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Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com |
The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.
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WhatAimeeWrites
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Whoa. That's bad
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Seth
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I don't understand the story personally. I thought flying the flag upside down was a well known symbol of distress. I marched to protest Trump in 2019 and someone was flying the American flag upside down on the march.
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Butch Rosser
@colonizedeez.bsky.social
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Waiting until Saturday on a long holiday weekend like it's still 1962 or something
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Nigel Tufnel
@misterrora.bsky.social
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Must maintain that access, no matter the cost!
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HBSteveB
@hbsteveb.bsky.social
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The Roberts court has been rotten since the Citizen United ruling! Roberts, Thomas & Alito were all part of that horrendous decision.
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Ralf W
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But WaPo managers are also still mystified about the plunge in reader engagement...
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Hannah Walser
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Incredible that she freaked out and threw a tantrum when asked about the flag and the Post's reaction was apparently "nothing to see here"
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Zz🪐
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I’m guessing there was just too much dirty politics going on pushing it to the bottom of the GOP heap, possibly by Ginni the insurrectionist and the orange baboon tweeting.
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Moderately Grouchy
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God almighty I cut WP, NYP, et al. a shit ton of slack but this is monumentally embarrassing.
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Mithos
@mithos343.bsky.social
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Turns out making journalism accessible only to people from "upper middle class" backgrounds might have been a mistake
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Kevin Delgado
@kdelgado.bsky.social
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Rotten
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MAJeff, God of Cookies
@majeff.bsky.social
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The Courtier Class.
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HadEnoughRight-WingBS
@purpleprose.bsky.social
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Newspapers couldn’t spare the space because they so badly needed to report that Taylor Swift was encouraging people to vote. /s
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ₚᴀɴᴺᴼᴺɪᴄₐ
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Handmaidens
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Adam Trotter
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Turns out "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was their business model
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David F. Soros
@wiselineprt.bsky.social
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Why. Do the Alitos live in a besieged fort in deepest Fairfax?
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Chris Parker
@crs1.bsky.social
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I can’t imagine why their readership is down 50% Do they not own a mirror?
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Paula
@dentonitis.bsky.social
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Three-day weekend, perfect timing
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The Design Guy
@jimmy2fonts.bsky.social
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The Washington Post likes to say that democracy dies in darkness. I just never thought it would die in their hands.
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Tonnielle
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This may shock you, but sometimes newspapers opt to pass on breaking news, which everyone else is running anyway, for more in-depth, better researched reporting and thorough coverage.
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Tonnielle
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Looks like they thought it was a story to me. If not, why run it at all?
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Gerry
@failedtheologian.bsky.social
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Imagine Trump had won and Hunter Biden did anything more than literally leave the house on inauguration day.
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Jim Myers(he/him)
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Why would the owner of the WaPo, Jeff Bezos want to keep Alito on the bench for as long as possible. Almost like he has pending cases before the court he knows Alito will rule favorably for him 🤔
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Jeff Liszt
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The solution is clearly a pivot to AI
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Tom Lafferty
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Why do real reporting in your own city? It doesn’t get them access. That’s the whole point.
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boxelder
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how do we get liberals to stop taking these rags as gospel
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Joseph Kohlmann
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Welp
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Mark Nance
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Reminds me of the Nina Totenberg revelations that she was mostly giddy to be friends with the justices. The justices ought to have a reporter hounding them everywhere they go and reporting on every group they talk to and what they say.
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the murderHobos! (the band)
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He said it was in retaliation to lawn signs with objectionable language--which is it?
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Darrel Plant
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A story so bad the Post can’t even bring themselves to name the spokeswoman…for the Post!
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Thee AV🕯️FuQ Alito
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JC Sounds like today's WaPo would've sat on the Watergate break-in. 🤦🏽♀️
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Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown
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I guess the National Enquirer isn’t the only organisation to indulge in ‘Catch & Kill’ shenanigans… makes you wonder what other stories they are sitting on!
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Sgt. Pigeon
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Corporate class 1 : Democracy 0
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Not kidding; wish I was
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the NYT article timeline makes it clear that the NYT knew about it at least as far back as December too.
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Doug Moffett
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When you give a Fascist Junta powered to determine the law, they will certainly do it... especially when aided by a corrupt and unchallenged media.. (mostly owned by Fascist supporting Oligarchs and Sycophants). America is in DEEP, DEEP peril of losing it's freedom. CURB THE COURT!
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Mark Hennessy-Barrett
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Journalism won't get the billionaires who own our news companies another multi-trillion dollar tax break.
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John Hoskinson
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“something…. something…dies in the darkness “
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Allison MacDuffee
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Maybe s.o. else has already remarked this: the judge and his spouse prob'ly live on huge, landsc'd property, befitting 💰💰. So 🆘️ flag wd be seen only by the maid, cook, letter carrier, repair person.... A lame, lying explanation 😡 from these "public servants."
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Tentacle Macrame
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They have to resign. Recusal is inadequate
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Peter Aidan Byrne
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Legacy media: "See, we're NOT just stenographers to the powerful! Sometimes we DON'T tell you what the powerful said."
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Eileen Clancy
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Incredibly poor decision by editors/whoever made the call in 2021. Sitting on it until 25 May after NYT ran a story on 16 May? Unforgivable. WaPo is the local paper for the Capitol. That's why they got the initial tip. 90% of the time NYT isn't going to get that NoVa tip. WaPo needs to be on it!
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Eric de Roulet, load-bearing grad student
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"Democracy dies in darkness." - The Washington Post, stating a fact but neglecting to mention whether they think this is a bad thing.
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