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The Washington Post

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The Resume

    (December 6, 1877- )
    Owned by Nash Holdings
    Founded by Stilson Hutchins
    Headquartered in Washington, D.C.
    Known informally as WaPo
    Known for its political reporting
    Motto is 'Democracy Dies in Darkness'

Why The Washington Post might be annoying:

    It overwhelmingly endorses Democrat candidates for President and other offices.
    Phil Graham specifically used the paper to push personal friend John F. Kennedy's campaign.
    They won a Pulitzer Prize for 'Jimmy's World' - an article written by Janet Cooke about an eight-year-old heroin addict.
    The story was later discovered to have been fabricated and the Pulitzer was returned (1981).
    George Will and Jennifer Rubin are opinion writers.
    It ran more than 140 stories on its front page promoting the Invasion of Iraq.
    Jeff Bezos purchased it through his holding company for $250 million (2013).
    Donald Trump dubbed it the 'Amazon Washington Post' ('a propaganda machine' for the site).
    Its slogan was widely mocked and derided when it was unveiled in 2017 (a New York Times editor likened it to a tagline for 'the next Batman movie').
    It settled a $250 million defamation lawsuit from Covington Catholic High School student Nick Sandmann, who claimed to have been libeled in seven articles, for an undisclosed amount (July 2020)

Why The Washington Post might not be annoying:

    It is one of the few remaining American newspapers to operate foreign bureaus.
    Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation.
    William Randolph Hearst hoped to buy it to shut down it down and eliminate it as competition but was outbid by Meyer (ironically, his own newspapers would be merged and bought by the Post in 1954).
    Katharine Graham salvaged it after Philip's suicide (1963) and turned it into one of the nation's most respected newspapers.
    Its printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War.
    It broke the Watergate story, leading to President Nixon's resignation.
    WaPo's Woodward and Bernstein proved tenacious in uncovering the facts behind the Watergate break-in.
    As of 2022, it has the second most Pulitzer Prizes after the New York Times.
    It successfully expanded into the internet and social media, and won the 2020 Webby Award for News & Politics.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 75 Votes: 62.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 129 Votes: 52.71% Annoying