WaPo in-depth story on Metro's flaws

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/tr ... story.html. An interesting piece because it goes back to reports from 80s and even 70s that document the inherent flaws in Metro and the failure to heed them.

Hmm. Did WMATA stop paying off WaPo to be their fanboy and mouthpiece? Until now, Washington Post pretty much refused to print anything that reflected poorly on WMATA. They did no investigative journalism. They simply regurgitated what Minister of Information Stessel and the PR department spoon fed them. I hold WaPo complicit in the mismanagement of WMATA. They basically helped mislead the general public and governments about the status of the system. Maybe WaPo is finally being seen as the embarassment that it is. Every other news media outlet figured out and reported on the true mess that WMATA turned itself into, some for years, while WaPo was still busy spraying Fabreeze on a turd.

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Hmm. Did WMATA stop paying off WaPo to be their fanboy and mouthpiece? Until now, Washington Post pretty much refused to print anything that reflected poorly on WMATA. They did no investigative journalism. They simply regurgitated what Minister of Information Stessel and the PR department spoon fed them. I hold WaPo complicit in the mismanagement of WMATA. They basically helped mislead the general public and governments about the status of the system. Maybe WaPo is finally being seen as the embarassment that it is. Every other news media outlet figured out and reported on the true mess that WMATA turned itself into, some for years, while WaPo was still busy spraying Fabreeze on a turd.

The present day reporters working for the Post have little of no knowledge on how all the pieces and part work to make the railroad run. They also are to young to have followed the progress of the build out of the system. They also do not spend anytime doing research to increase the knowledge of the past. I would hazard a guess that none of them even knew that WMATA even existed before they were hired by the Post.

You're probably right about most of their reporters. Frankly, that describes most reporters anywhere. Their job is not longer to investigate and report news. It's to create headlines people want to click on.

However, if you are going to have a entire section of your paper (Dr Gridlock) dedicated to being the expert authority on transit and commuter news in the DC area, those reporters working that desk should be held to a higher standard. Copying and pasting a WMATA press release, adding two sentences, and creating a flashy headline, is not journalism.