Washington Post Begins Layoffs

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/business/media/washington-post-layoffs.html

by throw0101a • 6 months ago

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throw0101a• 6 months ago

https://archive.today/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/bus...

https://archive.ph/NKJnY

(A comment I saw: "You have to understand, Bezos is down to his last $250 billion.")

cdrnsf3• 6 months ago

We need more independent journalism, not a billionaire's hobby that they use to push their own viewpoints. It's been worthless since Bezos bought it.

PaulHoule3• 6 months ago

It's more nuanced than that. Under Trump I, Bezos added the batman-like slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness". Under Trump II, Bezos sucks up to Trump.

SilverElfin2• 6 months ago

I would also say many of the settlements from news organizations are them sucking up to Trump. They chose to pay in private agreements instead of fighting frivolous lawsuits that would easily have been won. That’s a way of paying the bribe while claiming you’re just setting a lawsuit.

jfengel• 6 months ago

It's hard to separate the general malaise of the newspaper industry from the objective damage that Bezos has done to the Post's reputation.

A ton of people canceled their subscriptions right after Bezos refused to have an endorsement. Local message boards filled up with employees claiming that the actual news reporting was still being done well and not to cancel just because the op-eds were now explicitly partisan. They're probably right, but the op-ed pages represent the accumulated wisdom of journalists spending decades in the career, and having that wiped out lost a lot of the paper's value to the people who used to read it daily.

ChrisArchitect• 6 months ago

How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890034

Washington Post Begins Layoffs

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