Last year, the Washington Post lost more than $70 million dollars, no small feat. Of course, when you see their columnist Jen Rubin talking about Trump supporters, it’s easy to see how that happened.Now the paper is preparing to lay off dozens of staffers.Amy Furr of Breitbart News:
Report — ‘The Cuts Will Be Deep’: Washington Post to Lay Off Dozens of StaffersThe Washington Post will reportedly lay off dozens of its staffers in the next few days, the news coming after the publication caught flak for not endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris (D) during the presidential election that Donald Trump won in November.In his article published on Status, Oliver Darcy wrote Sunday that “the layoffs are slated to hit the Jeff Bezos-owned and Will Lewis-led newspaper’s business division, I’m told. One person familiar with the matter said that the cuts will be deep, impacting many dozens of employees.”Bezos has reportedly been shaking up the Post after it decided not to endorse Harris, according to Breitbart News.Darcy continued:
The layoffs will surely deplete morale further inside the beleaguered newspaper, which has suffered a talent exodus over the last several weeks. As I reported earlier, star reporter Josh Dawsey will exit The Post for a job at The Wall Street Journal. His departure comes on the heels of other top staffers fleeing, including Matea Gold, Ashely Parker, Michael Scherer, Charles Lane, Tyler Pager, and Amanda Katz.
In addition to all of this, the paper is reassigning their ‘gender columnist’ Monica Hesse.
FOX News reports:
Washington Post editors ‘killed’ piece from its ‘gender columnist,’ plan to scrap role entirelyThe Washington Post is planning on eliminating its “gender columnist” position after the writer penned a piece that was ultimately scrapped by the paper’s editors, Fox News Digital has learned.Monica Hesse, who made headlines in 2018 by becoming The Post’s first-ever “gender columnist,” will not hold that title much longer after writing a column about gender was “killed” by her editors, two sources tell Fox News Digital. It is unclear what Hesse had written in the column and what the editors objected to.Hesse, currently a columnist for the paper’s Style section, is expected to be reassigned either to its Opinions section or remain in Style as a reporter, the sources added.”It’s sad and so unnecessary,” one source told Fox News Digital.
Woke journalism has hit a wall and the Washington Post is not alone in this. Ratings at CNN and MSNBC crashed after the 2024 election and have still not recovered.
The main problem for these outlets is that they have painted themselves into a corner. If they try to recalibrate politically, they will face revolt from within, as we saw when Chris Licht tried to enact reforms at CNN. Externally, their few remaining far left readers would also push back.
They are in an impossible situation entirely of their own making.
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