The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has announced major job cuts, saying that "painful" restructuring was needed at the storied American newspaper. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/05/bezos-washington-post-layoffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #jeffbezos #washingtonpost #media #journalism #newspapers #newyorktimes
Alex Akselrod
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In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
In a world of Jeff Bezoses, be a Marty Baron.
#JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
bhaugen
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"The layoffs are solely the responsibility of inept, incompetent, and inattentive ownership and management. It inherited a great American paper and left it in the rubble, putting hundreds of talented journalists out on the street."
~ Jennifer Rubin
"Let’s be clear about what this really is. This is not restructuring. This is not belt-tightening. This is not a difficult but necessary business decision.
This is capitulation to authoritarianism.
While journalists were being purged from The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos chose to spend approximately $75 million funding a movie about Melania Trump."
~ Ben Meiselas
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-letter-to-jeff-bezos-and-the-washington
"The layoffs are solely the responsibility of inept, incompetent, and inattentive ownership and management. It inherited a great American paper and left it in the rubble, putting hundreds of talented journalists out on the street."
~ Jennifer Rubin
"A man like Jeff Bezos does not do anything because he has to. It has been decades since he was constrained by anything other than his own desires. What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened for one reason and one reason only: Because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so.
Because he gets off on civic vandalism."
"Let’s be clear about what this really is. This is not restructuring. This is not belt-tightening. This is not a difficult but necessary business decision.
This is capitulation to authoritarianism.
While journalists were being purged from The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos chose to spend approximately $75 million funding a movie about Melania Trump."
~ Ben Meiselas
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/a-letter-to-jeff-bezos-and-the-washington
"Most of the obituaries will blame environmental changes of technology and news consumption. These changes are real, but they are not why the Post is now in hospice.
No, this is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-dies-in-broad-daylight-bezos-lewis-layoffs
"A man like Jeff Bezos does not do anything because he has to. It has been decades since he was constrained by anything other than his own desires. What happened to the Washington Post over the last three years happened for one reason and one reason only: Because Jeff Bezos wanted it to be so.
Because he gets off on civic vandalism."
"It’s hard to be in Washington DC at this moment and react to anything except the devastating news that Jeff Bezos, with more than $250 billion at his personal disposal, and Will Lewis, the discredited Murdoch/Fleet Street refugee Bezos brought in to run (and ruin) the Washington Post, have today announced what is effectively the Post’s demise.:
~ James Fallows
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/management-under-a-mad-king-the-courtiers
"Most of the obituaries will blame environmental changes of technology and news consumption. These changes are real, but they are not why the Post is now in hospice.
No, this is a story about incompetent leadership that destroyed the paper’s economic viability. It’s a story of self-mutilation."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-washington-post-dies-in-broad-daylight-bezos-lewis-layoffs
"So people sat at home, at their computers, refreshing the screen again and again, to find out if they still had an income while bleating out their anger and terrors on a private newspaper chat group. Two writers reported they got the shaft while breastfeeding their newborns, dripping tears onto their faces. Someone included contacts for suicide prevention."
Things can die in darkness, for sure.
"It’s hard to be in Washington DC at this moment and react to anything except the devastating news that Jeff Bezos, with more than $250 billion at his personal disposal, and Will Lewis, the discredited Murdoch/Fleet Street refugee Bezos brought in to run (and ruin) the Washington Post, have today announced what is effectively the Post’s demise.:
~ James Fallows
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WillLewis #Trump
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https://fallows.substack.com/p/management-under-a-mad-king-the-courtiers
AnarchoNinaWrites
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Oh yeah, Ukraine, Jerusalem, nothing happening there right now, nope....
"Here's a film about the President's trafficked non-wife instead!"
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles #MelaniaTrump #Ukraine #Jerusalem
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But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania's vanity project.
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Apparently The Post has laid off every reporter and
editor covering the Middle East. Jerusalem bureau
closed. Also Ukraine bureau closed.
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Not just once, but multiple times!
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles #MelaniaTrump
Oh yeah, Ukraine, Jerusalem, nothing happening there right now, nope....
"Here's a film about the President's trafficked non-wife instead!"
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles #MelaniaTrump #Ukraine #Jerusalem
I imagine she lives her whole life like that, just denying the reality in front of her dead cold eyes.
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles
Not just once, but multiple times!
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles #MelaniaTrump
Destroy All Billionaires!
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles
I imagine she lives her whole life like that, just denying the reality in front of her dead cold eyes.
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles
Destroy All Billionaires!
#JeffBezos #MelaniaFilm #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Oligarchs #NoBillionaires #EatTheRich #EpsteinClass #ClanOfPaedophiles
Fediverse Development
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The Washington Post has laid off about 30% of staff across all departments, shuttering the sports and books sections and letting go all Middle East correspondents and editors, plus the beat reporter who covered Amazon. Former race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote on X: "I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one." Here's more from @Variety.
The Washington Post has laid off about 30% of staff across all departments, shuttering the sports and books sections and letting go all Middle East correspondents and editors, plus the beat reporter who covered Amazon. Former race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote on X: "I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one." Here's more from @Variety.
"So people sat at home, at their computers, refreshing the screen again and again, to find out if they still had an income while bleating out their anger and terrors on a private newspaper chat group. Two writers reported they got the shaft while breastfeeding their newborns, dripping tears onto their faces. Someone included contacts for suicide prevention."
Things can die in darkness, for sure.
happyborg
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‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-silicon-valley #JeffreyEpstein #SiliconValley #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #EvanWilliams #BillGates #MarissaMayer #MichaelWolff #StephenHawking #AndrewMountbattenwindsor #BillClinton #PeterGabriel #NoamChomsky #MohammedBinSalman #TheSuperrich #UsNews #WorldNews
‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-silicon-valley #JeffreyEpstein #SiliconValley #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin #EvanWilliams #BillGates #MarissaMayer #MichaelWolff #StephenHawking #AndrewMountbattenwindsor #BillClinton #PeterGabriel #NoamChomsky #MohammedBinSalman #TheSuperrich #UsNews #WorldNews
Reading about how Jeff Bezos was clinking glasses and enjoying a dinner with Trump and Melania at Mar-a-Lago as they watched a private premier of her 40 million dollar Amazon Prime(TM) Movie.
ALL while the nation was wrestling with its moral rage and grief over the second public execution in three weeks, out in Minnesota.
IF anything screamed "get out the guillotines"...