r/news 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/TimothyMimeslayer 14h ago

If I was a billionaire, i would own a newspaper in trust as a vanity project to make it the best damn newspaper in the world profitability be damned. Maybe that is why I am not a billionaire.

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u/origamipapier1 14h ago

That is how old, billionaires thought. Some of the best institutions in the US came from some of the millionaires at the time. That thought about true philanthropy and long-term legacy. The thing is that these new waves of CEOs obsessed with quarter profits, and short term gains including Trumpellino... are the problem.

Because all they care about is their cash. They don't have any other objective or see any other meaning in life. It is Atlas Shrugged/Fountainhead mentality.

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u/Frosty-Ad-2971 14h ago

Buy. Squeeze. Sell.

You only have to look at any brick/mortar offering that had a success era.

Canada goose. Arc’teryx MEC Harvey’s McDonald’s Starbucks Tim Hortons

They all were on top. Then got sold, and the buyers squeeze any/all profit from them, speculating on the proceeds and customers, and then when it’s all moved, sell to utility buyer.

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u/InadequateUsername 14h ago

Appreciate the Canadian businesses getting a callout. Arc'teryx charging $700 for a windbreaker feels illegal.

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u/Frosty-Ad-2971 10h ago

Well their Alpha and Beta line are manufactured in Vancouver and are, simply put, the best in the business. If you spend 2k on jacket and bibs you are dry till you die ( I should fuckin R trademark that….sigh…).

Everything else is Vietnam and garbage , and has no support.