Jeff Bezos could literally have subsidized the Washington Post for 20 years at a TOTAL cost of a fraction of 1 percent of his net worth.
Instead he put 300 professionals out of work and destroyed the institution that inspired me and a lot of others to become journalists.
Anyway, fuck that guy.
The #WashingtonPost is laying off ONE-THIRD of its staff in the #newsroom & other departments, a brutal blow at one of #journalism’s most legendary brands.
The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks on Wednesday, including eliminating its sports department & shrinking the number of #journalists it stations overseas. The changes were announced by executive editor Matt Murray in a Zoom meeting with staff.
#news #FourthEstate #Bezos #billionaires #media
https://apnews.com/article/washington-post-staff-reduction-layoffs-cuts-923f87d4bd319c8a64b278165d0a6e27?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-04-Breaking+News
"As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrative to shore up their softening base and silence their opponents."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #murder #execution #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #WhiteSupremacy
/1
"Everything Trump says is a lie, but the media dutifully repeats Trump’s lies as if they deserve equal dignity with truthful statements by Democrats. …
In the face of the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, every news agency with a White House pool reporter should recall the reporter from the assignment and turn in their White House credentials."
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #normalization
/7
"Every reference to Trump should include the fact that he is a twice-impeached, convicted felon who lies whenever he speaks. The press has bowed before Trump for eight years. He learned from their subservience and took the next logical step. It is time for the mainstream media to become part of the resistance. Better late than never!"
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #normalization
/8
"Members of the media are understandably outraged, as they should be. This is a five-alarm fire. But it is one that has been burning for eight years. Trump attacked, mocked, and sued journalists in his first term. But the media continued to report on Trump as if he were a 'normal' president who deserved to be treated with a presumption of regularity and respect."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #normalization
/6
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/it-is-time-for-the-mainstream-media
"Everything Trump says is a lie, but the media dutifully repeats Trump’s lies as if they deserve equal dignity with truthful statements by Democrats. …
In the face of the arrest of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, every news agency with a White House pool reporter should recall the reporter from the assignment and turn in their White House credentials."
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #normalization
/7
"The administration is appealing to the MAGA racist and Christian nationalist base by demonstrating that it is willing to violate the Constitution to impose MAGA’s ideology on the nation. But it is also apparently trying to signal to white American citizens that they should think they are safe from an authoritarian administration: its top victims remain Black Americans and people of color."
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #CBP #murder #execution #WhiteSupremacy
/5
"Members of the media are understandably outraged, as they should be. This is a five-alarm fire. But it is one that has been burning for eight years. Trump attacked, mocked, and sued journalists in his first term. But the media continued to report on Trump as if he were a 'normal' president who deserved to be treated with a presumption of regularity and respect."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #normalization
/6
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/it-is-time-for-the-mainstream-media
"As the American people continue to express their fury over the violence of federal agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere, officials from the Trump administration today tried to shift the public narrative to shore up their softening base and silence their opponents."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort #Trump #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #ICE #murder #execution #media #journalists #FirstAmendment #WhiteSupremacy
/1
"It’s been incredibly sad to see my beloved news industry struggle so publicly with whether and how to tell the truth about the wanton, brutal killing of Alex Pretti -- someone who did absolutely nothing wrong –- at the hands of the masked federal agents terrorizing his city."
~ Dan Froomkin
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/moments-of-bravery-and-cowardice
"It’s been incredibly sad to see my beloved news industry struggle so publicly with whether and how to tell the truth about the wanton, brutal killing of Alex Pretti -- someone who did absolutely nothing wrong –- at the hands of the masked federal agents terrorizing his city."
~ Dan Froomkin
#AlexPretti #Trump #MaskedThugs #murder #execution #media #journalists #BothSides
/1
https://criticalread.substack.com/p/moments-of-bravery-and-cowardice
"An Israeli air strike killed an Agence France-Presse (AFP) freelancer and two other #journalists in #Gaza on Wednesday, January 21, the territory's civil defense agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored ceasefire in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, but both sides have alleged frequent violations" | Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/22/israeli-strike-kills-three-gaza-journalists-including-afp-freelancer_6749669_4.html
"An Israeli air strike killed an Agence France-Presse (AFP) freelancer and two other #journalists in #Gaza on Wednesday, January 21, the territory's civil defense agency said, while the military said it struck "suspects" operating a drone. Since October 10, a fragile US-sponsored ceasefire in Gaza has largely halted the fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas, but both sides have alleged frequent violations" | Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/22/israeli-strike-kills-three-gaza-journalists-including-afp-freelancer_6749669_4.html
🗨️👩🏽💻 This is what I mean when I criticize #media / #journalists: panel discussions, channel appearances don't offer legally admissible information
I do think Courtney is a good #photojournalist, but these n-podcasts are starting to get on my nerves
Because I'm convinced that redundancies in #journalism waste time, we're feeding platforms for our own resumes, which does absolutely nothing to help victims of war! And it's striking: we always see the same faces - why?
🗨️👩🏽💻 This is what I mean when I criticize #media / #journalists: panel discussions, channel appearances don't offer legally admissible information
I do think Courtney is a good #photojournalist, but these n-podcasts are starting to get on my nerves
Because I'm convinced that redundancies in #journalism waste time, we're feeding platforms for our own resumes, which does absolutely nothing to help victims of war! And it's striking: we always see the same faces - why?
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