The Post’s Ukraine reporter Lizzie Johnson wrote on X, quote, “I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a war zone,” she wrote from Ukraine.
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/6/karen_altiah_washington_post_layoffs_journalists
“Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/6/karen_altiah_washington_post_layoffs_journalists
21 Comments
collectif_imaginaire@piefed.social · 42 pts · 220d
Impeach billionaires everywhere
Turn them into millionnaires that's enough already for one human being
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 220d
Great TED Talk!
puckpuckpuckow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
Is dog food millionaire?
Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf · 29 pts · 220d
SLAMMED
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 220d
Yeah, I really wanted to pick a different post title, but community rules say I need to go with the source's headline. :(
human@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 220d
I'll be he's reeling after that bombshell.
IratePirate@feddit.org · 2 pts · 219d
Not sure on which of his yachts, but reeling, definitely.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 219d
Journalism really deserves better.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
Slams, slaps, blasts…all sound like shit you would hear in a porno title.
phillycodehound@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 220d
Bezos is despicable.
totesmygoat@piefed.ca · 14 pts · 219d
They have been down playing bozos assholery the whole time. The boat sailed before the ink dried. If you were a rat caught on that boat... I hope you like water.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 219d
Counterpoint: The type of "journalism" they did the past decade absolutely does not deserve better. You helped make this bed, now lie in it.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
Well, he's owned it since 2013, so that tracks.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 219d
Can we just use "squawk at" instead of "slam"?
Its more accurate to the real world.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
Bill Clinton can rot in hell for helping passing the legislation which allowed for media consolidation.
Ooops@feddit.org · 4 pts · 220d
Sadly the people that refused to pay to get informed and love to rage about imaginary stories they got from reading headlines only, don't deserve any better. They killed journalism despite massive amounts of warnings and now have to live with the idiot circus that replaced journalism.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 220d
I'm not sure what the fix is, aside from a foundational change in society, UBI, etc.. When I was growing up, the paper was a couple bucks a month. Really cheap and there weren't all the online alternatives. Reporting was pretty solid. Then the internet came along embracing the capitalist race to the bottom. My mom (80+ years old) still gets a Sunday paper, instead of daily, but I know that she is one of the only people on her block who even get that. And to be honest, the newspaper coverage is pretty shitty.
There has to be a way to pay reporters to do in depth reporting, taking weeks or months to do all the digging and research, but that takes a financial backing that billionaires could do, but aren't interested in doing. And it seems more and more people don't put their shrinking disposable income in support.
I'm in no way saying you're wrong, I just don't see a solution. We now just jump from outrage to outrage, informed by idiot tiktokers and uneducated ideologues. But it's free and flashy...squirrel!
ctrl_alt_esc@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 219d
Strangely enough there are other countries that manage to do this..
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 219d
Pay for a newspaper? Thanks, I will rather spend my money on supplements advertised between conspiracy theories served to me by some crazy person on YT.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
excuse me jeeves it's time for my colloidal silver bath
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 220d
SLAM!