IronpigsWizardFeb 4

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

https://lemmy.world/post/42659858

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----

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 thread4am

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.

Feb 4 at 5:13pmWeb
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.