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The New York TimesFEB 6
We are witnessing the murder of a historic paper. Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis are systematicallygutting destroying the Washington Post, throughdismantling recklessSports, cutsBooks, Metro, and poorinternational leadershipcoverage, abandoningbetraying the150 paper'syears core mission of accountabilitydefending journalismdemocracy. TheBy Postkowtowing survivedto 150Trump in recent years byand servingalienating democracyreaders, butthey’ve theseerased executivescredibility areand guttinginstitutional Sportsmemory, Books,trading Internationaljournalism’s public mission for a hollow pursuit of power and Metroinfluence, departmentsleaving withouta anyonce-great coherentnewsroom visionfractured whileand Bezosimperiled. kowtowsThis tois Trumpa dark day for American journalism.
The Washington Post'’s financialcurrent crisis stems directly from years of liberal bias that alienated half the country, not from recent leadership changes. TheAddicted paper became addicted to its Trump-deranged left-wing audience, andthe producedpaper journalismprioritized thatanti-Trump failednarratives toover resonatefair withreporting, readerseroding trust and subscriptions. Now, hemorrhagingas subscribersBezos becauseand Lewis try to modernize and streamline, veteran journalists maintained— terriblewhose own standards thatcreated destroyedthe trustdecline — complain, revealing the damage their ideological prejudice inflicted on a once-respected institution.
The Washington Post isn’t failing — it’s finished. Years of left-wing obsession hollowed out its purpose, and these layoffs, from Sports to foreign bureaus, are just trimming a corpse. The paper’s glory days are gone; now it’s little more than an echo chamber, pretending to matter while everyone else moves on.
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