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I used to be a WaPo Opinions video editor, and if a video didn't have 100 views within the first five minutes of publishing on Youtube, I would've considered it an embarrassing failure. Fortunately didn't happen much!

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social

"So far, the investment has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views." More from @nataliekorach.bsky.social: www.status.news/p/washington...

status.newsThe Post’s Opinion DivideAs Adam O’Neal carries out Jeff Bezos’ vision for The Washington Post’s opinion section, staffers tell Status they question the paper’s priorities in the wake of sweeping layoffs.

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

11 May

can't imagine why this wapo opinions video isn't doing well on youtube! (one of them tells us he went to harvard within the first 30 seconds, i shit you not)

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

11 May

If I had brought this bland-ass footage to my editor she would have been shocked and told me to reshoot. There are windows and walls more interesting than these literally 20 feet away in the same room. I can only assume the videographer hates their fucking guts.

Henry Carlos Preinbeam, Jr.

@birchchirper.bsky.social

11 May

There are windows and walls more interesting than these men in the same room!

Gillian Brockell

@gillianbrockell.com

Lmao

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