Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Refocuses Coverage

Is the Washington Post failing due to Bezos' reckless leadership or years of alienating liberal bias?

Published 19 hours ago·Updated 18 hours ago

Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Refocuses Coverage

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Above: A view of the Washington Post office building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 27. Image credit: Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg/Getty Images

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Left narrative

We are witnessing the murder of a historic paper. Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis are gutting the Post, dismantling Sports, Books, Metro and international coverage, in a stunning betrayal of 150 years of defending democracy. By kowtowing to Trump in recent years and alienating readers, they’ve erased credibility and institutional memory, trading journalism’s public mission for a hollow pursuit of power and influence, leaving a once-great newsroom fractured and imperiled. This is a dark day for American journalism.

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Right narrative

The Washington Post’s current crisis stems from years of liberal bias that alienated half the country, not recent leadership changes. Addicted to its left-wing audience, the paper prioritized anti-Trump narratives over fair reporting, eroding trust and subscriptions. Now, as Bezos and Lewis try to modernize and streamline, veteran journalists — whose own standards created the decline — complain, revealing the damage their ideological prejudice inflicted on a once-respected institution.

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Cynical narrative

The Washington Post isn’t failing — it’s finished. Years of ideological "journalism" hollowed out its purpose, and these layoffs are just trimming a corpse that's never coming back to life. The paper’s glory days are gone. Now it’s little more than an echo chamber, pretending to matter while everyone else moves on. Did anyone even know it had a Sports section?

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Establishment-critical narrative

At the Washington Post, journalists still want to do the work — investigating, collaborating and shedding light on the important stories — but the media system itself is broken. Cost-cutting, layoffs, AI and video-driven priorities force talented reporters to abandon their craft. The industry rewards clicks over accountability, leaving those who aim to serve the public struggling to survive in a landscape rigged against real journalism.

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