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sifill.bsky.social • 2 days ago

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https://open.substack.com/pub/bbromba/p/fired-from-the-post?r=1sqa3e

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telesonixseeker.bsky.social•2 days ago

Subscribed! So nice to read good writing, another voice we need.

kendracula.bsky.social•2 days ago

My finger has been hovering over unsubscribe button to WaPo for awhile. Reading this makes me smash that button.

hildegardvsalinas.bsky.social•1 day ago

Likewise. Time to download the vegan and Instant Pot recipes, then cancel my monthly subscription.

sadieheartsclyde.bsky.social•2 days ago

They’re not like us

pennyflynn.bsky.social•2 days ago

Excellent.

blue-n-al.bsky.social•2 days ago

Please continue to share the truth. The ones that remained stayed when he would not endorse. Now they are still there when he turns money away. They say that they need to stay to tell words of truth. Now mo truth just the silence of the timid.

aliceb2.bsky.social•2 days ago

Dang you probably are too good for the trump bunch.. you probably told the truth snd cslled it the Gulf of Mexico

onesassyliberal.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for sharing this @sifill.bsky.social

I read it and subscribed.

dbeberman.bsky.social•2 days ago

authentic look behind the scenes

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•2 days ago

“I have many other pieces that I sent to the Post that were summarily rejected. Pieces that I’d researched. Pieces that called out income inequality and the fact that the only “minority” that was ruining America were the filthy rich.
“We just don’t think this works.” is what they would say.”

shinethelight6.bsky.social•2 days ago

This rings so true. Thank you!

susankelly18.bsky.social•2 days ago

Loved it.

nuttyhutter.bsky.social•2 days ago

You surely don’t want to make rich folks upset….ugggggh

mccainsuzanne.bsky.social•2 days ago

Excellent piece. Very enlightening.

anmensah.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thanks for introducing me to Brian. I subscribed.

sheenamedina.com•2 days ago

So long as we have a monetization model of information that prioritizes the wrong stakeholders — advertisers over readers — we will always cater to the business interests of the former, not the intellectual interests of the latter.

sheenamedina.com•2 days ago

we have a value system based on advertising metrics, and the reason for this can be traced to our chronic tendency to fit old forms to new media — the funding model for media and journalism today is a near-exact replica of the funding model of early newspapers.

sheenamedina.com•2 days ago

Money still dictates the editorial direction and vision for most of the information we consume. Until we figure out a way to reinstate the reader as the key stakeholder, the Internet will remain a dismal landscape for intelligent, compelling media.

always4bangtan.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

peltast1.bsky.social•2 days ago

The owners of the Post want you upset about race, and sexuality, and every other social issue, so that you won't see the single largest societal problem: that a few people control most of the world's wealth.

kimadilla.bsky.social•2 days ago

And the same own and control media

ongoingslaughter.bsky.social•2 days ago

You will always be Chief Justice Sherrilyn Ifill to me.
Drifts off to sleep. 🌌

treading11.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you

bjw7.bsky.social•1 day ago

Congratulations on being fired from the Washington post, you must’ve done something right 💯👏

azulagua.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for sharing.

jennerzi.bsky.social•2 days ago

Me too. We need to divest our news from our billionaires.

ctobserve.bsky.social•2 days ago

vincedaily.bsky.social•2 days ago

"But I have many other pieces that I sent to the Post that were summarily rejected. Pieces that I’d researched and put time into. Pieces that called out income inequality and the fact that the only “minority” that was ruining America were the filthy rich."

tam438.bsky.social•2 days ago

So good! Also subscribed.
Bonus: confirmed that I did the right thing when I cancelled my WaPo subscription.

pinkmingo.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you for sharing . This was a good read .

kellynorrissarno.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Thank you for sharing

trishus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Eye opening. Don't like seeing myself in this. Good piece. I wish him the best.

pml1025.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wonderful piece. The computer age has done an excellent job of isolating and addicting us while diminishing critical thinking.

smeent.bsky.social•2 days ago

The computer age? You misspelled the plutocracy

swingbluealliance.org•2 days ago

"I could write about divisive issues, but never write about things [like income inequality] that might, in fact, bring the rest of us together.

iamhazelcompton.bsky.social•2 days ago

Great piece! As Dr. King often quoted, “Truth crushed to earth will rise again". Keep writing!

cpbloom.bsky.social•2 days ago

"It got the greenlight because it would bring all the racists to their keyboards clicking and commenting away. It would bring all the anti-racists out, too. These opinions of mine on race make people angry. So I learned that, if I wanted to get paid, to write about race."

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