The Washington Post is expected to announce mass layoffs Wednesday morning, dealing a significant blow to a storied media company and a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

----Well, this is definitely the killing blow to the Washington Bezos----

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[–] 191 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Should have never been sold to Bezos in the first place, for this reason.

Bezos has money coming out his fucking ass, but not enough to keep a newspaper running? Bullshit, this kind of killing blow is a choice, and that choice has a purpose, and that purpose is to remove access to information from the citizenry.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    That doesn't make sense. He bought it so he could control the narrative. You can't do that if you kill the newspaper

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If the staff won’t cooperate in controlling the narrative to your liking, you just remove the staff. If that kills the paper, so what? It wasn’t doing what you wanted anyway.

    I hope this opens some eyes to see why billionaires have too much control.

    If we are going to have to have capital (we don’t, but I don’t think Americans are entirely ready to hear that yet), capitalists shouldn’t be allowed into positions that allow this type of thing to go on unchecked.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    There's a reason why most journalists are hated by elites but people like bari weiss are adored by then.

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