Time for Change, More New Articles, Less Curation
When cartoonists were being censored by the Washington Post for criticising Jeff Bezos (its owner) some people did not pay enough attention, but will they now that Bezos guts the newsroom? [1-3]
Has Jeff Bezos run out of money... or?
See, it's already hard to find any news about anything and the "BBC proposes to close central regional investigations unit" because doing "Bill Gates says" puff pieces is less work and legally safer [1, 2].
Investigative media with decent budget is dying before our eyes and it's already hard to find much meaningful news about anything. It's becoming almost as bad as the slopfarms.
Therefore, after several hours of discussions yesterday, we decided to try to produce more stories, then spend less looking for other people's stories (there's really not much of substance to find anyway... not much anymore).
The oligarchy wants to gut the real press and replace media with slop and social control media (or social control media with slop in it, i.e. their own voices, mechanised). █
Related/contextual items from the news:
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Washington Post lays off Amazon.com reporter O’Donovan
Washington Post technology reporter Caroline O’Donovan, who has been covering Amazon.com and Microsoft, was among the layoffs on Wednesday.
O’Donovan joined the Post in 2022 from BuzzFeed News, where she had been a reporter since 2015. As an inaugural member of the San Francisco bureau and the award-winning tech desk, she covered labor issues in the technology industry.
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Jeff Bezos-Owned Washington Post Slashes a Third of Its Workforce
The reductions will gut major parts of the newsroom. The metro desk will shrink dramatically, the sports section will be largely dismantled, the books section will close entirely, and the daily Post Reports podcast will be canceled, according to sources at the paper. International coverage will also be reduced, though an internal memo from executive editor Matt Murray said the Post plans to maintain a “strategic overseas presence,” CNN reported.
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Jeff Bezos fires Washington Post reporter tasked with covering AMAZON as part of devastating new cuts
A reporter at the Washington Post, whose beat was writing about the goings on at Amazon, was among the 300 of employees fired by billionaire Jeff Bezos.
Caroline O'Donovan, a reporter with the news outlet since 2022, was among the hundreds laid off on Wednesday, a move that cut staff by 30 percent across nearly every department.
O'Donovan's main focus as the paper's tech reporter was focusing on Amazon - the trillion-dollar company founded by Bezos himself in 1994.
Bezos bought the Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million, and has since made decisions that have been seen as controversial to its loyal liberal-leaning audience.