Analysis of the Washington Post layoffs, media credibility, and shifts in political and medical narratives in 2026.
The tab police, they live inside my head .
NBC’s Tom Llamas: „After our interview, off-camera, the President called Savannah Guthrie and spoke to her — offering words of support for her and her family as they search for their mother.“ ❤️ pic.twitter.com/8lA54gJ0qL— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) February 4, 2026
Ed: I’m glad to see this. I’ve been praying for Nancy Guthrie and her family for her safe return and health, and I hope everyone joins me in that effort.
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Daily Wire: The cut nearly one-third of its workforce on Wednesday, terminating some 300 employees and axing several editorial sections entirely. .
“Over the last decade at the : — A number of major corrections and journalistic scandals. —Major intra-newsroom drama with reporters threatening to sue the paper. — Declining circulation and losing lots of money. Stop acting like the layoffs are shocking,” Mark Hemingway posted.
Clay Travis added, “The made its business contingent on far left wing subscribers who hated Trump & when Bezos became embarrassed by the far left wing product that created, he tried to fix it by moving closer to the center. But the Post’s subscribers revolted, crushing the business.”
Ed: The Protection Racket Media has the same problem as late-night TV. They shredded their credibility in an effort to curate their audiences to the Antifa bubble. Gallup has been sending up warning flares for years on the collapsing credibility of media organizations, and Will Lewis and Jeff Bezos warned Post staffers starting in June 2024 that the newspaper was no longer sustainable. It’s terrible to see people lose their jobs, but the American media industry is dying from willful and slow suicide.
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The fallacy here is that the documentary isn’t part of WaPo, which is its own going concern. It loses money every year. Bezos has owned the paper for over 12 years. Just because not every single use of his personal fortune is profitable doesn’t mean he has to tolerate… https://t.co/KouqGEnYU4— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) February 4, 2026
… tolerate organizational losses perennially into the future.
Ed: Lewis warned the staff in June 2024 that Bezos would not subsidize $77 million in annual losses for long. CBS is about to stop tolerating $40 million in losses for its Late Show. Same problem, same reasons.
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Ace of Spades HQ: Another factor is that the specific politics being pushed by the ’s #Resistance lefties. It’s not that #Resistance leftist politics don’t have a market. They do. One third of the country are, alas, woke communist psychopathic nihilists. You should be able to sell a paper appealing to this lunatic cohort.
The trouble is, every media outlet, pretty much, panders to this same lunatic cohort. They’re all reading from the same depraved Marxist prayer book.
Plus, what #Resistance leftists are selling is not at all a difficult product to produce. They’ve shifted from reporting on news, which does take some time and effort, and which is something people will pay for, to just ranting endlessly that Bad Orange Man Is Getting More Orange and More Bad and shrieking the same six propaganda slogans forever.
You don’t need an organization that spends $300 million on salaries and rent to do this. Any deranged leftwing imbecile with a $500 camera can do this from their basement. And they’re almost all doing it — so what does any lefty need the lefty press for?
Ed: Exactly.
