Washington Post, RIP

"Bob Woodward's birthday falls on the 26th of March. There will be 83 candles on the cake and much to celebrate. Woodward has had a long, productive, and admirable life as a newspaperman and author. For more than half a century, he has worked at the Washington Post, so it is understandable that he is "crushed" by recent developments at the paper."

"These moves under the ownership of Jeff Bezos, who bought the paper in 2013, are getting a great deal of coverage, almost all of it brutal. Bezos has "killed" the Post, it was "murder," a "bloodletting," a "bloodbath." The man has gobs of money, so why should people in his employ, like hundreds of other Washington journalists, end up in the soup line?"

"No question, the Post has been a great newspaper, but, like other great newspapers, it has been hemorrhaging money for years, in part because it has been losing subscribers. It's ironic that a lot of the people now bemoaning decisions made by the Post' s top brass are themselves no longer subscribing. After Bezos decided to pull the editorial board's endorsement of Kamala Harris, 250,000 high-minded subscribers bailed out."

Bob Woodward turns 83 on March 26 and feels crushed by recent developments at the Washington Post. More than 300 journalists, including reporters in India and the Middle East, were laid off and the weekly book section was eliminated. These cuts occurred under Jeff Bezos, who bought the paper in 2013, and have drawn fierce criticism, with commentators calling the moves "murder" and a "bloodbath." The Post has been losing subscribers and hemorrhaging money for years. After the paper withdrew its editorial endorsement of Kamala Harris, roughly 250,000 subscribers canceled, costing an estimated $35 million annually.

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