The Washington Post is expected to announce mass layoffs Wednesday morning, dealing a significant blow to a storied media company and a newsroom that has reached a breaking point.

----Well, this is definitely the killing blow to the Washington Bezos----

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    7 hours ago

    There’s a reason why most journalists are hated by elites but people like bari weiss are adored by then.

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      “Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

      Orwell understood that power and authoritarianism were the issue, not so much the supposed ideology underpinning the powerful.