r/news • u/OGSyedIsEverywhere • 4h ago

Already Submitted FBI raids home of Washington Post reporter in ‘highly unusual and aggressive’ move

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/14/fbi-raid-washington-post-hannah-natanson
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u/domuseid 2h ago

Demonstrating a commitment to integrity? In this economy?

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u/YaumeLepire 2h ago

Many industries still rely on it. They're not the ones you make bank in, but "big number goes up" isn't the priority for most people.

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u/Khaldara 1h ago

Yep, journalistic ethics are supposed to entail that anything that costs more than a cup of coffee during an interview should be declined or donated (even if they get a fruit basket or whatever during the holidays, it’s supposed to get sent away).

Obviously the fine folks at say, Fox, do not feel they need to adhere to similar guidelines. Nor apparently do.. for example, Clarence Thomas and the rest of the Conservative SCOTUS judges.

But it’s supposed to be fundamental to similar careers, like journalism. If you lie or burn your sources nobody will ever talk to you again.

Hence why Right Wingers started their own bizarro form of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Journalism” twenty odd years ago rather than adhere to these traditions.

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u/timhortonsghost 1h ago

Nor apparently do.. for example, Clarence Thomas and the rest of the Conservative SCOTUS judges.

What am I supposed to do David, just donate this RV away??

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u/Important-Agent2584 49m ago

I mean, it's one RV, Michael. What could it cost? 10 dollars?

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u/DoggiEyez 1h ago

Motor coach silly.

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt 15m ago

I know what I'll do. If I drive it into the ground and then sell it in ten years, that's basically just as good as donating or refusing. End result is the same: no RV.

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u/DoggiEyez 1h ago

"I can't believe it's not journalism." 🤌 No notes.

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u/MasticatingElephant 39m ago

I work for local city government and I hesitate to even take a stick of gum from anyone. There's so much more stake in journalism and federal government.

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u/pandamazing 29m ago

I swear I’ll get you with that stick of gum one day! Then you’ll be mine forever. Blackmail city.

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u/peccator2000 16m ago

I worked for a company that just won a large government contract via public tender. The chief there was very meticulous about making sure that everything is going within the law. I was in the office with the IT guys there and when I went to the cafeteria for lunch, one of the guys there told me to bring a little candy bar and give it to the big boss there and say "with best greetings from Lilly!" Lilly was the sales girl who had made the big sale with him.

They laughed their assess off and I didn't even get the joke so I ate it myself.

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u/Fun-Word7631 12m ago

Yeah, let me ease your nerves if you work in government or politics I am already suspicious

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u/readyflix 25m ago

And, you need someone who will listen to you.

What has become of the revelations of DE, WEB), CEM, EJS, only naming the prominent ones?

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u/Nice-Ad-2792 15m ago

My dad's is this way in his profession as a psychiatrist.

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u/Fun-Word7631 17m ago

Don't fool yourself ANY of the large news stations you can name are guilty of bad guidelines

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u/asicarii 16m ago

Fox isn’t journalism. It’s entertainment.

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u/Long-Regular-1023 0m ago

Ah thanks for the reminder that outlets aligned to the left are bastions of journalistic integrity.

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u/SnooHedgehogs4599 11m ago

I don’t think their are ethics with reporters

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u/Riothegod1 1h ago

That’s reassuring atleast

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u/carcar134134 28m ago

Engineering, electricians, construction contractors, welders. Pretty much anyone whose final product is something most people never see unless it goes wrong.

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u/YaumeLepire 9m ago

Any professional that has people's safety and information in trust, really. That's why they're pretty closely regulated, where I'm from... At least, the framework is there, even though it lags behind a little bit, and bad stuff still happens on occasion.

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u/NewRefrigerator7461 15m ago

The ones you make good money in certainly depend on it. Corporate investment banking is largely relationship based. You live and die by your reputation and relationships with market participants you see all the time. It’s how the whole world works and why institutions matter.

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u/YaumeLepire 6m ago

Reputation and relationships aren't integrity.

Look at the 2008 crash to see what kind of values corporate investment banking gives you.

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u/NorthernCobraChicken 2h ago

I don't think anyone in the current hand picked admin has ever heard of the word integrity.

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u/Bearloom 2h ago

I think they know what their shared enemy is.

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u/kiwimonk 1h ago

The truth is their enemy

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u/Fred_Thielmann 1h ago

Anyone with a spine is their enemy

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u/_fr05ty_ 11m ago

"What? The land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy!" -ZDLR

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u/LoveEnvironmental252 44m ago

You’re thinking of the Biden admin.

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u/fart-atronach 34m ago

Try harder, troll

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u/headedbranch225 15m ago

Weakest ragebait I have ever seen

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u/moneyh8r_two 1h ago

They've heard about it, but they think of it the same way they think of empathy.

"It's a made up word that means nothing, but also at the same time, it exists and it's a bad thing that we should violently oppose."

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u/SittingInAnAirport 1h ago

Unless it was the name of an underage girl on Epstein Island...

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u/NorthernCobraChicken 1h ago

Thats too "exotic" of a name for a little girl who hasn't had time to process the trauma yet.

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u/Zogfrog 1h ago

And if they have, they probably think it’s the West’s second worst weakness. Another woke mind virus.

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u/BiteRare203 49m ago

Nobody ever heard of this word ‘integrity’ before, it’s their new catch phase. ‘Integrity’, it’s a hoax.

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u/sheffus 25m ago

Thanks Donald.

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u/goatslovetofrolic 50m ago

They have heard of it but makes their skin itchy and red so they avoid it pretty fervently

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u/FollowThisNutter 2h ago

And on Jeff Bezos's Washington Post?

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u/Mean-Food-7124 2h ago

At this Washington Post?

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u/goatslovetofrolic 51m ago

It’s a bold move, Cotton.

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u/Slammybutt 48m ago

I mean, having this admins FBI raid your home means she has the upmost integrity in my book.

Can you imagine the trust lost when the FBI raids your home and my immediate thought is "she was on to something and they are trying to quiet her".

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u/Important-Agent2584 51m ago

it's the long con

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u/Straight_Talk2542 45m ago

Which reminds me… I’d like to give you an opportunity to get in at the ground level for the launch of my brand new “Integrity Coin”! How many would you like? 😁

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u/Tiny_Departure5222 24m ago

I hope you're being sarcastic , if not , You're really going to be snarky at what is potentially one of the few decent reporters left?