These Top 10 Heartbreaking Posts About the WaPo Layoffs Will (Almost) Make You Forget the Paper Lost $100 Million per Year

Our nation's esteemed journalists erupted in agony on Wednesday after the Washington Post laid off a third of its staff as part of a "broad strategic reset" intended to make the paper readable as well as profitable. They bombarded social media platforms with heartbreaking laments, lashing out at Post leadership for refusing to embrace the status quo of inexorable decline. That includes the paper's owner—Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—whose gravest sins before this week were ending (pointless) presidential endorsements and proclaiming his support for "personal liberty" and "free markets" like some deranged third-world tyrant.

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