[PeterPrinciple]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/los-angeles-times-lays-off-115-people-dc-bureau-decimated-union-blasts-brutal-and-inhumane-job-losses-update/ar-BB1h8ZeP

Staffers who were laid off have been posting message on X/Twitter all day long. Sarah Wire, Justice Department and national security reporter based in Washington, D.C., wrote that the bureau there “was decimated.”
“They haven’t been filling jobs for two years now and that reduced number was cut even more today,” she wrote. “There are five reporters left covering DC.”

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only five left, that is a start

[Red Badger]

Why does it take 5 to cover DC?

All you need is 3, max, for WH, Congress and SCOTUS.................

[Elsie]

Sarah Wire, Justice Department and national security reporter based in Washington, D.C., wrote that the bureau there “was decimated.”

Looks like Sarah has no dictionary handy...

The newspaper will reduce its newsroom staff by 20%...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decimate