The Washington Post at 11:17 p.m. on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union: “A call for bipartisanship.”
Here's the front page of tomorrow's Washington Post: pic.twitter.com/5HQmDNoa4r
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018
And that didn’t go over so well:
Fake news. https://t.co/qRIRdW3ENG
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) January 31, 2018
Trash headline.
Alternative: White supremacist announces bigoted immigration plan that will tear families apart https://t.co/8IaMCkIinC
— Shaun King (@shaunking) January 31, 2018
https://twitter.com/Zac_Petkanas/status/958559631130972160
democracy dies when we don’t at least TRY to compromise with the nazis https://t.co/BRUsAAo1fH
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) January 31, 2018
What in the hell? https://t.co/6ZlpzYlHw4
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 31, 2018
Is this a joke? He basically called all immigrants murderous criminals. https://t.co/I0Li8CFZ6D
— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 31, 2018
Is this a joke https://t.co/aqBNEZhtbC
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) January 31, 2018
Love you @washingtonpost but I don't really buy this framing. The speech was fairly conventional stylistically, but the last 3/4 of the speech were quite partisan, substantively, especially by SOTU standards. https://t.co/6b1iuuOE0e
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 31, 2018
Weird. It’s totally OK to criticize the press as “fake news” when they do something you don’t like?
Anyway, the Post listened. Here’s the new version roughly an hour later:
This page was updated after the first edition. Here is the final front page. pic.twitter.com/nfR7p2wEPB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 31, 2018
Still funny, though:
lol they changed it: https://t.co/1Jtpmvppcx
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) January 31, 2018
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Editor’s note: The first sentence was corrected to read “bipartisanship,” not “partisanship.”
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