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Washington Post Bleeding Subscribers,
Considering Layoffs: Report

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/30/2022 6:47:08 PM

The Washington Post is considering laying off around 10 percent of its newsroom in response to declining profits, according to a new report from the New York Times. Fred Ryan, the Post‘s CEO, is said to have suggested cutting 100 positions after ad revenue in the first half of this year fell 15 percent as compared to last year, several people with knowledge fo the discussions told the Times. The cuts could be made through hiring freezes or layoffs, or a combination of the two. A spokesman for the Post denied that the paper was going to be shrinking in size and suggested

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Reply 1 - Posted by: TJ54 8/30/2022 6:50:23 PM (No. 1263627)
Start with fake conservative Jennifer Rubin
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Reply 2 - Posted by: proactus 8/30/2022 6:52:52 PM (No. 1263629)
Just transfers them all over to the delivery van division at Amazon. Make sure you turn your headlights on though, ‘deliveries die in darkness’.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Luke21 8/30/2022 6:58:47 PM (No. 1263634)
Hell's preferred newspaper.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: TLCary 8/30/2022 6:59:00 PM (No. 1263635)
I would not want to be a white journalist at the WaPo. There is no protection on that endangered specials list.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Californian 8/30/2022 7:04:47 PM (No. 1263644)
They could learn to code... cough. Layoffs at a failing Marxist birdcage liner paper are not surprising. What is dumb is doing it by hiring freezes. That never actually happens. They need to man up, pick some useless people and dump them. Not let the whimsy of people quitting decide which roles will remain unfilled.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 8/30/2022 7:07:54 PM (No. 1263649)
WaPo, ruh roh, What went wrong need I ask?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Hazymac 8/30/2022 7:37:29 PM (No. 1263664)
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman: "I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.”
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Reply 8 - Posted by: bpl40 8/30/2022 7:40:47 PM (No. 1263666)
These people didn't 'go woke'. They were already there ahead of every one else. Wonder they are still in business.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Proud Texan 8/30/2022 7:53:48 PM (No. 1263673)
The feel-good story for the day!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Jethro bo 8/30/2022 8:13:52 PM (No. 1263700)
Aren't layoffs Bourgeoisie? Layoffs all about the bourgeois profit and not for the little guy? How could a nice Marxist paper like the WaPoo sacrifice the little guy over profit? Oh the humanity!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mossley 8/30/2022 8:19:39 PM (No. 1263706)
You know, they could try printing the truth on occasion, and not just DNC talking points. It would make them unique in the MSM.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/30/2022 8:29:18 PM (No. 1263718)
As much as I would like to celebrate the demise of the WAPO, this is happening to print media everywhere. Even the few moderate or conservative newspapers are bleeding subscribers. I worked for our local daily in another life long, long ago. We covered mainly the local stuff...weddings, high school football, club meetings and they promoted the local charities. Our local “daily” is down to 4 days a week. There is almost no display advertising. They hang on by stuffing advertising inserts in with the paper. For national news they pick up the left wing wire services in a county that went 70% for Trump so they have managed to alienate a bunch of potential subscribers. I flatter myself that I know how to turn it around but at 80 years old, I am pretty much out of gas.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 8/30/2022 8:29:57 PM (No. 1263719)
I'd play a sad, sad song on my teeny, tiny violin, but it's at the cleaners.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: stablemoney 8/30/2022 8:56:47 PM (No. 1263752)
Get Bezos to make a capital contribution.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 8/30/2022 8:56:52 PM (No. 1263753)
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch...
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Highvoltage 8/30/2022 9:13:58 PM (No. 1263765)
Good news!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: formerNYer 8/30/2022 9:19:04 PM (No. 1263772)
gee, that's a shame
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Amanoftwistsandturns 8/30/2022 9:41:02 PM (No. 1263796)
I can remember when every driveway in my neighborhood had the Washington Post on it in the morning. Now no one does.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 8/30/2022 10:48:11 PM (No. 1263830)
#7, as a Southerner I despise Sherman for his war crimes, but I must agree with him about reporters…
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Reply 20 - Posted by: DVC 8/30/2022 10:58:26 PM (No. 1263836)
Like CNN, they find that the market for unhinged lunatic leftist's propaganda is small and rapidly shrinking. I hope they go away.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Omen55 8/30/2022 11:09:35 PM (No. 1263851)
LOL!!
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Strike3 8/30/2022 11:32:57 PM (No. 1263873)
The Slimes went through the same thing recently, now they are gloating that the same fate has befallen the WaPo. Neither one is worth the paper it's printed upon.
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