Jeff Bezos's Destruction of "The Washington Post" Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime

"For the past week, I've been unable to retrieve the copies of The Washington Post that usually get delivered to my home, since the brutal weather in the DC area has turned my front yard into an unfordable moat of frozen snow. This now seems a richly prophetic turn of events, since my hometown newspaper is being eviscerated under the disastrous ownership of centibillionaire monopolist and MAGA flunky Jeff Bezos."

"Other outlets reported that at least a third of Post employees across business and editorial are being let go. In a Zoom call with the paper's staff-one that neither Bezos nor his handpicked Post publisher Will Lewis deigned to attend-editor in chief Matt Murray announced that the Post's sports section-a distinguished operation that formerly anchored a great deal of the paper's market penetration in the mid-Atlantic-will be effectively dismantled, with a handful of staffers left to stoke a walking-dead version of it."

Copies of The Washington Post became undeliverable for a week because brutal DC weather turned a front yard into an unfordable moat of frozen snow. The Post is undergoing widespread layoffs, with reports that at least a third of business and editorial staff will be let go. The sports section will be effectively dismantled, local news coverage is being gutted, the recently revived books section will close, the daily news podcast will end, and the international desk will be hollowed out. Bezos and handpicked publisher Will Lewis did not attend staff briefings, and foreign correspondents publicly begged for jobs without receiving a response.

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