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The Washington Post had been hit far worse. Its advertising base in D.C. had been decimated, as was the case with many local newspapers,
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It's easy to forget how desperately afraid of centralized power the Founders of America were. The First Amendment protecting freedom of the press was first for a reason.
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Each journalist cost nearly half a million dollars when you added in healthcare costs and other coverage fees. The old-timers cost even more. Thinning the herd was the only way to achieve significant savings.
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Needless to say, none of this was journalism. They were producing an entertaining, purposely offensive lad mag at a time when Maxim and others were in vogue.
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Woodward went on CNN's Larry King Live, where a viewer called in with a question for him: What happens if we go to war against Iraq, knock them out, and then find they had no weapons of mass destruction in the first place? Woodward's response would haunt him for years: "I think the chance of that happening is about zero."
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Woodward had learned her identity from Powell's deputy during an interview for his book, but he hadn't published the information or shared it with Downie.
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Only a year after the seismic election, Politico had 6.7 million unique visitors a month. That same year, the Post lost $165 million.
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In late 2007 the august New York Times
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Other publishers treated the beat as a niche, whereas BuzzFeed knew that LGBT rights, and marriage equality in particular, was "something that our core 18-35 audience cares a lot about." "We see it as an absolute front-burner area to go after with the same kind of intensity as politics," Smith told the Poynter Institute. "Maybe animals, even."
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Every so often one group or another would feel their wrists vibrate and in unison they would lift their arms and inspect the latest update from their company-issued Apple Watches.
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