Via #RawStory - Dec 20, 2025
'This is strange': Trump fans baffled by puny turnout at #NorthCarolina rally
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Per interviews conducted by #WashingtonPost, the presidential visit was marked by..disappointment & disillusionment as #Trump touted #EconomicGrowth claims that contrasted sharply with the visible hardship surrounding the #RockyMountEventsCenter.
1 Trump merchandise vendor struggled to move inventory, marking #MAGA beanies down to $5 without success.
#Pentagonul lucrează la o reorganizare profundă a statului major.
planul va lansa unele dintre cele mai importante transformări la vârful armatei din ultimele decenii (📰#WashingtonPost).
Is he TRYING to make himself even less likable?
‘I had to take 60 meetings’: Jeff Bezos says ‘the hardest thing I’ve ever done’ was raising the first million dollars of seed capital for Amazon
https://fortune.com/2025/12/15/jeff-bezos-hardest-thing-ive-ever-done-60-meetings-amazon-seed-capital-funding-round/
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Not Whiskey Or Beer, This Classic Drink Was Ronald Reagan’s Go-To
It’s not uncommon for presidents to enjoy a drink during state dinners or unwind with one after a hard day’s work. Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, was no exception to this practi…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #CalifornianWine #MichaelK.Deaver #ronaldreagan #WashingtonPost #winecellar #winecellars
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2427053/not-whiskey-or-beer-this-classic-drink-was-ronald-reagans-go-to/
Not Whiskey Or Beer, This Classic Drink Was Ronald Reagan’s Go-To
It’s not uncommon for presidents to enjoy a drink during state dinners or unwind with one after a hard day’s work. Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, was no exception to this practice. He loved the occasi…
#wine #Wine #CalifornianWine #MichaelK.Deaver #ronaldreagan #WashingtonPost #winecellar #winecellars
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2427053/not-whiskey-or-beer-this-classic-drink-was-ronald-reagans-go-to/
« The Washington Post’s top standards editor Thursday decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts […] The errors have ranged from relatively minor pronunciation gaffes to significant changes to story content, like misattributing or inventing quotes […] “It is truly astonishing that this was allowed to go forward at all,” one Post editor wrote on Slack. “Never would I have imagined that the Washington Post would deliberately warp its own journalism and then push these errors out to our audience at scale.” […] “If we were serious we would pull this tool immediately.” […] The Washington Post is hardly alone in experimenting with AI news products. » https://www.semafor.com/article/12/11/2025/washington-posts-ai-generated-podcasts-rife-with-errors-fictional-quotes
"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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https://criticalread.substack.com/p/washington-post-readers-revolt-against
"The Washington Post’s top standards editor Thursday decried “frustrating” errors in its new AI-generated personalized podcasts, whose launch has been met with distress by its journalists.
Earlier this week, the Post announced that it was rolling out personalized AI-generated podcasts for users of the paper’s mobile app. In a release, the paper said users will be able to choose preferred topics and AI hosts, and could “shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology.”
But less than 48 hours since the product was released, people within the Post have flagged what four sources described as multiple mistakes in personalized podcasts. The errors have ranged from relatively minor pronunciation gaffes to significant changes to story content, like misattributing or inventing quotes and inserting commentary, such as interpreting a source’s quotes as the paper’s position on an issue.
According to four people familiar with the situation, the errors have alarmed senior newsroom leaders who have acknowledged in an internal Slack channel that the product’s output is not living up to the paper’s standards. In a message to other WaPo staff shared with Semafor, head of standards Karen Pensiero wrote that the errors have been “frustrating for all of us.”
Another newsroom editor invoked recent criticism from the White House, underscoring how the paper has had to be cautious about errors and corrections."
#AI #GenerativeAI #Podcasts #Media #News #Journalism #WashingtonPost #Hallucinations
🚀 Big News for Podcast & AI Fans!
🎧 The Washington Post just launched Your Personal Podcast — a fully AI-powered, customizable daily news podcast you tailor by topic, host & length! 📲
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In the most recent email to me from The Washington Post, the first and topmost news article headline is "Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend has had a weird month" (approx)
WaPo: you are not a serious news org anymore. shame on you folks. shame for wasting my time and demonstrating poor priorities in an era of accelerating noise, propaganda, hype, lies and hallucinations
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Lower #Prices are BAD for You? #Economist Richard Wolff Rips WaPo Propaganda
#economy #trump #capitalism #RichardWolff #WashingtonPost #Bezos
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/3Kv9AMj8TUE
📰#WashingtonPost: Ipocriziile 🇪🇺#UE privind 🇺🇦#Ucraina.
🇫🇷#Franța, 🇩🇪#Germania și 🇧🇪#Belgia văd paiul din ochiul lui #Trump, dar nu observă bârna din propriul lor ochi.
Anfang des Jahres sorgte sie international für Aufmerksamkeit, als sie ihre Zusammenarbeit mit der Washington Post beendete – aus Protest dagegen, dass die Zeitung eine Karikatur von ihr nicht veröffentlichen wollte, in der die Beziehung zwischen Washington Post-Eigner Jeff Bezos und Donald Trump thematisiert wurde.
