The Washington Post's suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the staff that the Jeff Bezos regime had decided "not to send a contingent to the Winter Olympics." The opening ceremony in Milan is under two weeks away. News that the Post intended to no-show an event that it had historically flooded with reporters was partially walked back on Monday,
Those long-rumored cuts now appear to be close, with staffers expecting the ax to drop in early February though nothing is certain. Inside the Post, staffers have tossed around estimates of potential cuts, with most exceeding 100, which would represent more than 10% of the newsroom but no one really knows how widespread the cuts will be or in fact if they will happen at all.
