The Washington Post Lays Off A Third Of Its Workforce, Is Dead | Defector

"Jeff Bezos, one of the handful of wealthiest people on the planet, is through pretending to be a conscientious steward of the 150-year-old newspaper, and is now radically remaking it into what could only seem appropriate to a profoundly incurious and patriarchal investor freak. The is wiping out its Books section, functionally euthanizing a once proud and robust Sports section, downsizing dramatically its international operation, and restructuring an already neglected and starved Metro section, amid deep and disfiguring cuts to the paper's editorial staff."

"For all of his grandstanding horseshit, Bezos has pretty quickly lost interest in operating a publication that might ever, even by accident, express or defend or otherwise illuminate ideas that oppose his own. Less than a year ago, he abruptly remade the Post's Opinion section, narrowing its focus to the defense of personal liberties and of free markets and refusing to allow "viewpoints opposing those pillars" to appear henceforth inside his newspaper."

The Washington Post is undergoing radical restructuring under Jeff Bezos, eliminating the Books section, crippling Sports, downsizing international coverage, and reshaping Metro amid major editorial cuts. More than 300 newsroom employees were reported laid off, and roughly one-third of all Post staff are being dismissed. Opinion was narrowed to defend personal liberties and free markets, with a policy refusing viewpoints that oppose those pillars. The paper declined to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election after a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris was reportedly axed by Bezos, while CEO William Lewis framed the move as "character and courage in service to the American ethic."

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