It was recently reported that the Washington Post cut a third of its staff in a large round of layoffs. Conservatives, who have been annoyed for years by the paper’s left-wing bias, took pleasure in this news.
But it turns out that the job cuts were far more extensive than people knew.
The paper actually cut almost 48 percent of their staff. That is huge.
The Washingtonian reported:
Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought
The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and devastating cuts inflicted on its Metro section and foreign bureaus. But the extent of the damage is actually greater than first reported.
News reports about the layoffs, including this one from the New York Times, generally agreed that about one-third of the Post’s newsroom would be eliminated by the layoffs. However, an accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, finds that the paper’s management eliminated closer to half of the journalists it used to employ.
According to guild steward Sarah Kaplan, a Post climate reporter, the paper is dropping between 350 and 375 journalists. With the newsroom’s pre-layoff strength at 790 people, that means between 44 percent and 47.5 percent of the newsroom has been axed…
Previous reports said that nearly 300 union members were among those laid off last week. That figure did not account for dozens more layoffs among Post journalists who aren’t covered by the Guild’s contract, including staffers in its foreign bureaus and editors and managers in Washington.
John Nolte of Breitbart News commented on this:
So it wasn’t just domestic-liars-who-hate-us that got the axe, the axe also fell on foreign-liars-who-hate-us.
The most important thing here is that the corporate media are dying. CNN is dying. The New York Times is basically a lifestyle and puzzle publication now. Rolling Stone, Newsweek, MS NOW, NPR, PBS… They are all losing influence, trust, and subscribers…
The brand will always be around. But that’s not the same. What the Washington Post was — a powerful and influential national newspaper — it is no more. Those days are over, and things will only get worse because if there is anything we have learned about the corporate media, it is that they don’t learn, can’t learn, refuse to learn.
The Washington Post did this to itself. It’s hard to feel any sympathy.
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