Anne ApplebaumI grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just an year and a half is devastating.
Oregon Slim@anneapplebaum I feel for you, and wish you good fortune after this devastation. For many years I had two good friends (a married couple) who were attached to the the newspaper business lifelong, one as a writer, the other as an editor. I vicariously shared their thrills when they were working on good stories and their disappointments as the stinking tides of change washed away their opportunities to flourish. Just thinking of them and back beyond to 1962 when I was 12 years old and enthralled by reading the NY Times, which was delivered to me, an 8th grader in elementary school, 5 days each week for a dime-a-week subscription, makes me mournful for the valuable institutions lost, fearful of a future that we deserve because we did not prevent it, and desperate for a last chance to redeem myself.
May you find a new path and flourish along it,
Al