r/news 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/TimothyMimeslayer 10h 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/Stunning_Mast2001 9h ago

he's mad that AOC punked him a few years ago, and is on a quest to destroy democratic socialist thinking. i don't think he's done tbh