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----
41 Comments
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 193 pts · 220d
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.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 29 pts · 220d
Simple enough to set up a perpetual purpose trust or something appropriate, with a couple billion in funding, to ensure that the paper continues to do its job. But instead, he’s got to get his sticky fingers all over it.
village604@adultswim.fan · 14 pts · 220d
That's the only reason he bought it.
grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one · 24 pts · 220d
Democracy Dies in the Darkness of Bezos’ Brain
morrowind@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 220d
That doesn't make sense. He bought it so he could control the narrative. You can't do that if you kill the newspaper
4am@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 220d
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.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 220d
There's a reason why most journalists are hated by elites but people like bari weiss are adored by then.
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 220d
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
Orwell understood that power and authoritarianism were the issue, not so much the supposed ideology underpinning the powerful.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
Such a good quote.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
Just replace human-generated content with AI slop.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
It's not like you need journalists to regurgitate verbatim Republican talking points that are sent to you.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 220d
This is why billionaires shouldn't own news companies
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 66 pts · 220d
Democracy dies
in darknessotter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 220d
Democracy died a long time ago.
village604@adultswim.fan · 11 pts · 220d
The US wasn't really ever a true democracy anyways.
btsax@reddthat.com · 13 pts · 220d
If I had to estimate it might be about three-fifths of a democracy on a good day
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 220d
Yeah, I was implying that it's been dead for centuries 🙇🏽♂️
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 220d
All men were created equal and yet in the US they've made it very clear they do not believe, whatsoever in this
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 220d
Created? Nah. Lose that bedtime story BS. ✊🏼 We're only equal as livestock are —to them. Shake off their yokes. 🌈
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 220d
We can't even decide what the fuck democracy is. Ask 100 Americans and they'll give you 100 answers. It's a meaningless emotion word for us.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
Oh piss off with that BS.
Cue the MAGA crap of "We're a Republic!" type of stupidity.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 220d
Manjushri@piefed.social · 2 pts · 220d
Democracy Dies in Darkness
...Bezos: turns off the lights.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 220d
The richest man in the world owns them. Who the fuck do they think they’re fooling?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 220d
"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.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 220d
Paywall?! CNN is delusional if they think anyone will pay to read their corporate propaganda.
jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 220d
I've been dodging it with Firefox's reader mode when I do want to read those
maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 220d
I’ve noticed many websites are throwing errors after scrolling a bit in reader mode. I’ve been dodging it by printing the page to pdf before it has a chance.
humanamerican@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 220d
Smart trick. Also, then you have an archive of the article should the site decide to revise history at a later date.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 220d
Is this that darkness they've been warning us about?
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 220d
Hello darkness my old friend
OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
We're welcoming fascists here again.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 13 pts · 220d
We don’t want you here with your American guns when we say we are firing most of you.
Talaraine@fedia.io · 10 pts · 220d
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.
treadful@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 220d
The problem with that is that these talented individuals don't have the capital to create those competitors.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 220d
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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 220d
Too many woke lefties at the Post. They’ll staff up fully with excellent writers from Project Veritas and redstate.com.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 220d
So hard to be sure of sarcasm these days. If I find you're serious I will withdraw my upvote.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 220d
Rest assured it is /s
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 7 pts · 220d
Probably couldn't care much less, IMHO. I think the project was just to keep her busy & distract her from shit like the Epstein files. He's too self-centered to actually GAF about even her.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 220d
duplicate