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The Washington Post has a continuously falling circulation and advertising revenue:
Newspaper revenue was down 7 percent, while print advertising revenue at the Post fell 15 percent. Revenue from the company's online operations, including Washingtonpost.com and Slate, rose 8 percent.
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Through the first six months of the year, the Post's Sunday circulation is down 6.1 percent. Daily circulation is down 9.3 percent.
One major reason for this decline, next to its warmongering neoconned opinion pages, is a lackluster quality of the Washington Post's reporting. Take for example the opening graph of this piece today in which Karin Brulliard and Joby Warrick and their editors at the Washington Post show their lack of high school level geographical knowledge:
MAFRAQ, Jordan — Hundreds of Syrian refugees slip across the border near here each night with little more than harrowing tales and occasionally grave wounds. For this landlocked and resource-poor kingdom, the newcomers are fueling new economic burdens and worries that the war next door might spread beyond its own frontiers.
Even while (expansively) traveling and writing from a foreign country these reporters are unable to get that country's geography right. They obviously never learned of the Port of Aqaba:
The Port of Aqaba is at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba off the Red Sea in southeast Jordan.
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Due to its location at the crossroads of trade routes between Europe, Asia, and Africa, the area of Port of Aqaba has been inhabited since at least 4000 BC.
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In 2008, the Port of Aqaba welcomed over three thousand vessel calls. Of these, 1.8 thousand ships carried passengers, including 103 cruise ships. The remaining 1336 cargo vessels included 362 container vessels and vessels carrying dry bulk (347), liquid bulk (202), roll-on/roll-off cargoes (195), general cargo (93), and miscellaneous cargoes (34). The Port of Aqaba served 1.2 million passengers in 2008. It handled 17 million tons of cargo, including 9.2 million tons of imports and 7.8 million tons of exports.
It is not really astonishing that the Post gets basic geographical and economic facts wrong. Employing journalists like Joby Warrick, who is a basically a stenographer, best known for his know-nothing anti-Iran propaganda and who only probably might one day become a journalist, is a deathtrap for any newspaper.
UDPATE (12:30pm): The Washington Post has now corrected the piece and cut out the "landlocked". But the editors did not have the greatness of leaving a correction remark at the end of it. The piece now says:
MAFRAQ, Jordan — Hundreds of Syrian refugees slip across the border near here each night with little more than harrowing tales and occasionally grave wounds. For this resource-poor kingdom, the newcomers are fueling new economic burdens and worries that the war next door might spread beyond its own frontiers.
In the comments to that piece at the WaPo side at least two readers also called out that "landlocked" mistake. Those commands have not (yet) been deleted. For the record a cut from the screenshot I made of the original piece:
The full screenshot is available on request.