Our nation’s esteemed journalists erupted in agony on Wednesday after the Washington Post laid off a third of its staff as part of a “broad strategic reset” intended to make the paper readable as well as profitable. They bombarded social media platforms with heartbreaking laments, lashing out at Post leadership for refusing to embrace the status quo of inexorable decline. That includes the paper’s owner—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—whose gravest sins before this week were ending (pointless) presidential endorsements and proclaiming his support for “personal liberty” and “free markets” like some deranged third-world tyrant.
Here we have curated the top 10 denunciations of this unfathomable cruelty for your immediate edification. They will (almost) make you forget that the Post lost $100 million in 2024—one of countless examples of how legacy media outlets have become distressed assets in dire need of reform. If America’s coal miners and factory workers can learn to code and get retrained to make solar panels, America’s journalists will be just fine. It may seem tragic now, but you’ll thank us later. Enjoy!
1) Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
2) Ashley Parker, the Atlantic
3) Jennifer Rubin, ex-Washington Post
4) Margaret Sullivan, ex-Washington Post
5) Philip Bump, ex-Washington Post
6) Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times
7) Glenn Kessler, ex-Washington Post
8) Karen Attiah, ex-Washington Post
9) Jonathan Capehart, ex-Washington Post
10) Michael Gold, New York Times
Rest assured, the residents of Washington, D.C., will find a way to keep electing Democrats.
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