Tom Ellsworth

The heart of the post is investigative reporting.

And guess what?

Our newsroom today, even after the layoffs, is still larger

than when we did Watergate and the Pentagon Papers.

And so, and we just won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the most prestigious prize, the most prestigious Pulitzer for our investigation into Doge.

Tom, so what do you think about the way he's breaking this down, about WAPO and why he let go of 30% of his people?

Basically, what he's pointing out is that there's a fable that's in the middle of the question there.

And the question is, like, why isn't it a trust?

And what that is, that's Sorkin kind of speaking to the New York Times that bought his business.

Remember, Sorkin was an entrepreneur and sold his business for a lot of money, deal book.

And so now he's at, well, why isn't the news media a trust?

And all of a sudden he gets the facts back.

And I think that this is what every entrepreneur in America understands.

If I run a pool cleaning business and I've got a...

hundred pools that I'm cleaning and I got four guys and I'm losing a little bit of money then and three of my guys are not that busy then I got to do it with three guys because I'm protecting the jobs of the three nobody looks at what you're protecting or building they always look at the the other side because Sorkin's just trying to find the gotcha he's trying to find the angle in the interview there

And that's kind of disappointing to me.

Now, should he be asking the question?

Sure.

But he shouldn't be so surprised that an entrepreneur says, wait a minute.

Words, talks, numbers, scream.