Speaking of Olympic wraps, gold medals to @barrysvrluga, @RickMaese and @Lescarpenter for their coverage, supported by editor @JasonMurray117. What examples of professionalism, pride in the work, service to consumers and finishing a job right, regardless of circumstances
🥹The Post Sports reporters and @JasonMurray117 are the best of the best. What they did these past two weeks in Italy, after watching their work-home gutted, was phenomenal. A testament to who they are as people and journalists. They, and our readers, deserved better.
"It takes years to make good reporters—people who are trained, who love getting the story so much, who love the news so much, that they will wade into the fire, run to the sound of the guns. They are grown only in newsrooms, not at home with laptops. They are taught by older craftsmen and professionals, through stories and lore." @Peggynoonannyc https://t.co/0e29F2FFq5
Will Lewis was never the right choice as Wapo publisher. He had more baggage than a Boeing 747 after phone hacking scandal and no sensibility or knowledge of Washington. Jeff Bezos has finally understood he made a mistake and has to be more involved as owner. So sell or reverse course with new model
@mffisher There's also a full page house ad signed by Matt Murray, touting the Post's continued commitment to coverage that readers rely on, including...sports
You know what the Washington Post sports department *did* do, though? Break stories on: harassment/toxic workplace culture by Washington football team execs, including Dan Snyder; the FBI investigation into Jim Irsay's death; rampant exploitation of the Washington cheerleaders, leading to multiple settlements; Kim Mulkey's abusive treatments of players -- and that's just in the last five years.
In 2016, when Post reporter Jason Rezaian was freed after spending 1.5 years in Iranian prison, Jeff Bezos personally flew him back on his private plane. Bezos used it as a photo op.
Now, he's leaving people he laid off overseas in a lurch.
https://t.co/uuwSmtMFWo
Let me get this playbook straight: sully a great institution, hide from staff, float goofy ways to revive it, then retreat, then gut it, then make the editor eat all the shit in public, slink off to the Super Bowl, get spotted and summarily ousted.
The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.
Thanks to mass layoffs, the Post won’t be covering the NFL or the Super Bowl or even football after this season. So the publisher had to see it for himself?
Former senior managing editor of the Washington Post Cameron Barr for @BulwarkOnline:
"In the mirror, Jeff Bezos will see a man who grievously weakened an American institution dedicated to freedom and democracy at a time when those very ideals were under enormous threat. If ever America needed the scrutiny of power for which the Washington Post is justly famous, it is this moment. If ever the Post needed a new owner, it is now."
https://t.co/fbQxhp0PXf
Jeff Bezos, who could keep the Wash Post a pillar of American democracy with the change dug out from his limousine seats, sets an example of surrender to authoritarianism for every other business person and institution in America.