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Chapter 1: What triggered the layoffs at The Washington Post?
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The first round of cuts in October led to about 14,000 white collar employees receiving pink slips. And even at the time, Amazon was talking about 30,000 job cuts. So, of course. People in the world of journalism, they were deeply affected.
They were really upset about the tens of thousands of people who are about to lose their jobs at Amazon, one of the most successful companies in America and in the world. Oh, I'm just kidding. They didn't care about that. They barely covered that. That lasted in the news for like five seconds.
What they are really, really upset about in the Bezos universe is that the Washington Post is going to lay off one third of its staff. Oh, no. So the Washington Post is cutting, wait for it, wait for it, 300 plus jobs. So I'm just going to point out where the sympathies lie. 30,000 people lose their jobs at Amazon because Amazon is cost cutting and reevaluating thanks to AI.
And the journalists are like, well, you know, those are people who work at Amazon. Those might be factory workers. Those might be middle management. They're not us. But at the Washington Post, they laid off the third string journalist in Gaza who may or may not be a contractor for Hamas. They laid off the race and ethnicity reporter for the Washington Post.
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Chapter 2: How is the media reacting to the Washington Post layoffs?
You mean you mean that people covering issues, they're going to be covering issues without regard to the race of the reporter? That sounds terribly not racist. We can't have that. Obviously, this was a decision driven by Jeff Bezos's inherent evil white racism, says the guy who gets paid to talk about racism all day long.
Robert McCartney, a retired Washington Post editor, correspondent, and columnist, quote, 39 years at paper before Bezos began gutting it, He says, reader asks, is democracy dies in darkness now the mission statement? Do you remember when the Washington Post decided after Donald Trump was elected? It's before Bezos bought the paper that they were going to retitle.
They're going to put it on their masthead. The statement democracy dies in darkness. The idea being that Donald Trump was an inherent threat to all things democratic and the Washington Post would hold him responsible. Yeah, that worked. Great job, guys.
Breonna Tucker, the national politics breaking news reporter and the National Association of Black Journalists Political Task Force chair, put out a statement, quote, I'm affected by layoffs at The Washington Post today. There aren't enough words to describe the immense privilege and profound responsibility I've felt since hired at 25 as an editor.
As a black woman covering politics, a dwindling cohort today, that feeling is magnified. Again, if your first take about being fired by a paper that is bleeding money is that you were fired because of your race, perhaps that betrays the style of coverage that you were doing, which might be one of the reasons the paper was suffering. I don't know.
I'm just going to put it out there that if you see everything through a racial lens and your paper for whom you are reporting keeps losing money and then you get fired. And in your firing statement, you talk about your specific race. Maybe you were part of the problem, not part of the solution. Maybe.
Peter Baker over at the New York Times, the chief White House correspondent, put out a tweet, quote,
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Amazon's job cuts for the media?
Okay, I love the premise of this tweet, which is that somehow it's a charity. that he bought it as a charity operation. The only number that matters there, that's a lot of numbers. The only number that matters in that tweet is last reported annual losses of Post $100 million. Maybe one of the reasons that Jeff Bezos is worth $250 billion is because he does not hold on to declining assets.
He does not allow his businesses to be run like a charity. Maybe that would be the reason. Maybe that's why he is extraordinarily wealthy and most of the reporters working for him are not because maybe they think they're in the charity business. But this is crazy. The approach here is nuts. Again, as someone...
who's the co-founder of a major media organization in the same business as the Washington Post. Let me just say that when you lose money and you can see where you're losing money, you have to lay people off. That is how business works. And Jeff Bezos is not doing anything wrong by doing all of that.
The view of journalists that somehow they are owed their position because the person who hires them is rich is extraordinary, especially when many of these same journalists are asking that the federal government step in and make the owners of their own businesses not rich anymore.
And you understand they are living off the charitable giving they think of the rich people while ripping into the rich people and declaring that they are the ones who are very, very important. And the people who hire them, they're just supposed to absorb the losses. That's an insane tweet. It really is crazy. Bernie Sanders...
Complete leech on the ass of American society for the last eight decades. A useless human being in the extreme. Put out a statement, quote, If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie and $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy. What is this? He doesn't need to. He doesn't need I wasn't aware that every decision that you make in economic life is dictated by need. This is why Bernie Sanders, by the way, thinks that you should not have shampoo choices. He has literally said stuff like this, that I go to the supermarket and I don't understand why are there 11 choices for deodorant?
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Chapter 4: How is the Trump administration addressing immigration issues?
I don't wear any. Dude, it's not about what you need in America. It's about what you want. That's why this country kicks ass. And that's why your version of the country sucks. It is not about what people need. It is about what they want to do and what they have the freedom to do.
And if Bernie Sanders wants to get together a bunch of his left wing friends to put together a 501c3 and rehire all the race reporters at the Washington Post, he is free to do that. In fact, if Bernie wanted, he could sell his lake house and he could hire several of these journalists and they could work for him and they could gallivant into the utopian socialist
sunset together and enjoy their time. But he's not going to do any of that. By the way, when it comes to Bernie Sanders himself, he spent over 550 grand in 2025 campaign funds on private jets. How many Washington Post salaries could that pay? And the notion that business owners somehow owe it to their employees to keep employing them as the business loses money is crazy towns. It is crazy towns.
It is stupid. And it is driven, again, by this bizarre ideology that you are somehow owed a job if your boss is rich, even if the company that you work for is losing money and you are unproductive in helping to drive the business's turnaround. Go start a business yourself if you want to absorb that risk. The beauty of being a salaried employee is that the check comes in the mail every week.
The beauty of being an investor is that you receive the benefit of the decisions that you make at the top level. But it also means you absorb the losses. And so that means if you don't wish to absorb losses, you cut costs. That is how business works. If people want to go start their own, they can. They are free to do so.
And that the sort of yelling that Jeff Bezos is really, really rich, therefore he should just subsidize all of these journalists or pseudo journalists. I think many of them are pseudo journalists in what they do is ridiculous. In a second, we'll get to why the Washington Post is actually in trouble, why they've been failing first.
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of the Washington Post's staffing changes?
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I don't think that's actually true. I think that the reason The Washington Post is failing is because it failed to adjust to the sort of underlying trends in media. The reality is the New York Times is every bit as left wing as it ever was. And the New York Times has been killing it.
The New York Times went from something like a million paid subscribers 10 years ago to 10 million paid subscribers today. Meanwhile, the Washington Post is stuck in the doldrums at 2 million paid subscribers. And that is less to do with the politics of those various outlets than it has to do with their choices in business.
This is why it's so funny when people say, why is the New York Times so successful? It must be because of their amazing news coverage. No, wrong. The reason the New York Times is successful is because it made a series of purchases of nearly unrelated businesses and then drove all of those businesses toward a subscriber-based model that is almost like bundling. It's basically a bundling strategy.
In the same way, you are now seeing major media corporations in the entertainment space buy one another and then drive all of the subscription revenue toward one hub. That is what the New York Times did to become successful. It's not because they hired a bunch of stellar White House reporters. It ain't Peter Baker who's driving the subscription model of the New York Times.
He's certainly a reporter who is doing his job. He's not hurting the New York Times, and it's a very profitable enterprise, the New York Times. But the idea that the New York Times chiefly is making bank right now because of their stellar Middle East reporting or because they hired a stringer in Ukraine is nonsense. It's just not true.
And all these journalists who are proclaiming that it is so are foolish. They don't understand how business works. And they are self-glorifying, patting themselves on the back. The reason the New York Times grew is because they shelled out a bunch of money in 2022 to buy, for example, The Athletic, which is a sports outlet. And then subscriptions are driven back toward the New York Times company.
They bought Wordle in 2022. What does Wordle have to do with the New York Times? The answer is nothing. It raises engagement. There's a free game played by a lot of people and it means a lot of people are on the New York Times app and a certain percentage of those people will be upsold into the subscription. They bought Wirecutter, which is a product recommendation site. They expanded massively.
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