Month: January 2025

More people are leaving the Washington Post

The Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, squashed the paper’s endorsement of Harris. A Post editor squashed a cartoon showing Bezos and other billionaires sucking up to Trump. Many Post employees are leaving. Circulation is down and there are staff cuts. About 300,000 people terminated their subscriptions recently.

Jeff Bezos is worth about $250 billion. He only paid $250 million for the Post. I am sure he can get more than that in tax breaks and government contracts by appeasing Trump.

Post writers have asked us subscribers to stay to support the good journalism there. I’ve been hanging in there but all these folks leaving shows me the situation is really bad.

Another WaPo defection. This stuff about the Washington Post needing to turn a profit is bullshit. Bezos could never make another dollar and he'd still have enough to keep the Post open for 100 years. Bezos wants Trump to buy his rockets and cut his taxes. Period.

— Chris Kelsey (@chriskelsey.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T19:21:39.794Z

Scoop: Another BIG LOSS for WaPo: Phil Rucker, the newspaper's high-profile national editor, has indicated to people that he is exiting the newspaper, sources tell me.Details in @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/philip-ruc…

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-17T17:34:17.505Z

God this is so grim

— (@davidgrossman.bsky.social) 2025-01-16T15:47:23.153Z

The Washington Post began trying out a new mission statement this week: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” It comes amid turmoil in the newsroom.

— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) 2025-01-16T16:03:26.728Z

In Will Lewis's first year at 'Washington Post,' readers and staffers fleeMy story for NPR: http://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/n…

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) 2025-01-15T23:37:24.049Z

Scoop: Another BIG LOSS for WaPo. Peter Wallsten, the paper's investigations editor who has overseen several Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces of coverage, informed colleagues on Wednesday that he has accepted a job offer at The NYT. link.status.news/40xwDum

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-16T02:44:58.511Z

NEWS: More than 400 WashPost journalists – including some of its most distinguished reporters & editors – have sent plea to owner Jeff Bezos to intervene. This petition was sent last night and disclosed by NPR. While not citing CEO Will Lewis by name, it casts a harsh light on his leadership/more

— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik.bsky.social) 2025-01-15T17:37:07.925Z

Bezos spiked the Washington Post editorial endorsing Harris, saying that the paper needed to stay neutral to maintain the trust of its readership. Now the Washington Post editorial board is out with a piece urging Congress to rubber stamp nearly all of Trump's cabinet nominees

— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2025-01-12T21:24:01.493Z

This is admittedly in part self-serving but if you value the work individual journalists are doing at The Post but are nervous about the paper institutionally, it's important to send signals — shares, clicks, comments — in support of the work you like instead of only criticizing what you don't.

— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) 2025-01-09T16:42:01.947Z

Scoop: The WaPo continues to see high-profile departures. I'm told that Tim Elfrink, deputy editor for political investigations, has informed colleagues that he will be leaving the beleaguered newspaper for a job at CNN. More in @status.news: link.status.news/3WbIX0N

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-08T03:36:53.994Z

Scoop: All The WaPo departures seem to be rattling the outlet's top brass. I'm told that interim top editor, Matt Murray, has intimated he does not want departures emailed out to the entire newsroom. More details in @status.news: link.status.news/3WbIX0N

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-08T03:40:49.629Z

Scoop: It's not just the political reporters fleeing The WaPo. The health desk is also in disarray with the top two editors fleeing to other outlets & star reporter Dan Diamond entertaining his options.More from inside The Post in the latest edition of @status.news: http://www.status.news/p/will-lewis…

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy.bsky.social) 2025-01-07T02:53:22.328Z

I loved ‘Hundreds of Beavers’

‘Hundreds of Beavers’ is a hilarious independent film comedy. It’s in black and white and was made for $150,00 with no famous actors. The animal characters are obviously people in costumes and there is hardly any dialogue.

It’s very original but was clearly influenced by silent comedies, video games and cartoons. The main character experiences events that should kill him but bounces right back.

The plot especially reminded me of Buster Keaton’s slient films – the conflict between the suitor and his beloved’s father and his incompetence until his stunning overwhelming success.

It was just released on Blu-ray.

The Morrison Hotel album cover

The Morrison Hotel in Los Angeles was used for the Morrison Hotel album cover by the Doors. It caught fire irecently.

https://twitter.com/Photomusicrock/status/1876709639598772734
https://www.popspotsnyc.com/the_doors_morrison_hotel/

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