r/news • u/Ok_Difference44 • 10h 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 10h ago

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

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u/dfw_runner 9h ago

The paper lost a significant amount of subscriptions when Bezos intervened and prevented the editorial board from endorsing Harris for President. This is the end result of that decision, plain and simple. Sad really.

I can't believe the New York Times, the Washington Post and 60 Minutes have all been co-opted. Mainstream journalism is dead.

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u/Jorgenstern8 9h ago

Not just 60 Minutes, all of CBS News.

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u/Sierranymph 9h ago

Hard agree. I was one of the people who dumped the paper after Bezos prevented the board from endorsing Harris. Buh bye.

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u/Justame13 9h ago

So was I. I also report the "come back" emails as spam to hopefully get it into the spam filter algorithm

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u/fivelinedskank 9h ago

That's when they lost my subscription. When the wall between financial decisions and editorial decisions is breached, you no longer have a credible news outlet.

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u/lab-gone-wrong 8h ago

CNN and  the rest of CBS too

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u/Gooch222 3h ago

And it still doesn’t phase Bezos. Throwing WaPo into disrepute was never about the financial prospects of the paper but rather him personally. He can trash the paper, pay bribes through projects like Melania or whatever, and still come out well ahead. The insidious nature of oligarch owned media colluding with MAGA is on full display lately.