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I was very surprised by your coverage of the Washington Post layoffs.
The fact of the matter is that that newspaper has been burning money for years, and as far as I can tell, literally no one in the editorial team (800 staff? my goodness, what have they been doing?) proposed a plan to reform their coverage to actually serve what their readers want. It seems to me that they were just a bunch of petulant and entitled children who wanted the rich guy to keep giving them money to write increasingly irrelevant nonsense.
Bezos shouldn’t be criticised for belatedly trying to align the newspaper to a plausible theory of what customers want. He should be thanked by the “editorial staff” for burning hundreds of millions of dollars to keep them highly paid for many years, even if that money is now ending. The guy who belatedly tells the truth that customers weren’t paying for their newspaper isn’t the bad guy, the bad guy here are the editorial leaders who failed to even try to turn the ship around from the world’s most obvious shipwreck.
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