Posted on 12/15/2022 1:02:19 PM PST by John W
Jeez, the exact words I was going to use, and in the first reply to boot.
Bezos needs more money so these people had to lose their jobs. But the globalist journalists still didn’t learn their lesson I’m sure.
Frickin’ snowflakes. Most adults have gone through and survived many RIFs during their careers. Did they think they’d have their jobs until they died? Really?
Maybe they can get jobs along side the fired pipeline workers at the John Kerry Solar Panel Factory.
I have not seen the financial statements , but just in general, isn’t the newspaper business downsizing just about everywhere? Turn call newspapers in Major cities having to cut back expenses, cut back staff , in order to stay in business?
From what I hear, internet subscriptions to newspapers have not nearly filled the Gap caused by the decline in actual printed newspaper circulation.
And advertising income for newspapers has dropped way off in the past couple of decades.
Maybe these people think they are special because the Washington Post is special and is immune to market forces?
Fuq em running...
Tough nuts. Eat it.
Guess they should ‘t have collaborated to vanquish the bad orange man as it appears the perpetual hyperventilating and histrionics was the only thing keeping the rag afloat
Are they talking about New Twitter? They sure as hell aren't talking about the Washington Post.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah, that was pretty abrupt. I’d have thrown the staff a big Chinese dinner and had all the fortune cookies say, “Hope your New Year is filled with joy. You’re fired.” Go out on a high note.
Didn’t 500 thousand subscribers dump the Washington Post ouch.
The mood is grim? Do these journalists feel entitled to a job? What the heck....
Wait ‘til Bezos sells it to Musk.
Then you’ll really see some bed wetting at the WaPo.
Same crap. Fewer shovels. Get used to it.
We are kindred spirits.
It's not even close. I coworker had worked for the New York Times advertising department back in the mid 2000s. They described meeting after meeting where the advertising revenue kept dropping while the online increase was only a fraction.
The New York Times paper subscription sells readers to high-end real estate companies, jewelry companies, fur coat companies, and tourism companies. It's near impossible to keep eyes on those ads online through all the noise.
Bezos from Amazon didn't buy the Washington Compost to make money; he bought it to make illegal political contributions-in-kind to Democrats in return for favors. He doesn't need much of a staff to do that.
When I was in Journalism School at WVU in the late 1960’s I chose the Advertising Sequence instead of News-Editorial. My gut said that the ad biz was more honest—and the gut was right.
Yes. Print media is dying. Back in the day I subscribed to the WaPo. I stopped that after 9/11 and their execrable journalism following that. And most major publications have not handled the transition to a revenue-generating on-line presence. There was another posting earlier this week that The Post has lost 500k subscribers in the last two years. What do these journos expect?!
Haha!
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