OK, my alliterative synonym abilities failed me with the last one. But you get the idea. It seems even leftwing billionaires get tired of losing $100 million a year. The Washington Post is hemorrhaging readers, and a new CEO has come in to read woke employees the riot act.
Megyn Kelly: The Washington Post is in a slippery downfall, probably to its end. It’s hemorrhaging.
Dave Rubin: Well deserved.
MK: It’s disgusting, isn’t it! It’s worse than The New York Times!
DR: Well, we’d have to really think that one through. I mean, The New York Times is unbelievably horrible.
MK: But still readable yeah. You read it, and you see it’s biased, and you know you’re getting misled. The Washington Post has turned into Slate.
MK: I mean it’s disgusting now, and it has been this way for a couple of years. So you”ll be shocked, shocked to learn they’re hemorrhaging readers. They’re leaving in droves. And it’s not like they had a huge Republican base to begin with. But you know, even the moderate readers seem have said you’re too much for me.
MK: The New York Times reported in July of 2023 that The Washington Post was on pace to lose about $100 million last year.
MK: Then in October of this past fall, Washington Post offered buyouts to cut staff by almost 250, 240 employees.
MK: They cannot increase their number of paying customers, since the 2020 election they peaked at three million subscribers back then. They’re now down by half a million and counting. It’s just going down and down and down.
MK: There was a meeting on [last] Monday where the publisher Will Lewis and the new interim executive editor Matt Murray met with staff. And they they got rid of Sally Busby, who had led the paper for the past couple years, and made a shocking announcement.
MK: Guess who’s coming in to lead the paper? Count them, not one, not two, not three, four white men!
DR: Oh God! During Pride Month?
MK: They’re white, and they’re men! And one of them, jeez, was the leader of the Wall Street Journal prior to this.
DR: I think my analogy of a dinosaur in the tarpits is pretty on point. These things they have grown so large, they’ve been so negligent, to what their job is: Of doing the news and doing it honestly.
DR: You and I are not wizards. How is it that we’ve largely gotten the big things right over the years, or didn’t fall for all of the hoaxes?
DR: How is it that I didn’t fall for all of the covid stuff? How is it that I didn’t fall for Donald Trump very fine people on both sides? How is it that I didn’t think Brett Kavanagh was a serial rapist, or that the Covington kids were racist or that Jussie Smollett was lynched? Why is it that you and I didn’t fall for all those?
DR: The media lies about everything, and then once you see it, you’ve peered behind the curtain, then just know it. And what’s happening is more and more people are seeing it, so their own readers are finally, like, “My God, this is not a newspaper.”
MK: White men! My God, that’s how desperate they are! And of course they’re having a revolt right at the The Washington Post. Staffers are outraged.
MK: The reaction by one reporter at the meeting to finding out four white guys we going to be leading the Post now was everyone was shocked.
MK: Later in the meeting, another reporter asked Lewis whether any women or people of color were interviewed and seriously considered for these positions, a question that prompted applause! “Yeah, there’s got to be a more qualified female or person of color. Look at these guys! So pale and so penisy!”
MK: “Look, we are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore. So I’ve had to take decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path, sourcing talent that I have worked with that are the best of the best.”
Imagine picking people based on ability and not the color of their skin. The outrage!
As online commentators noted, we’ll know the Washington Post is really serious about cleaning house when it fires Taylor Lorentz…
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“[The Washington Post] cannot increase their number of paying customers, since the 2020 election they peaked at three million subscribers back then. They’re now down by half a million and counting. It’s just going down and down and down.”
News readership has declined among all age groups in recent years but when a newspaper loses 1 in 6 readers from its subscriber base, they enter Bud Light territory. $100 million in losses serves to illustrate that Jeff Bezos has misread the tea leaves. His future as a media mogul would seem to be an open question.
Is it worthwhile to hemorrhage red ink for the foreseeable future in order to hold your place in the queue with the hope that readership declines will bottom out or do you cut your losses while you are still solvent?
Forty-odd years ago, I was the newspaper’s dream customer; I regularly bought every major daily wherever I was living, and sought out the major weekend editions from around the world in the local newsstands and libraries. I probably read every one of the damn things from cover to cover that I could get my hands on, as well as usually purchasing Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report as well.
Haven’t done that in years, and not because I don’t read anymore, either. The quality of the material has gone down to such an extent that it’s not even funny; even the AP and other news services can’t get their facts straight.
Any more, when I go to look at the major news sites on the Internet, what I’m doing is looking for pointers to the source material; past the initial reports of fact, basically “Such-and-such has happened…” major legacy news media sources are utterly f*cking useless. The bias is so bad that when coupled with the incredible ignorance on display by the idiots writing and editing the “news” that you can’t even begin to take it seriously. When the body of the article contradicts the lede paragraph and the headline…? C’mon, now.
The news has always been shiite, but it’s gotten exponentially worse in the last fifteen-twenty years. It’s like they’re not even trying, any more.
I can remember when reading the local so-called “conservative” paper that you’d find a different slant and wording in the stuff they took off the wire than what would be in the local liberal rag. But, that’d be about it… Minute differences in tone and slant, with the interpretations being made to support the politics of the news outlet. Now? It’s a f*cking monoculture cubed; there’s not even an attempt to frame things from anything other than hard-core leftist belief systems.
It’s also not so much what they cover and how, as what they all fail to cover; the lies are predominantly lies of omission, not commission. Although, they’ve been getting a lot bolder about those, as well.
Case in point: You know all about Hunter Biden. What you don’t know about are the other scions of the Congressional aristocracy, on both sides of the aisle, who were also supping at the Ukrainian foreign aid table. Anyone know that one of the partner’s in Burisma was related to John Kerry, or about any of the varied and sundry Republicans involved?
How about the Panama Papers, and how they tie in with Epstein’s little operation, or all the reporters who’ve “mysteriously” died investigating or writing about all the connections?
Never hear about those, just the ones who’re of the right political background… And, who can’t/won’t write anything bad about the usual suspects like the Obamas or the Clintons.
We’ll know the WaPo is really serious about cleaning house when Elon buys it. For a dollar-fifty.
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“OK, my alliterative synonym abilities failed me with the last one.”
Not at all! Just say it in an Elmer Fudd voice (“kwazy wabbit!) and it flows perfectly.
Elon won’t for $1.5 mill or even $1.50 if that’s what buck-fifty meant. He’s been burned by Bird Doo-doo and doesn’t need more tax losses!
“DR: You and I are not wizards. How is it that we’ve largely gotten the big things right over the years, or didn’t fall for all of the hoaxes?”
The MSM didn’t “fall for all of the hoaxes”.
They perpetrated them.
FJB
TRUMP2024!
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The lefty readers believed all the hoaxes because they start from a position of extreme hate. Krauthammer was absolutely spot on in 2002 when he explained that liberals really do believe their opponents are evil.
They hate. They hate deeply, obsessively and irrationally. When they start from a belief that others are evil, it’s easy to believe any of the parade of horribles. Slander works.