No thread about the bloodbath at WaPo?

[LuFins Dad]

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-begins-hundreds-of-newsroom-layoffs-as-jeff-bezos-ignores-reporters-pleas-report/

Personally, I don’t really give a damn about their Climate Change reporter pool going from 14 to 2, but they have completely axed local coverage and international coverage. That’s a shame, IMO.

[Horace]

Have to imagine Bezos regrets the purchase. This decision implies the purchase was an economic investment rather than a cultural investment or branding investment, but I guess the real motivation here is that he regrets the branding investment and wants out of the brand.

[Mik]

He’s going to use AI to crawl over the web for stories.