My guess is that some readers got tired of WaPo's woke crap and ended their subscriptions. Which is bad for their business.
Posted on 12/15/2022 3:40:12 PM PST by george76
Get Woke, Go Broke: Washington Post Staff Meeting Erupts Into Chaos As Layoffs Announced After losing more than half a million subscribers in the past two years, did the far-left writers and employees at the Washington Post really think they would avoid any consequences?
It would appear that they are exactly as oblivious as many people suspected.
A recent hidden camera video has surfaced of the latest Washington Post employee “town hall” meeting, in which CEO Fredrick Ryan delivers the bad news that the company will be executing worker layoffs after subscription revenues plummeted.
Not surprisingly, the employees (presumably made up primarily of journalists) erupted into a mass chatter of squawking chickens, demanding answers as well as job guarantees.
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The Washington Post has long operated as a mouthpiece/bullhorn for establishment propaganda, and has functioned as an attack dog against conservatives for years rather than an accurate news source. Specifically, the outlet’s use of fraudulent “fact checking” has contributed to a considerable decline in public trust, and this habit accelerated after Jeff Bezos acquired the Post in 2013. Amazon must not be doing so great this holiday season, and funds are drying up.
The corporate media is facing a reckoning this year going into 2023. Their audience numbers are in steep decline and have been since before the covid pandemic. While PPP loans and stimulus measures may have kept some of these outlets afloat, even that life raft is now disappearing along with ever shrinking ad revenues. The real culprit behind the fall of these companies, though, is themselves.
Woke zealotry does not sell. This is a fact proven time and time again, even more so in the past two years. When a media edifice chooses to cater to a tiny percentage of the population, many of them younger zennials with little to no money, it is only a matter of time before they face a profit collapse. The Washington Post is a victim of its own elitist ideology, and many of the employees are just as guilty as the leadership. Get woke, go broke.
These idiots are so narcissistic they never in their wildest dreams imagined they were expendable. But of course they are just ordinary dime-a dozen copywriters, who think they are Ernest Hemingway or Ernie Pyle.
Pelousy proposed funding these idiots with good ‘ol taxpayer dollars. Either the proposal did not proceed, or perhaps that is part of Pelousy’s zillions of $$$$$ she ‘earned’ and is taking home from all her hard work.
Can the Boston Globe be far behind? How about the Associated Press?
Your coworkers most likely come from very diverse backgrounds. There's Kwasei, Pedro, Thao, Ja'Kwan, Ramesh, and Muhammed—names you won't find in the Washington Post executive suite. Finally you will have a chance to actually live the wonderful diversity which you have been telling us about for some many years! Finally! A new diverse chapter in your life awaits …
My guess is that some readers got tired of WaPo's woke crap and ended their subscriptions. Which is bad for their business.
Employment matters are deemed confidential?
eff em all. Let em starve.....
as I so often say about CNN and MSNBC, who have now shrinking audiences - A rational business person would say
“Something isn’t working here. We need to find a larger customer base that creates revenues”
And yet they all plug along on the same course, wondering what’s wrong.
So much for those Harvard MBA’s!
Typical progs.
Demand this, demand that, they deserve a paycheck forever because, well, they are prog.
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Looks like all Bezos companies are on hard times. He must not be such a great businessman after all.
[It should have been financial bankruptcy.]
Wait, wouldn’t the 81 million be reading the Washington CommiePost?
The math isn’t adding up here........weird......
There is work to be had in the building trades. Wear sunscreen.
Bexos is no longer the CEO.
Exactly!
Could be worse for these paid agitators. Stalin encouraged the Bolsheviks to revolt, then shot them.
There should be mass protests against the owner of wapo for being so selfish as to lay these people off. He has plenty of money and should pay them out of his pocket no matter the state of revenue or subscriptions.
Bezos the stingy brute.
Or make solar panels
You must be a real lady.
I knew what Tango Sierra meant when I was a Cub Scout.
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