Dramatic cuts to the Washington Post are being met with outrage as employees and the broader journalism community try to understand how such a storied institution could unravel so quickly.
The perceived lack of empathy from top management and the company’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos is compounding the fury.
As of Wednesday night, neither CEO Will Lewis nor Bezos had made any public statements about the cuts, which will impact roughly 30% of the Post’s staff.
“This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations,” the Post’s celebrated former editor-in-chief Marty Baron said in a lengthy statement.
Either you found another journal of record ten years ago or you kept eating that slop until yesterday. Idk what reignited concerns are supposed to get us. Be concerned. Don’t be concerned. He’s still going to gut the paper and fill it in with gooey reactionary fluff.
WP has been and only will be a propaganda rag since bezos bought them. End of story, no concerns were re-ignited as a result of this fluff piece.
My concerns were never extinguished, so they can’t really be reignited.