{"id":20321,"date":"2026-02-08T15:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T23:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20321"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:31:17","slug":"does-the-media-wapo-even-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/02\/08\/does-the-media-wapo-even-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the media, WaPo, even matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Washington Post recently laid off one third of their staff. Many of the staff went to social media to say that the loss of staff represented a critical loss of important reporting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem &#8211; as noted by many on social media &#8211; is that much WaPo&#8217;s reporting (like much of the media today) is rather unusual and not particularly important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is some of what WaPo thought was important:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAb9wSNWwAACuAZ.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAb9wSNWwAACuAZ.jpg 680w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAb9wSNWwAACuAZ-600x580.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAb9wSNWwAACuAZ-279x270.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAUh4HtXcAAFAQB.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAUh4HtXcAAFAQB.jpg 314w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAUh4HtXcAAFAQB-277x600.jpg 277w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAUh4HtXcAAFAQB-125x270.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"447\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAnhM65aEAANeZR.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAnhM65aEAANeZR.jpg 447w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAnhM65aEAANeZR-394x600.jpg 394w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAnhM65aEAANeZR-177x270.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAaaNOLa8AA3KoM.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAaaNOLa8AA3KoM.jpg 546w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAaaNOLa8AA3KoM-482x600.jpg 482w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAaaNOLa8AA3KoM-217x270.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have not been paying attention, as of February 2026 he has admitted to having a Y chromosome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"893\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C-1024x893.jpg?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C-1024x893.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C-600x523.jpg 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C-768x670.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C-310x270.jpg 310w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/HAgZFkKacAEMb0C.jpg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at some of things they thought were news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20332,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20321\/revisions\/20332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}