Quote:As you are probably aware, the liberal Washington Post just laid off a third of their staff. It turns out their far left business model was not sustainable.

What has happened since then has been very informative about what is wrong with the journalism industry.

These people feel like they are entitled to their jobs at the Washington Post and instead of going home and working on their resumes, a bunch of them protested outside the paper’s offices. It’s like something you would see on a college campus, which speaks volumes about who these people are and how they see the world.

Like all people on the far left, their first instinct is to create a political protest. This is how they think all problems are solved.

Watch below as a woman leads the crowd in a chant of: “Who makes the Post? We do.”

We have also just learned that the WaPo has laid off 14 of their 19 climate change reporters. Why did the paper have 19 climate change reporters?

From Climate Colored Goggles:

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team

The Washington Post produced some of America’s finest climate journalism over the last decade, aggressively covering President Trump’s regulatory rollbacks and winning a Pulitzer Prize for a series about Earth’s fastest-warming places. Alongside the New York Times and the Associated Press, I don’t think any U.S. news outlet published a greater volume of urgent, high-quality climate and clean energy coverage.

Everything changed on Wednesday morning.

The Post sent layoff notices to at least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told me, part of a massive round of cost-cutting that will see more than 300 journalists lose their jobs — about 30% of all employees at the Jeff Bezos-owned company.

Maybe this is one of the reasons why the paper was losing hundreds of millions a year.

This explains so much. The Washington Post’s political coverage sounds like it’s written by a bunch of college campus activists because that’s who they are. Is there any wonder why the paper was going broke?

(02-06-2026 02:59 PM)miko33 Wrote:  Climate change fear mongering is dead. Everyone wants to be the epicenter of AI Tech once the smoke clears and the winners are declared. That takes LOTS OF POWER. Unless they build an ass load of nuke plants like yesterday...they're all on team "Drill baby drill". They won't admit it, but they are.

There's no time in today's world for people obsessed with microaggressions and "luxury" level injustices. There never was time for that; however, people finally realize it now.

(02-06-2026 02:27 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  Does the WAPO have any black people on staff? Or did they just not get fired?

Quote:The Washington Post CEO Will Lewis has turned in his resignation as there have been mass layoffs across the company. His position will be filled by acting CEO and publisher Jeff D'Onofrio, who is the former CEO of Tumblr.

"All - after two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have a better owner," Lewis wrote in an email to colleagues.

"During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day," he added.


Axios reports that Jeff D'Onofrio has been named as acting CEO and publisher. In a note to staff at the outlet, D'Onofrio said, "We are ending a hard week of change with more change. This is a challenging time across all media organizations, and The Post is unfortunately no exception."


"I'm honored to take the helm as acting Publisher and CEO to lead us into a sustainable, successful future with the strength of our journalism as our north star," he added in the message to employees.

As the layoffs have been taking place, employees have been critical of Lewis, who was seen at a Super Bowl event on Thursday as the layoffs were announced. According to the outlet, Lewis' tension with the newsroom as well as the opinion section rejiggered by Jeff Bezos contributed to the exodus of staff.


Lewis was previously the CEO of the Wall Street Journal as well as the parent Dow Jones. "The Post has an essential journalistic mission and an extraordinary opportunity," Bezos said in a statement.

(02-06-2026 02:09 PM)gdunn Wrote:  These people don't understand they work at the pleasure of their employer

(02-09-2026 05:25 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  

(02-06-2026 02:09 PM)gdunn Wrote:  These people don't understand they work at the pleasure of their employer

Indirectly, they "really" work at the pleasure of the readers. The comPost has been a leftist rag since my Dad had his "I don't believe what the Post says" bumper sticker on our '74 Dodge station wagon.

Our local leftist pamphlet, Richmond Times Dispatch, which actually used to be a fine publication only 30 years ago.

I cancelled delivery probably 10 years but a good friend still gets it daily.

It's now 11 pages a day on average. No one reads that ****** rag any longer either.

Quote:It was recently reported that the Washington Post cut a third of its staff in a large round of layoffs. Conservatives, who have been annoyed for years by the paper’s left-wing bias, took pleasure in this news.

But it turns out that the job cuts were far more extensive than people knew.

The paper actually cut almost 48 percent of their staff. That is huge.

The Washingtonian reported:

Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought

The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastating cuts inflicted on its Metro section and foreign bureaus. But the extent of the damage is actually greater than first reported.

News reports about the layoffs, including this one from the New York Times, generally agreed that about one-third of the Post’s newsroom would be eliminated by the layoffs. However, an accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper’s management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ.

According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post climate reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. With the newsroom’s pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed…

Previous reports said that nearly 300 union members were among those laid off last week. That figure did not account for dozens more layoffs among Post journalists who aren’t covered by the Guild’s contract, including staffers in its foreign bureaus and editors and managers in Washington.

John Nolte of Breitbart News commented on this:

So it wasn’t just domestic-liars-who-hate-us that got the axe, the axe also fell on foreign-liars-who-hate-us.

The most important thing here is that the corporate media are dying. CNN is dying. The New York Times is basically a lifestyle and puzzle publication now. Rolling Stone, Newsweek, MS NOW, NPR, PBS… They are all losing influence, trust, and subscribers…

The brand will always be around. But that’s not the same. What the Washington Post was — a powerful and influential national newspaper — it is no more. Those days are over, and things will only get worse because if there is anything we have learned about the corporate media, it is that they don’t learn, can’t learn, refuse to learn.

The Washington Post did this to itself. It’s hard to feel any sympathy.

Quote:Some of the people who were fired by the Washington Post in the latest round of layoffs, showed up at the building this week to protest. These people cannot and will not accept the fact that they were fired. They actually believe that they have a ‘right’ to these jobs.

A group of them tried to enter the building, only to find that their key cards no longer worked and they had already been locked out.

When they finally leave, the spokesman vows that they will be back. Why? What’s the point? Have you ever seen a more entitled group of people?

Hill Rag reports:

“My personal opinion is that it’s union-busting,” said Lisa Gusty, a Washington Post senior software engineer and co-vice chair of The Washington Post Tech Guild. “They’re trying to sow confusion and sort of pit us against one another.”

The Guild represents employees in engineering, product design and data roles at the Washington Post.

Gusty commented in the wake of a wave of layoffs and access restrictions that have shaken the newspaper’s technology workforce in recent days and raised questions about whether management’s actions comply with federal labor law…

On Feb. 10, Tech Guild members gathered at Post headquarters and attempted to enter their offices. Post security guards turned them away, an encounter the union recorded on video.

After the action, Guild members regrouped to plan and support the affected workers, Gusty said. The Guild is preparing to file a complaint with the NLRB. The union has established a GoFundMe page to prepare for a strike.

“We’re fighting to get Jeff Bezos and the new CEO to roll back these cuts,” Gusty said. “We’ve been fighting this too long to let this go.”

Watch below:

These folks would be wise to go home and start applying for other jobs. They are not going to be able to protest their way back into the Washington Post.