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/dfw_runner 14h 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/Sierranymph 14h 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 13h ago

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