http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/01/06/wapo-is-collapsing-n2391442
Well, isn't this something? The Washington Post -- you know, 'democracy dies in darkness' and all that -- is not doing well. In fact, it's on the brink of collapse.
RedState (@RedState) ~ The Washington Post Is in Full-Scale Collapse
http://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/01/05/the-washington-post-is-in-big-trouble-n2168357
From RedState:
Is The Washington Post in full-scale collapse? A recent look at the numbers provides a fairly convincing answer to that question.
According to the report, not only is the Post losing $100 million a year, but it lost over half of its online engagement by the end of 2023. The signs were already there by mid-year, and the worst has come to pass.
Having a billionaire sugar daddy has helped mask some of the issues plaguing the Post, but the tide can only be held back so long. To lose over 50 percent of its online viewership is catastrophic for an outlet with such high overhead costs. Subscriber numbers have also nosedived throughout the Biden administration.
Ouch.
It's bad.
The **shi**t** Post-Killing Democracy In Darkness (@dying_democracy) ~ We're going to fire all of our writers and replace them with AI.
AI writes better articles, performs its own grammar and spelling checks, and doesn't eat hard boiled eggs for breakfast then spend the afternoon crop-dusting the bullpen.
Sounds like a plan.
Horrors Greeley’s Airtight Garage (@HorrorsGreeley) ~ I won’t be happy until it’s a free city weekly with dicey ads in the back pages.
The WaPo's new best source of income ...
It's heading that way, it seems.
Dandiego (@DandiegoNY) ~ Democracy may die in darkness, but WAPO lies in the light. We've seen their lies, that's why they die.
And that's why they're dying: we all see the bias and the lies.
Ed Morrissey (@EdMorrissey) ~ There are a lot of critics of @elonmusk who keep positing that Twitter/X is collapsing, but engagement is *up* here. There isn't much commentary on Bezos' destruction of WaPo. I wonder why.*
(*- No, I don't.)
No, we don't wonder either.
Me (@Me3535429145181) ~ Yay!!! I hope everyone involved has a slightly less than comfortable rest of their lives and nobody ever lets them near a keyboard again.
They'll land in other media outlets, we're sure.
The Goat (@Pebo4Real) ~
It's a shame how far the media has fallen.
JimAaron (@ArOkTxNm1) ~ The Washington Post Is in Full-Scale Collapse – far-left activists are more than happy to run a publication into the ground pursuing their political wants. The culture at the Post is so toxic and entitled at this point that it would take a top-down cleaning out of every level of the outlet's operation to make a dent.
The Left will collapse any institution they get their hands on to advance their political agenda. Look at Harvard and other colleges, for example. They're like locusts.
A serious, hard news media outlet could succeed these days if it presented news factually and without bias.
That's all it takes.
Oregon’s COVID Disaster (@OregonCovid) ~ As to the reasons behind this precipitous fall, I think they are fairly obvious. Nothing the Post produces is worthwhile. Their columnists are boring parrots who all say the same thing, levying the same boring attacks they were levying nearly a decade ago. Even a died-in-the-wool liberal can only take so many @JRubinBlogger columns claiming the end is nigh for the nation because Republicans get to vote.
All of this. All of it.
Sally Rucker (@sally_rucker) ~ Go woke, go broke.
Short, sweet, and to the point.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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