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re: Mass layoffs and section eliminations announced at Washington Post, including sports
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:41 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:41 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Those payments to Nick Sandmann must be really starting to bite.
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Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:44 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
For perspective on the huge number of jobs that have been lost from journalism:
I knew a young woman whose Father worked for a major newspaper in that area (not the post). His sole job was following and reporting horse racing every day. She lived well with no hint of poverty.
I'm sure that the people who followed and bet on the horses supported his paper because of his reports. Elsewise, he wouldn't have held onto his job.
I knew a young woman whose Father worked for a major newspaper in that area (not the post). His sole job was following and reporting horse racing every day. She lived well with no hint of poverty.
I'm sure that the people who followed and bet on the horses supported his paper because of his reports. Elsewise, he wouldn't have held onto his job.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:48 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sadly they'll end up at CNN or MSNBC.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:48 am to fareplay
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Political glasses off
Ironic, considering one of the reasons they're losing their jobs is because they in fact never take their political glasses off.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:49 am to fareplay
Washington Post. Boo fricking hoo.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 11:59 am to RolltidePA
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Newspapers today are the equivalent of using horses as transportation 30 years post the introduction of the Model T.
Agree totally…and that is why they are all but gone. However, the thing I have issue with are all of the “newsrooms: disappearing along with them.
We are pretty quickly moving towards one “official” news source that is put out by the government. I don’t think that is a good thing at all.
I like to hear all points of view, so I can make my own decisions.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:02 pm to Spankum
good means less fake stories
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:06 pm to Spankum
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However, the thing I have issue with are all of the “newsrooms: disappearing along with them.
Agreed. I value local news reporting. I can keep track of local sports and events, and our local paper isn’t too slanted. I don’t need some group out of Houston or Austin using AI to give me
Corpus Christi news.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:07 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I wonder when Trump will blast out a Truth post about it.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:35 pm to TygerLyfe
The industry has been dying for years. It's plain to see. Bezos is trying to save it by being less partisan. That's not going to please the DC metro subscribers, but it's probably a reasonable strategy if they wish to be a national publication.
But again, the newspaper industry was read its last rites years ago. Hope doesn't float. People going down with the ship need to realize that.
But again, the newspaper industry was read its last rites years ago. Hope doesn't float. People going down with the ship need to realize that.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:46 pm to 1BamaRTR
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It sucks for these people but we’re living in an age where the vast majority of people don’t read articles anymore. It’s all about the headline (often times not even by the author but instead a user on which ever site it was posted on) followed by jumping straight into the comment section with an opinion already formed
Not only that, its behind a paywall.
All these companies have gotten greedy. Used to survive on ads. Now almost everything wants you to subscribe. Hope that you forget about it and keep drafting out of your account for years on end.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
More like Washington Compost
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:57 pm to danilo
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:58 pm to fareplay
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More Americans losing their livelihood for benefit of 1% is not good news. Any job loss is not good news. Political glasses off and you will see this is a worse America
bullshite!
The media is one of the biggest purveyors of division in our society. Go out in the world and you see, generally, most people treat others with a basic level of respect regardless of gender, race, creed, political leaning, etc. But then you read the newspapers or watch 24 hour news and you'd think society is at its most divisive point in history. That people of different demographics hate each other...which fuels actual hate that didn't really exist before.
Rags like the Washington Post are antiquated relics of a previous era where the amount of information available and accessible was far less. The world changed...and they were left trying to survive by creating division SOLELY for attention (clicks) vs. simply reporting.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 12:59 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I love the idea and history of the print news
But it doesn't exist in a meaningful way anymore.
I just saw Chuck Todd say something like "Bezos doesn't understand how bad this looks to normal people" - which shows the incredible arrogance and disconnect of the modern MSM.
Normal people don't care. Normal people have been sneered at by MSM for decades.
But it doesn't exist in a meaningful way anymore.
I just saw Chuck Todd say something like "Bezos doesn't understand how bad this looks to normal people" - which shows the incredible arrogance and disconnect of the modern MSM.
Normal people don't care. Normal people have been sneered at by MSM for decades.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:06 pm to tigersmanager
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good means less fake stories
They published several thousand new stories last year. What are examples of all of these "fake stories" from last year?
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:06 pm to Pettifogger
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I just saw Chuck Todd say something like "Bezos doesn't understand how bad this looks to normal people"
That's hilarious.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:09 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Their coverage of the Israeli-Gaza conflict has been putrid and essentially Hamas propaganda
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:11 pm to Pettifogger
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I just saw Chuck Todd say something like "Bezos doesn't understand how bad this looks to normal people" - which shows the incredible arrogance and disconnect of the modern MSM.
Chuck Todd doesn't understand how this looks to people outside the Beltway.
Posted on 2/4/26 at 1:12 pm to Spankum
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We are pretty quickly moving towards one “official” news source that is put out by the government. I don’t think that is a good thing at all.
Unfortunately, that was a component of their ultimate demise in the first place. I know the paper that I grew up with, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, which is closing its doors for good later this year, was nothing more than a thinly veiled mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. You rarely, if ever got a balanced take on things. They tried to get better near the end of the line, but the outcome of failure had long been solidified.
Agree with you though, that this is something that I don't celebrate. I may have disagreed with many of the writers, but at least there was the spirit of integrity and working from a basis of facts. There were actual avenues to respond to the op-ed as well if there was something worth disputing. The end of real professionalism and the reader / writer relationship is not a net positive.
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 1:22 pm
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