Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice

The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the staff that the Jeff Bezos regime had decided “not to send a contingent to the Winter Olympics.” The opening ceremony in Milan is under two weeks away. 

News that the Post intended to no-show an event that it had historically flooded with reporters was partially walked back on Monday, with the paper reportedly planning to send a whopping four reporters to Italy. But that concession was quickly drowned out by reports and rumors that a Apocalyptic round of layoffs is coming. 

The media blog Status wrote that “as many as 300 Post employees,” or more than a third of the entire staff, were about to be RIF’d. Puck’s Dylan Byers tweeted that he’d heard that “hundreds” of employees were expected to be let go and the “sports desk could be shuttered entirely.” At an afternoon meeting on Monday, according to former Postie Paul Farhi, editors told the foreign staff that "half" the newsroom will be let go.