"in what strikes me as an unintentional acknowledgment of weakness, the full membership of the editorial board --which the Post used to proudly list under every unsigned editorial -- is now a closely guarded secret. Either [opinion editor Adam] O’Neal is too embarrassed to list them, or they’re too embarrassed to be associated with the garbage they are forced to produce."

#WashingtonPost #Trump #JeffBezos #AdamOneal #media #ParodyofSelf #AbdicationofMission #ethics #failure
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In a posting entitled "Washington Post readers revolt against Bezos’s editorial board," Dan Froomkin says,

"The AI summaries of reader comments have become a must read. ...

The reader-comment summaries are also wonderfully brutal for the Post’s many MAGA opinion columnists."

#WashingtonPost #Trump #JeffBezos #AdamOneal #media #ParodyofSelf #AbdicationofMission #ethics #failure
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criticalread.substack.com/p/wa…

Washington Post readers revolt against Bezos’s editorial board

^{Dan Froomkin (Press Watch)}

"...if it’s OK to comply with a directive to remove information about gender, what if the next demand is that we don’t report about people who emigrated from other countries, or on people who are experiencing homelessness? What if there’s a directive to suppress data about a particular racial or ethnic group that’s unpopular? How far would we go?"

kffhealthnews.org/news/article…

#PublicHealth #HIV #lgbtq #transgender #immigrants #CDC #USpol #autocracy #ethics

This HIV Expert Refused To Censor Data, Then Quit the CDC - KFF Health News

HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.

^{KFF Health News}