No, @washingtonpost, no, no NO. How dare you? Were these pieces of silver worth the price of your soul?

The Post not only sold its front page but also sold a takeover. Who the fuck decided this? I am so ashamed of you, @washingtonpost.

And they let Trump shit on the pages of the @washingtonpost and its journalism throughout. Shameful.

This bilious insult to democracy darkens The Post's home page four times. Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.

Some people aren't seeing the ad, are you? I don't know how the targeting works. I am (for the moment) a Post subscriber. The inside ad is apparently frequency delimited; it appeared on the Kamala Harris story once and then not again, saving Trump pennies.

I just retweeted people in a half-dozens languages across the world expressing their shock at what the @washingtonpost did this morning. This harms the reputation of an institution we deeply depend upon. https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/1296388121840451584

And one more awful thing about this ad buy: the Trump/Pence logo sitting next to the Washington Post logo, as if it were editorial navigation to a news site. Awful, just awful.

The Publisher of @washingtonpost, Fred Ryan, must be held to account for this business decision.

It would appear @washingtonpost journalists may not have seen the Trump takeover (ad) of their newspaper this morning as they have in-house accounts. I've let a few know. I await the reaction of the newsroom to what their publisher has done to the reputation of their institution.

I want to know how this ad buy was approved and whether the newsroom was shown it and signed off, @washingtonpost.

And don't @ me with any crap about The Post taking ads from anyone. They are sophisticated enough to know they were used in this case to own the libs. They were Donald Trump's toy and he kicked it into the wall.

Return the money, @washingtonpost. It is tainted and now so is the newspaper.

I find it charming that some of you want to blame Google for the Trump takeover (ad) of @washingtonpost. No, it's not programmatic. It was an explicit buy. The Times wrote about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/trump-campaign-ads-dnc.html

I am also amused at the news people who, just like Facebook, are trying to demand policies that can be applied against all ads, including this morning's Trump (ad) takeover. Maybe they'll have more sympathy for Zuckerberg the next time one of its billion ads is grating.

Only this isn't one of a billion ads. This is an ad that took over the damned front page of one of the two most important newspapers in the nation.