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Good day all. Well, it looks like a few hundred now former employees of the Washington Compost have discovered what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said back in the 80\u2019s. The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of other people\u2019s money. The Washington Compost has just laid off a large number of staffers.<\/p>\n
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The Washington Compost, once known as the Washington Post, has been losing money for decades. For some unknown reason, Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezo bought the paper and pumped in a large infusion of cash. However, the Compost, as it\u2019s now known, has never turned a profit or even come close to breaking even. Now Bezos has decided it\u2019s time to overhaul that rag. This meant closing departments and massive job cuts. Here are the details from CNN<\/b><\/a>:<\/p>\n The Washington Post laid off about one in three employees across the company Wednesday morning, dealing another big blow to a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.<\/b><\/p>\n Oh well, it sucks to be them.<\/p>\n Bezos has been pushing the Post\u2019s management team to return the publication to profitability, but many journalists at the paper have criticized his approach and questioned his motives.<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cBezos is not trying to save The Washington Post. He\u2019s trying to survive Donald Trump,\u201d former Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler said in a column earlier this week.<\/b><\/p>\n I recall when Kessler left the Compost. I don\u2019t recall if he was pushed out or left on his own. I do know that his \u201cFact checks\u201d were about as accurate as the forecasts of a 19th<\/sup> century weatherman.<\/p>\n Post employees had been bracing for widespread layoffs for several weeks. On Wednesday morning, staffers were told to \u201cstay home today\u201d while notices were sent about who had been laid off.<\/b><\/p>\n This is how businesses conduct layoffs these days. I don\u2019t approve of it. It used to be that you were told in the place of employment and allowed to collect your possessions and say goodbye. Now? They lock you out and call you to pick up your stuff that someone else has boxed up.<\/p>\n The impacts include dramatically shrinking the Metro desk, shutting down almost the entire Sports section, closing the Books section, and cancelling the daily \u201cPost Reports\u201d podcast, sources at the newspaper said.<\/b><\/p>\n I\u2019ve never heard of that podcast, which I suspect was part of the problem. It wasn\u2019t generating any revenue and no one was actually watching it.<\/p>\n The Post\u2019s international coverage is also being markedly reduced, though some bureaus outside the US will maintain a \u201cstrategic overseas presence,\u201d Murray said.<\/b><\/p>\n I suspect that in the next year or so, those bureaus will also be closed down unless they start bringing in good stories and making money.<\/p>\n At the Post lately, \u201cit\u2019s just been one funeral after the other,\u201d contributor Sally Quinn, wife of the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, told CNN\u2019s Pamela Brown Wednesday morning.<\/b><\/p>\n Quinn said of Bezos, \u201cIt just seems heartbreaking that he doesn\u2019t feel the paper is important enough to bankroll.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cThey say\u201d the cuts are for the good of the paper long-term, she added, but \u201cif you don\u2019t have the great reporters, you don\u2019t have any good content, who\u2019s going to want to buy it?\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Well that\u2019s part of the problem now. The Compost doesn\u2019t have great content. By and large, what they\u2019ve been calling News has generally been Democrat propaganda. The Compost has also lost or settled a number of lawsuits because their \u201cReporting\u201d was absolute garbage and in a few cases, outright fabrications.<\/p>\n Things started really going bad with the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. It wasn\u2019t so much the events, they did need to be covered, it was how things were presented. With Watergate, it was all about \u201cGetting\u201d Richard Nixon. (He certainly didn\u2019t help himself) It also isn\u2019t helping matters that the current staffers are even more blatant about their political beliefs. They have given up any pretense of being neutral observers and reporters.<\/p>\n Employees described the severe cuts in social media posts Wednesday morning. \u201cI\u2019m out, along with just a ton of the best in the biz. Horrible,\u201d the Post\u2019s Amazon beat reporter Caroline O\u2019Donovan wrote on X.<\/b><\/p>\n I think a number of people would debate you regarding the \u201cBest in the biz\u201d Ms. O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post,\u201d race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote. \u201cThis comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn\u2019t a financial decision, it was an ideological one.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n Race and ethnicity reporter? Why did that position exist in the first place? In any case, all those being let go are blaming this on politics and that Bezos is trying to curry favor with the Trump Administration. While Bezos and Amazon, along with a few other Bezos holding do have business dealing with the Government, it wasn\u2019t politics that caused the cutbacks. It was financial. There is only so much money that an owner is willing to lose before he decides it\u2019s time to cut his losses.<\/p>\n The problem for Bezos is that it may be to late to save the Washington Post. The few changes Bezos made regarding their opinion page and his decision to endorse no one for president in 2024 caused the staffers to explode. It also caused all the special snowflakes Libtards and Democrats who liked having a propaganda sheet that reinforced their delusions cancel their subscription in a snit. (Leftists will not tolerate any opinion they don\u2019t agree with) I suspect that the days are numbered for the Washington Post.<\/p>\n Thatisall<\/p>\n ~The Angry Webmaster~<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good day all. Well, it looks like a few hundred now former employees of the Washington Compost have discovered what Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said back in the 80\u2019s. 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