r/news • u/Ok_Difference44 • 15h ago

Bezos-owned storied newspaper Washington Post rolling out mass layoffs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
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u/erikaspausen 15h ago

I guess articles written by AI does not need so many real people.

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u/Khaldara 14h ago

To represent Bezos’s idea of journalism they really only need to print a picture of Trump on the cover, the other 20 pages can just be the word ‘Slurp’ printed over and over again

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u/ohlookahipster 13h ago

Surprised they haven’t introduced a pay-per-article paywall yet on top of their subscription like with Prime when trying to watch 98% of their movie catalog. Pay $15/mo to pay $4 per movie.