How can the Post do better? Obviously, a return to traditional fact based and balanced journalism is essential but will be extraordinarily difficult to carry out because a major change in the work product will be needed. The current staff will fight against that every step of the way, telling themselves that newspapers (and jobs for Lefty journalists) are public goods that should be supported by public spirited billionaires or through taxes.
Unfortunately, by not investigating and criticizing the Biden administration, the Washington Post missed the best opportunity in decades to rebuild their brand. Instead, the Post will have to return to fact based journalism even as unhinged Trump hating beckons every day, like vodka for a determined alcoholic.
Worse, reliable, unbiased, fact based journalism is now beyond the ability of most Post reporters. Like a losing NFL team owner, Bezos will find that simply telling his coaches and players to be better at their jobs will not do the trick of making his team into winners.
Ability matters, and the painful truth is that the Washington Post is loaded up with untalented Lefties incapable of honest, unbiased writing. Slowly, at great expense, Bezos will have to hire new reporters -- even some conservative reporters.
“The current staff will fight against that every step of the way”
If I owned the paper I would fire all politics and politics related writing, editorial and other content related staff—on the spot. If the food section had showed a history of bias I would fire that staff as well.
I would cease operation of the newspaper for as long as it takes to hire a staff of professional unbiased true journalists and editors.
Then I would hit the “restart” button.
I think it’s losing so much it even bothers a Bezos
Oddly NYT pay system seems to work for them
Of course plenty folks have to have it
Racially Sunday paper which admittedly does non political stuff better than anyone except London Sunday times
NYT travel and book review and film and broadway review are good
Science used to be