Hannah Rosen

I worked at The Post.

I have many friends there.

But I can imagine people who are not in any of those categories reading this news and thinking layoffs happen all the time, especially newspaper layoffs.

This paper still exists, even though with less staff.

So why should they care?

Why is it significant for people who don't live in Washington, aren't journalists?

So it sounds like what you're saying is the reason this is significant for everybody is because how Bezos changed his mind and changed his attitude towards the paper.

So can you say a little more about that?

Like what about his change of heart is important or strikes you as important?

So it sounds like your analysis is very Bezos focused because you could parse the blame for what happened on a few different places.

It could be ownership, Jeff Bezos, management, just the state of the industry, you know, the product itself.

But you're focused on Bezos.

So initially, you were talking about ideological factors, like a desire to curry favor with Trump, or at least not to irritate Trump.

It sounds like now you're talking about more sort of financial reasons.

I mean, that suggests that, what, he's a bad businessman?

Like, we don't think of Jeff Bezos as a bad businessman.

Like, what does that suggest?

So this is what, when people say a death spiral for news outlets, where you have a shrinking business leads to a downsized product, which leads to more shrinking business.

Like, is that where the post is now?

After the break, should people have really expected anything better from Bezos?