“Story telling”? What happened to journalism?

We’re already being forced into living the dumbest reality show ever created & the corporate, greedy media is no better than tabloid trash any more.

Story telling is perfect - it clarifies that they have nothing to do with TRUTH!

Americans are f’ed

"Storytelling" has always evoked fiction to me. That's what we're getting from WaPo now. Truth is dead.

America: Show's it's capacious bunghole.

Will these be stories about riveters?

Garbage. Pure trash.

Tragedy. Really.

Anybody reads this shit .. play girl has more honest content. just ask Johnson who licks it

Remember Stephen Colbert's observation that reality has a liberal bias. "Riveting storytelling" (and WaPo's other new buzz phrase "Insights for all Americans") really means "stop pissing off conservatives with the truth".

TRUTH died in darkness with journalism & Democracy.

Hello

JV Vance is happy that he won’t be called a liar when he tells stories about Springfield and pets. He is just creating “riveting storytelling”

We have become “the free press” as the constitution protects in the first amendment. Bluesky gazette.

Main steam journalism isn't reporting these days. It's story telling like they say, so it's appropriate. There is very little truth and lot of fables and stories told from the perspective of whatever politicians or businessesman's agenda they are peddling

Riveting storytelling indeed - I had NO idea I was going to be living in a dystopian novel

Looks like Bezos is trying to compete with Musk about how fast you can purchase a company and run it into the ground.

To be fair, the word "journalism" was purchased and destroyed; so, where could democracy go?

When I covered the John Philip Sousa march titled "The Washington Post", I renamed it "The Washington Post is a shitty newspaper": ironcurtain.bandcamp.com/track/the-wa...

Fox "Entertainment News"

In the case of WAPO, democracy died at the bank

Telling stories doesn’t necessarily imply it’s a “true” story 🤷‍♂️

Sadly, a riveting story isn't necessarily true.

Nope, it was murdered in broad daylight.

"storytelling", not news

National Enquirer now has competition at the grocery store checkout stand.

Riveting. Storytelling. Just WOW.

Riveting storytelling? So, nothing about evidence, truth, reporting or anything you'd actually expect from a newspaper. They are systematically trying to get rid of all legitimate news agencies. The best unbiased reporting in America is done by PBS Newshour, in Canada the CBC. Both are under attack

Not reaching me.

“Democracy died in the darkness of Jeff Bezos’s pocket.”

Why are so many media providers turning into poossies? 🙄

Storytelling is for books, movies and television. News is supposed to be news and factual. Pretty bad the once “govt controlled media is bad” in other countries is more honest than USA news now

Their new mission is to reach all of America. In other words, to attract people that don’t believe in democracy.

Riveting storytelling=lying as much as needed to suck up to the orange menace. I will not trust any info coming from WAPO journalists. They all have lost their credibility and integrity by remaining there. Glad I cancelled my subscription.

I regret that I have but one cancellation to make of my subscription to The Washington Post.

It's Bezos' journalistic equivalent of Trump's "total immunity." And, as we know...unfortunately...there's a BIG audience out there for people who are "riveted by" a 78 year old adjudicated rapist & convicted felon. Democracy didn't stand a chance with Bezos at the helm.

All my East Texas relatives would say that "telling stories" = "making shit up." I need a rewatch of All the President's Men to purge this atrocity.

Welcome to the oligarchy formerly known as....

America has been an oligarchy for more than 40 years already, and nobody saw fit to do something about it, particularly not the Dems. Citizens United settled that, once and for all.

Anmd here is Mister Helper!

All the other issues with it aside, this new "mission statement" isn't ... a mission statement. It's a product, as if Pepsi's mission statement was "Fizzy Sugar Water." A mission is action with a purpose. It needs a verb and goal. Kirk's five-year mission statement had a similar issue: to what end?

I cancelled my subscription a while back and am extra glad that I will not be paying for the privilege of watching Bezos sink a great newspaper in the name of boosting his other businesses.

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"Storytelling" speaks volumes to the quality of news coverage we'll be seeing. I don't want to be told a story. I want pertinent facts from trusted and verified sources about the relevant topics of the time, without bias or agenda. Their new mission statement shows their journalistic integrity died.

yeah “riveting storytelling” is written on the inside sleeve of a fiction novel

I want riveting "storytelling" from my novelists and screenwriters. I don't want it from journalists. Just the facts, please - the well-researched facts.

Riveting story telling is the province of The National Enquirer and Weekly World News. This BS was the last straw for me. I cancelled my sub.

Actually, most readers DO want great story-telling from journalists - and always have. From Ida Tarbell to Robert Caro, from Red Smith to Johnny Reston - to convey "just the facts" you've got to capture a reader's attention and hold onto it until the full story is told, with each wrinkle and nuance.

Well you won’t get that with AI. It’ll be regurgitated slop, riddled with factual error. That’s where Bezos is going.

"Story telling" implies TO ME that grabbing the audience is more important than accuracy and focus on important events and actions. It also implies they think readers are there to be riveted rather than informed. YMMV.

What an odd definition of "story-telling"! Great stories can be factual, informative, and salient. Dull colorless stories can be inaccurate, uninformative and irrelevant. Readers can be both riveted AND informed. This seems like a weird hill to plant your flag on, but suit yourself.

You're funny.

And quite passive aggressive.

I am speaking of a mission statement for a newspaper. Thanks for allowing me to suit myself!

Wow. I, too, was speaking of a media mission statement. And I didn't "allow" you to suit yourself, so you needn't "thank" me for doing so - as you surely know. I hope that chip on your shoulder doesn't fall and hit your foot when you turn and stalk away...

"Riveting Storytelling for All of America." I think it should be "Ripping American Tales." I guess the "all of America" means even the... fact challenged. It probably doesn't mean the other countries in America.

I agree and I would add that NPR has infused an aggravating surplus of emotion into most every story they run on ATC and ME nowadays.

Woodward needs to bail.

I’m not interested in any news source that puts rivets in their stories.

Cripes. "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was supposed to be a warning - not self-fulfilling.

What else do you expect from people who consider "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "The Handmaid's Tale" to be instruction manuals?

Storytelling includes fiction.

They literally had this happen

And to think, I once considered subscribing to the WaPo. Khashoggi would be aghast🤦‍♂️

Stick it in the grocery store rack next to Weekly World News, it’s done.

Lots of euphemisms around that, “compelling fiction…”, “lively prose…”, etc. Post is telling you it isn’t a serious player in communication.

Infotainment like FoxNews it seems.

The "news" channels already have "unriveting storytelling" that is combined or "weaved", as the current president calls it, with oodles of speculation as to what within the next few days, or weeks, or whatever time frame is chosen, will happen to US. Truth is difficult to find. MBM

It didn't die in darkness. It died at the hands of a billionaire and capitalism way out in the daylight while we all watched.

Ran "riveting storytelling” through the decrapifier an the output was "spewing bullshit". I'd say that accurate, but I think the machine sustained some damage on this run.

It doesn't really make it any better, but I do see some sources clarifying that WaPo is keeping "Democracy dies in darkness", but adding this "Riveting storytelling" as their _mission statement_.

Just what we need: Story telling like Grimm’s fairy tales.

Story telling is what Fox News does; create stories out of whole cloth to support their horrible vision. WaPo is dead.

I suppose it had to change, with democracy officially dying Monday 😩

And not even clever or well told narrative. Their fiction is badly written and to those not enthralled with their lies, unbelievable, irrational. Their imagination is that of a naughty child trying to shift blame, gloat, get out of trouble, etc., but with less finesse. How do so many BELIEVE this?

There’s money in them thar hills.

Why didn’t they just change it to Democracy DIED in Darkness …?

I've rethought it as: Democracy dies in Dumbass.

Welcome to neofeudalism, dictators and Zuckerberg Musk Bezos Influence on all areas #technofeudalism

Democracy died in broad daylight.

Oh FFS!!! 🤦‍♀️ What we need are FACTS and truthful news, not “storytelling.” If I wanted stories, I’d read a good book.

Sadly, it died in the full light of day.

“Democracy dies in darkness” always sounded more like a threat or a promise to me than anything else.