The kindest thing that could b said about Jeff Bezos slashing the slashing the staff by over a third – that’s over 300 jobs—with more to come, is that this is a dilettante retailer whose wealth is estimated this year at $230–$266 billion who got bored with playing media tycoon and decided to spend more time with his wife for a while.

The stated reason for the evisceration of one of the country’s storied daily papers– the one that brought down Richard Nixon in its heyday – was that it lost $100 million in 2024 and is continuing to hemorrhage even more readers, or what the company refers to more generically as........

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