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.
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…
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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…
The whole DEI thing is pretty straightforward.DEI is the far from perfect vehicle through which organizations try to uphold basic civil rights commitments.Basic civil rights commitments have always been “divisive” bc not everyone is down w civil rights.www.businessinsider.com/costco-dei-d…
A corporation that depends on diverse populations as both customers and underpaid labor. If I dined there, I'd stop. McDonald’s rolls back DEI programs, ending push for greater diversitywww.theguardian.com/business/202…
Republicans are blaming the California fires on DEI. McDonald's & other corporations are bending the knee and removing their DEI initiatives.Our take: In Defense of DEI, and why it actually benefits American workers. Please read and share.www.theguardian.com/commentisfre…
💥 NEWS: #Apple board joins Costco and at least 7 other corporate boards, telling right-wing nonprofit NO to #DEI roll back proposal. Apple board unanimously rejects proposal, just as boards of Costco, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo and others have done. #CorpGovwww.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24…
Google is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, following other tech giants in supporting an administration that will shape the company’s historic antitrust case.
NEW: Trump’s inaugural committee has raised so much money — $170M & counting — that it has run out of VIP tickets & other perks for big donors.It's a reflection of the scramble by deep-pocketed individuals & corporations to curry favor with his new administration.
Yeah, this. In 2016 Zuck, Bezos et al saw him as vulgar, but since then they realized that his corruption is what makes him the perfect president for them – they can buy him, and for not much money, and he'll be happy to let them destroy our world.
Donors to Trump's inaugural fund:- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M- Amazon: $1M- Meta: $1M- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1MThis is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.
Joel Kaplan, who with Zuckerberg rolled out all these terrible Meta policies, is a not just an extreme partisan, he helped invent the notion that platforms were biased against conservative views, manipulating the algo to boost them and suppress MoJo specifically http://www.motherjones.com/media/2020/1…
Mark Zuckerberg is done with apologizing. Did a quick story on today’s news that Meta was ending its fact checker program, and what it says about Zuckerberg’s personal evolution: http://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01…
Meta is making big changes to hiring practices, sources told me and @mikeisaac.bsky.social – no more teams devoted to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – no diversity preference for working with outside minority owned supplier businesses- no goals for hiring women and minorities
Plenty of lenses through which to view Trump's embrace by both the working class and tech billionaires, but I think one common thread is the Revenge of White Men. Covid, BLM, and gender critiques challenged their status and sense of entitlement, and they want it back. http://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/m…
every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further
The husband of Republican senator Deb Fischer just refused to shake hands or make eye contact with Vice President Harris.The level of class you can expect from MAGA.
I did a bit of newspaper research on the prayer that Mike Johnson falsely ascribed to Thomas Jefferson on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday. The story of how that prayer came to be inaccurately associated with Jefferson and then became a meme is pretty wild.
The prayer that Mike Johnson attributed to Thomas Jefferson did not come from Jefferson. It came from a 1928 Episcopal prayer book.But the idea that *Jefferson* said it; that it is evidence the US was founded as a “Christian nation” … hoo boy where *that* came from is … well not surprising actually
House leader Mike Johnson read a prayer in the House, upon being voted Speaker. Johnson: "It is said" Thomas Jefferson recited this prayer publicly every day.#1 Saying prayers in Congress violates the separation of church and state.#2 Historians say Thomas Jefferson didn't say that prayer.
The North Carolina General Assembly’s GOP supermajority just approved a hugely corrupt power grab, seizing authority from the governor and the courts to prevent any meaningful check on legislative abuses. Authoritarian stuff. A very dark day for democracy in NC. amp.newsobserver.com/news/politic…
Cooper and Stein filed this new motion in an ongoing lawsuit challenging SB 749, a similar law that gave the governor's power to appoint state election board members to the North Carolina Legislature. A state court struck down SB 749 in March for violating the NC Constitution.
One of them was the Post’s owner Jeff Bezos. The cartoonist resigned. A Post editor claimed it was not censorship but about too much similar content. That’s bullshit. I am appalled by how mainstream media and billionaires have caved int o Trump.
Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos
This is highly disconcerting. WaPo editors killed an editorial cartoon that mocked Bezos and other tech oligarchs. Will the Post respond to this? Democracy dies with accommodation. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui…
“Four years ago, dozens of companies denounced the invasion of the U.S. Capitol and pledged to withhold support from those who disputed the 2020 election results. Now, many of those companies are lining up to fund Donald Trump’s inauguration.”From the @wsj.com http://www.wsj.com/business/tru…
Head coach PJ Fleck got an honorary mayo bath after Minnesota won the Duke's Mayo Bowl 🔥Who was pouring the mayonnaise? None other than the game's mascot, Flavor Flav.
The Duke’s Mayo Bowl reminded us why it’s the granddaddy of funky bowls, culminating in Flavor Flav (who had been in the costume all game) dumping mayo on PJ Fleck
Sad! 