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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  • [–] 67 points 9 months ago

    This is why billionaires shouldn't own news companies

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Democracy died a long time ago.

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

    The US wasn't really ever a true democracy anyways.

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

    Yeah, I was implying that it's been dead for centuries 🙇🏽‍♂️

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  • [–] 42 points 9 months ago

    The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, has spoken privately about finding a path to profitability for the Post by focusing the paper’s investment on politics and a few other key areas, while cutting back in areas like sports and foreign affairs.

    The richest man in the world owns them. Who the fuck do they think they’re fooling?

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    "Thank you for attending the call. Today we will be discussing various methods for sucking billionaire's cocks. Please pay close attention. Your livelihood depends on it."

    So weird to see all our old, respected media bend over and get ass rammed into meaninglessness. Well, whatever. So long WP.

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

    Paywall?! CNN is delusional if they think anyone will pay to read their corporate propaganda.

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

    I've been dodging it with Firefox's reader mode when I do want to read those

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

    Is this that darkness they've been warning us about?

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    We don’t want you here with your American guns when we say we are firing most of you.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, we need to get better about talented individuals in these industries having at least an idea floating around in their minds to rebuild a new 'insert company' when they pull this shit. Like, have it in your backpocket and be ready to act. The only thing that can stop this shit is to use those good reputations to create competitive products.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    Did Trump's people demand that he kill it? Maybe the Melania movie bribe wasn't enough, or maybe Trump's angry that people hate the movie and are making fun of it.

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

    Too many woke lefties at the Post. They’ll staff up fully with excellent writers from Project Veritas and redstate.com.

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