In Reply to: I'm assuming they still have the staff who know how to put posted by blindness on August 13, 2025 at 22:43:49
Apparently they still have someone who can write left on staff:
This paragraph from WaPo is still understated, but not at all bad by MSM standards.
— Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social) August 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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But it marks the fact that Trump is systematically injecting falsehood into the key metrics that have been used to make sound decisions. Crime is down in DC, but Trump wants to throw the goon squad in so he lies about crime and reassigns FBI agents from counterterrorism to cracking down on homeless people. False and corrupted data leads to inefficiencies and poor decisions.