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Washington Post tells staff to stay home today for a Zoom call about ‘significant actions’ | CNN Business

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Washington Post tells staff to stay home today for a Zoom call about ‘significant actions’ | CNN Business - Lemmy.World

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----

Feb 4 at 1:55pmWeb
Show threadSnot FlickermanFeb 4

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.

Show threadmorrowindFeb 4
That doesn’t make sense. He bought it so he could control the narrative. You can’t do that if you kill the newspaper
Show thread4amFeb 4

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.

Show threadFedizenFeb 4
There’s a reason why most journalists are hated by elites but people like bari weiss are adored by then.
Show threaddylanmorganFeb 4

“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.

Show threadgrimpyFeb 4
Democracy Dies in the Darkness of Bezos’ Brain
Show threadAbidanYreFeb 4
Democracy dies in darkness
Show threadotterFeb 4
Democracy died a long time ago.
Show threadfloofloofFeb 4
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.
Show threadSanctimoniousApeFeb 4
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.
Show threadOptionalFeb 4
Too many woke lefties at the Post. They’ll staff up fully with excellent writers from Project Veritas and redstate.com.
Show threadfloofloofFeb 4
So hard to be sure of sarcasm these days. If I find you’re serious I will withdraw my upvote.
Show threadOptionalFeb 4
Rest assured it is /s
Show threadOptionalFeb 4

The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, has spoken privately about finding a path to profitability for the Post by focusing the paper’s investment on politics and a few other key areas, while cutting back in areas like sports and foreign affairs.

The richest man in the world owns them. Who the fuck do they think they’re fooling?

Show thread_haha_oh_wow_Feb 4
Is this that darkness they’ve been warning us about?