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One of the larger and more famous media outlets is circling the drain....one foot in the grave as it were:
The Washington Post announced on Wednesday that it is laying off hundreds of its employees, which marks one of the newspaper’s deepest workforce cuts in its history.
This development is part of a broader trend as legacy media outlets are rapidly losing viewers and readers.
[...] The layoffs are expected to affect hundreds of journalists across multiple departments, including local news and international issues, according to The New York Times. The daily “Post Reports” podcast is shutting down, as well as the Metro section, which covers Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the paper years ago and it's lost money ever since, hundreds of millions of dollars. Libtarded newspapers are a dying enterprise - we've seen it here with both the Fibune and the Slum Times, the latter operating as a non-profit for business and a charity case for otherwise unemployable hacks.
We keep hoping this is the year that the Slum times will go under. The paper keeps getting smaller and smaller while ad revenues plummet. They're doing at least as badly as the Washington Post and there isn't a billionaire looking to bail them out.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Today's paper.
First 8 pages about migrants.
I look at it at restaurant to do puzzles.
Screw them.
Much of the decimation at the Post is happening in the sports department, which will be almost completely shut down.
The Washington Post never recovered after much of its readership canceled their subscriptions when Bezos instructed the editorial staff to make no endorsement in the last Presidential election. He’s obviously not as smart as he thinks he is if he didn’t see that coming.
Both asswipe rags.
"The layoffs are expected to affect hundreds of journalists across multiple departments..."
“Journalists.” LMFAO!
Between their incessant TDS and internal squabbling, e.g. in the last presidential election when they wouldn't endorse Ms. Harris, it's amazing that they're still afloat at all.
Some are claiming that Mr. Bezos and the publisher (can't remember his name) don't have a "clear vision" for the rag.
[Learn to Code! LOL!]
Can't happen soon enough.
It is a tragic example of how journalism has been rotting its content and integrity to the left leaning.
Door dash is always hiring...so fuck you
All leftist rags that would not qualify as turlet paper for one’s arse
It’s a good start!!!
Type in 'are there any conservative newspapers'
I would not bank on AI
They fucked it before it had a chance
The slum times was always the gossip and horrorscope rag the ferals loved. Never did have good comics. The fibune used to be the source for decent news and fabulous comics. No news is real anymore. Their editors are wimpy. If they'd only write the truth, without crazy slants, people would flock to them. Remember the thick Sunday papers without woke sports, decent life style, well written news, job ads, and real estate info? Sigh. Another obummer change that destroyed life: permitting propaganda.
Love how democrats think a failed private business should still continue to pay people to put out a poor product causing said private business to continue to lose money. One thing about Besos. He didn’t get to where he is by being stupid. I’m sure he also believes the corruption Musk found in government is completely true. He’s probably fed up with democrats too.
Years ago, the local rag (not Chicago) called and asked if I would subscribe. "Your paper has called me everything. I'm on the "wrong side" of everything. Why would I read your content and support you?" Interestingly, the poor kid said "I understand."
Take that out to Covid, elections, "Orange man bad" and "news outlets" and I have a problem.
I can't even find a local paper and the "news shows" easily are filled up with hemorrhoid ads!
It's more important to have your hair fluffed up than give the listener/viewer something the saw online three days ago!
TOO, lock up any reporter, etc. ALL are left wing. All!
Sun times and wbez are the same non for profit tree. They can go on forever because suckers keep donating money that are anti-Trump.
Hey easy there! Some of those unemployable hacks are the “watchdogs.”
OMG..what am I going to line the bottom of my birds cage with if the Scum Times go under????
Jeff Bezos thought he would take over everything with Amazon...now hes realizing hes not as smart as he thinks he is...look at what just happened with Amazon fresh stores all closing, another failure as well as the washington post.
Wapo is into fairy tale journalism.
I always buy at least one copy from the news box. I take all of the papers in the box and throw them in the trash! News is something I don't know. With these so called "Newspapers" it's the same shit every day! Fuck them!
When you stop writing news that people who actually buy newspapers want to read your ad revenue will drop and then you can get that Door-Dash job.
You must have missed the long piece on NPR with a WP journalist about the coming RIF. Not as bleak as you might think and he discussed what he thought the business plan was behind Bezos' acquisition - he's a lot of things but stupid ain't one of them. Anyway, I had an hour plus drive to an appointment so I listened in - not usually a fan of NPR and call listening 'opposition research' but I was sick of all the talking heads on SiriusXM gumming the ICE issues to death. Love wrestling with the WP's free crosswords.
Way back when, I used to love the Tribune. They had investigative reporters, great columnists like John Kass. Sunday paper was about 4" thick with multiple sections of interest. Then the decline began as the moderate, conservative view was kicked to the curb and replaced with the progressive left. When John Kass's column was moved further back in the paper, you knew the once great paper was on it's way out. Remember in 2016 when the Trib endorsed Gary Johnson for President, who?? Some things just don't get better with age.
You can get the digital Trib for $1 a year and that’s a $1 too much
Bezos spent 75 million bucks on the Melania documentary. He’ll have to write off most of that as a loss. So he’s not exactly the astute businessman that many seem to think he is.
He didn’t want to endorse Harris but he wasn’t man enough to endorse Trump.
"...causing said private business to continue to lose money"
"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to earn a profit".
Samuel Gompers, founder and long-time president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
I have to say The Washinton Post had the best marching song of any newspaper, ever.
Bloomberg became a billionaire by providing business with timely, factual news...
There are no journalists left in Chicago.
Remember? I was a paperboy in the early to mid 70s and spent hours stuffing those Sunday papers and THEN go make the deliveries. It was fun though.
Good times!
They don't need "journalists". AI will write the columns and even generate deep fake photos to illustrate them.
https://johnkassnews.com/the-loss-of-trust-in-legacy-media/
So agree. I gave up on the paper. They just push a political agenda and it’s one I don’t agree with.
Some 20 something year old kid from YouTube just had the best story I have seen in years in Minnesota. Billions of dollars in fraud, political campaign donations, money laundering and a possible foreign terrorism nexus. Look at CWB Chicago. That is the best local media outlet in this toilet of a city. News papers are worthless. They can use the office space from the news papers for "new community members".
When the Trib jacked around Kass that was the final straw.... EAT IT NEWSPAPERS!!!
The want ads were good, so was the cars for sale…
Sad for the paper boys and later the adults who deliver the paper for extra money.
He sent most of his Coders to China and India already. They need to learn how to make a latte. .
Fraud exposed with USAID, biased leftist media outlets going belly up. Just picture Flounder saying “Oh boy, is this great!”
The chubby WGN kook who threw the water bottle at the ICE vehicle got preferential treatment. Locking them up is useless, court system is corrupted. We need military tribunals.
Somewhere, P.J. McNeal is shaking his head.
Kinda like this blog.
They will learn a lot from the Chinese. Our American kids want to be influencers – the Chinese kids want to cure cancer.
Chuckleheads.
Fresh stores required using cell phone or digital id to enter and they did not take cash. One existed in the Ogilvy/northwestern train station. I refused to use it.
AI will be doing your arrest and case reports as well. As a matter of fact, even though AI often gets it wrong, the grammar and spelling will probably be much better than whatever most PO‘s put out.
Love it.
Any business man has to make nice to the political leaders to "avoid" problems. Small business make nice with the alderman, bigger business try to make nice with higher lever politicians. At Bezos level, he has to worry about anti-trust, restrictions on digital commerce, and other items. So he makes nice with Trump. The 75 million, which will be a tax write-off is a small price to pay to be on Trumps good side. I'm sure if Harris was president, he would make nice to her in the interests of his businesses. That is just what they do and how the game is played.
A few years ago local 150 and the carpenters gave a million to the slum times so chicago would keep a paper dedicated to the working man lol. Bye bye dues money, that ship has sailed, nothing but hard left bullshit in that dying rag.
HERO ! LOL
There are other ways to make nice with the political leaders than to embarrass yourself with something as awful as this documentary.
Bezos greatly contributed to the impending downfall of the paper by making editorial decisions in an attempt to curry favor with DJT. It backfired when many long-time subscribers cancelled their subscriptions.
There’s a very nice obit/appreciation in the Post today for the late Sonny Jurgensen. It’s a shame that stuff like that is also going to fall by the wayside. I’m glad I grew up in a time where I got to read some of the great sportswriters. I miss that.
Actually the documentary was pretty good. Nothing earth shattering but I good look behind the scenes of what a First Lady has to go through. It's also doing pretty good at the theater box offices for a documentary.
Another CPS grad with an opinion!
The documentary was awful. It did well at the box office for a documentary because the tickets were bought out by donors who did not attend to watch it. Most of the theaters were nearly empty.
It stunk.
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