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Someone or group needs to pick up the pieces and start replacing the Post.

Is this part of project 2025, silence the press?

You just posted a list of WHY they were terminated.

Great journalists don't work for a Trump funding nazi.

This was intentional because they don't care what you do if you're not jumping up and down for billionaires

Based on that list, I'm willing to bet they're being dropped not for someone else's failure, but for their actual successes.

Now it's just a tabloid.

And those cuts were done in supplication to the orange emperor.

Anyone have a list of who got axe?

He bought it to kill it.

So many billionaires are about ego, and there has to be somebody with money out there, whether it's performative or genuine, that could start a newspaper just to look like a crazy winner against all these other assholes.

Our media ecosystem needed a major overhaul. And maybe a lot of journalists are waking up realizing if they don't start telling us the cold hard facts our country will be gone too. I'm hoping the good ones create an alliance and start the first free press of our new age.

That's kinda the whole point. A message to anyone trying to expose the regime and their crimes will lose their career and livelyhood.

Almost like they don’t want to report the news

the world's biggest yacht and those space amusement park rides for the boss's wife ain't gonna pay for themselves

😒☹️

Call me skeptical, but I smelled doom when he bought the place and before. His involvement seems to have hastened the inevitable.

Time for them to create a new media company and stick it to the man

Bezos needs to sell the damned newspaper. Why he has decided to kill it other than to protect Trump makes no sense.

So the experiment in running a media outlet is over? I wonder what he’ll do know?

The Washington Post is rapidly becoming an everyday rag. It USED TO BE a great newspaper with investigative reporting, but no more. I don't doubt that the cast-off journalists can be picked up by other news channels, maybe not newspapers, but news channels.

Democracy is dead… now they’ve come to kill the executioner. #wapo

I have a feeling these firings - cbs too - plus the general outpouring of legitimacy from the large news outlets will inevitably have the opposite effect the ultra rich are hoping Long term they just released them from editorial control, it only takes one voice to inspire change, now they can speak

Of course, he wouldn’t let anyone else buy. He’s a trump collaborator.

Try to follow and support true journalists on other platforms. Abandon the broligarch owned media.

it's not about failures. it's about silencing opposition to rump, putin, greed, dictatorship, ethnic cleansing, fraud, corruption...

Billionaires are not poltical; they are power hungry narcissists! As long as they have control, they could careless! They yearn for those things that sometimes we take for granted, love, joy, family and community! Really, look at their miserable lives,raping and torturing children!

Fair enough. Some good millionaires would do.

BUT- and I suspect this is your point- a system that allows for the accumulation of such disproportionate wealth by a few is fundamentally undemocratic and unjust, as power will always flow to wealth, & wealth to power. We need a society where no individual can gain so much power over others.

I know of one. @mcuban.bsky.social

Couldn’t agree more - and readership takes time that, at least in this current moment, time we just don’t have

Hoping the nyt implodes as well ... especially Mags Habberman CANCEL YOUR WAPO SUBSCRIPTIONS 🗞 CANCEL YOUR NYT SUBSCRIPTIONS 🗞 Please support Independent Media 🙏

Hey you guys/gals decided to keep working for WaPo after everything Bezos did to ruin the paper. You don't get any sympathy.

I hope that a whole new national newspaper will evolve, owned and supported by journalists and the public to offset the unemployment of all these journalists. I would donate or subscribe. Anyone else thinking the same thing?

Well those wedding dresses won’t pay for themselves.

Kinda hoping @karaswisher.bsky.social spearheads a brand rescue mission that just reassembles them under a different name

This is what happens when we as a society allow billionaires to own media platforms. Journalism isn't centered around loyalty, the second media puts loyalty and profitability over journalism it gives away it's credibility

They all need counter-platforms. These are the most valuable people out there right now, and we need their skills and voices.

Greener pastures. You will be welcomed. bsky.app/profile/marc...

This is the energy to save America. bsky.app/profile/eric...

Last stage of #authoritarian takeover at this point. The oligarchs capturing the media — that’s real folks. They buy it and destroy it.

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They were the target! They will pop up on independent media

Were they dropped due to failures? Or is it just Bezos trying to curry favour with King Donald?

Billionaires care about & reward stockholders more than employees & customers. Capitalism is racing to a huge cliff drop ....

Fuck all the media whores. Lets start from scratch.

Horrible. The recent post investigations of government surveillance and ICE spying have been essential, incredible.

WaPo can't be trusted.

Many small flaps of wings create the storm of change.

Democracy Dies in Darkness. Oligarchs make sure it’s very dark.

The Post-Washington Post, if you will?

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so does journalism. They'll be back in action.

There's The Contrarian but I'm not sure that's rising to the level needed.

There's The 51st! But its focus is mainly local.

They don’t want reporters telling the truth. He wants it destroyed.

Trump doesn't want truth tellers. He wants liars and sheep. Bezos is paying to play in Trump's new order just like the rest of them

This is surely more about placating Trump to make more money. Somebody has shit on Bezos that would land him in prison.

It’s horrible. I grew up reading the post. I would steal the sports page from my dad. I just can’t believe bezos that piece of shit destroyed one of the best newspapers ever

Now if only we had the wherewithal to all boycott Amazon

It looks like deliberate destruction

The parasitic financier media will not tolerate actual journalism. They will find it unprofitable in the same way pharma companies find cures unprofitable compared to chronic treatments. Working people need to talk to family, friends, neighbors and coworkers to promote a laborist movement.

So sad

This is how people whose building is bought by a private equity firm feel when they get booted out of their homes. #unrestrainedcapitalism

Yeah but did they suck up to trump?

That seems to be the issue: great journalism done by journalists not afraid to report honestly despite their editors and owners succumbing to threats and fascism.

All part of the effort to allow the corruption of Trump, Bezos and their billionaire peers to proceed unexposed and unreported. Democracy does indeed die in darkness.

Oh Meidas Brothers!

Bezos wants to keep the gravy train going from his government contracts and wants to be in an space contracts.

Stop using Amazon

Now they can go in depth journalism. They still have their contacts . And start their own media . True journalist know the work . Power to the true journalist .

"Democracy Dies in Darkness”

tesla too.

Catch and Kill writ large

Everything Trump Touches Dies Well done Jeff Fucking penis head

Nope. It’s part of the Fascist takeover of the United States of America.

It's like Bezos and Musk are in a competition of who can destroy more brand value

I’ll donate my cancelled Amazon prime subscription fees.

Layoffs happen everyday. Did any of these employees ever take a stand against the shallowing out of mainstream media?

Blame Melania…….. $75 million is quite a write off. You have to make up the difference somewhere.

First reporter that gets to Zorro and secures a couple of #CadaverDogs is going to have one helluva scoop.

Come on folks! Let's get each of these people a couple million.

Can you give them more than 5 minutes to catch their breath? One suspects they have strategies. They are not stupid.

That was my first thought.

How do we get you guys routed to established independent publications readers can support vs <fill in the blank>? Is anyone @hearingthingsco.bsky.social ? #musicsky

crowdfund wapo revival? someone could staff an entire global operation by noon tomorrow wish i had evil person money

Has anyone thought of creating a new nonprofit newspaper like the Guardian?

I'm very glad we will get more stories from you, but I can't imagine how much you are hurting for your colleagues. I'm so sorry.

Bezo buying the post was its death knell

This is the coup de grâce in the half-century revenge plot for uncovering Watergate.

It's almost like he did it on purpose...?

That’s called success. To a Nazi

Ohhh!!! Now do CBS

Bezos’ intention was clear when he bought it. He degraded it immediately, removed its independence and now is laying off staff in large numbers. Post subscriptions will continue to fall off a cliff but Bezos does not care. He has achieved his goal of using the Post as supplication to Trump.

Sounds like The United States.

It's not for the failures. It's what the T$ script asks for

After the wildfire, the renewal begins. Shoots sprout one by one from the devastation, grow better and sustain life. It's the talent, courage and ideas that define the future.

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I worked at the largest daily newspaper in my state right out of high school. Yes, it was forever ago, but watching newspapers die over the years has been painful. This one has been coming for the past few years. Democracy has died.

This is terrible

If we understand the Bezos Post not as a news organization, but as a machine that spits out propaganda intended to insulate its owner from the mercurial wrath of Donald Trump, the evisceration of its capability to function as a news organization makes perfect sense.

I'll be looking for them at Indie sites where I get most of my news these days and where some of your former colleagues already are.

All those accolades are precisely why they were dropped.

What the Post FORGOT to do is take away their pens and paper. Did the Post honestly think that laying them off meant silencing their voices? Without editorial direction and restraint, those journalists have nothing to stop them from blowing the whistle on their former employer...oopski!

They weren't lost. We know where they are. They were fired.

Because truth must die, for billionaires to rule.

Probably more about the fact Bezos can make more government money from his rocket business.

No wonder they offered a very cheap non-refundable annual subscription.

"Lost" is hardly the appropriate verb.

Only GOP dick suckers were allowed to stay.

But the hacks and sychophants should be fine.

On the bright side, they won't have to be there for the day the lights go off. Sad decade for the truth.

Well hopefully it will make more independent journalists who break news and actually report it all!

Sort of like the CIA, FBI, CDC and DOJ

Maybe those post journalists will stop the both sidism bullshit that has permeated journalism since Bush2, now that they have time on their hands.

The paper lost all credibility two years ago. They all should have left a long time ago and brought the paper to its knees.