago

Why does @jenrubin.bsky.social not jump ship?

eugenebluegrass.bsky.social•74 days ago

Is hegemonic masculinity taking over WaPo?

wakullaprice.bsky.social•74 days ago

And everyone is still going to salivate for Pulitzers and careers even though American journalism is -30-. Vichy toads.

pushkin11.bsky.social•74 days ago

Because of course he did...
Glad I canceled my subscription after 15 years...

watchful26.bsky.social•74 days ago

You can take the Murdoch trained WaPo guys outta England but you can’t take the Murdoch outta the WaPo

bbix.bsky.social•74 days ago

So many dishonest people it’s quite remarkable

kentropic.bsky.social•74 days ago

“Democracy dies in darkness,” reads masthead of press institution dedicated to shrouding its new reactionary politics in darkness. Evidently, they mean their slogan to be a selling point, not a warning.

hoyabull.bsky.social•74 days ago

aaand both of these rags can blow themselves. Why cover this?

veronicafrancox.bsky.social•74 days ago

This is what happens when you let Murdoch’s disciples into positions of power. WaPo slowly descending into a trash paper with no integrity!

peterrb1961.bsky.social•73 days ago

Judging by how many people are writing about Matea Gold, Matt Murray is apparently as good at suppressing stories as he is at publishing them.

mrsnodes.bsky.social•73 days ago

* not the Wolves’ keeper

huckleberryfriend.bsky.social•73 days ago

I feel like taking them to court over their tagline, since, in fact,

Democracy Died in Daylight

johnpontoon.bsky.social•74 days ago

So shitty that she has to go from a paper with a new focus on journalistic compromise to a paper dedicated to some journalistic excellence but also utter dishonesty about trans rights and Israel.

anarchitek.bsky.social•72 days ago

Too embarrassingly on-point!

debwallace.bsky.social•73 days ago

Ahhh yet another verification that severing all financial ties with Oligarch Bezos was the correct moral & ethical decision

junebug082.bsky.social•74 days ago

From the frying pan into the fire.

eastslope.bsky.social•73 days ago

I don't know why integrity is so hard for some. I get the perversity of the easy money of the tech bros unmoors many, but most people still are oriented.

claudiecg.bsky.social•74 days ago

Is it creepy when an outlet reports on itself? A little, imo.

donhondo13.bsky.social•74 days ago

Are editors the new CEOs?

1stladydi.bsky.social•73 days ago

ya' don't suppose she was passed over for promotion because she was a chick, do ya'?

(mebbe it was because she couldn't stand being told what news is by Jeff Bezos)

nomorexx.bsky.social•74 days ago

Bezos worried about his billions. Needs more. Gross.

agora01619.bsky.social•74 days ago

Wow 😳

alphiesnowbear.bsky.social•74 days ago

Strike 2.

phyrricvictory.bsky.social•74 days ago

He's gearing up for when he sells America.

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•74 days ago

See this is where Patrick Soon-Shiong can innovate circles around Bezos: the LAT can use AI to spike a story *or* rewrite it to cast the apostate editor as an unethical hack!

sdrose.bsky.social•74 days ago

Here I thought Murray was one of the good guys, or at least not as bad as Lewis. Or Bezos.

jimrissmiller.bsky.social•74 days ago

Seems a bit like something an authoritarian dictator like Putin or Kim or Xi would do.

stillkhive.bsky.social•73 days ago

This line tells you everything you need to know about the Washington Post and our press overall, “Murray did not respond to NPR's request for comment and Gold declined comment.”

phil-b-reed.bsky.social•73 days ago

Assholes

illumnow.bsky.social•73 days ago

Good ole Jeff B who has become a complete Ass Hole oh well he's got his hot chick...wish Amazon would get rid of him.....

scooter1314.bsky.social•74 days ago

activistmode.bsky.social•74 days ago

Patriarchy’s gonna patri.

catmamma.bsky.social•74 days ago

Glad I canceled my subscription

texdog97.bsky.social•74 days ago

Washington Post is not the same!

kmin444.bsky.social•73 days ago

Glad I cancelled my my subscription.

kdkrochi.bsky.social•73 days ago

And so goes another great newspaper.

huckleberryfriend.bsky.social•73 days ago

quit it a while ago, though they were the only remaining paper with the cash to fund on the ground eye witness reporting

kdkrochi.bsky.social•73 days ago

I dropped their digital due to the non-endorsement. As a former journalist who covered the Pentagon, I am so saddened by what that staff must feel like.

huckleberryfriend.bsky.social•73 days ago

sorry for you- for the education, passion, commitment to honesty and clarity I'm sure you strove for as a serious journalist with principles

kdkrochi.bsky.social•73 days ago

Different world. Different time for media.

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