How does one newspaper tell a story about the power of money, media, and our future in a single day?
In this issue, we analyze the December 6, 2025, issue of The Washington Post as a map of hidden currents:
The $83 billion Netflix-Warner Bros. Discovery deal as a battle for control of stories and streaming wars;
The EU's fine for Elon Musk's X platform for disinformation and how it's being framed as a geopolitical conflict between the US and Europe;
Records for the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Nasdaq amid the very mundane problems of ordinary people;
The first snow in Washington, a LeafGuard ad, and the perfect combination of "created anxiety and immediately sold the solution";
The Style section: voice messages, dating for 50+, and a horoscope as a painkiller for a reader tired of major worries;
The main omission: abnormal snow without a single mention of climate change. This isn't just a news review, but media criticism and forensics of the newspaper page: how the focus is placed, what fears are being presented, what solutions are being sold—and which stories don't make it onto the page at all.
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media analysis, economics, geopolitics, wars, technology, and what newspapers prefer to keep quiet about.
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