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DUKE: Our Readers Would Definitely Hate It If I Got Fired

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05.02.2026

Hey y’all, welcome back to Unfit to Print. 

The Washington Post laid off a third of its staff yesterday and social media is a GOLD MINE right now …

 

OUR READERS WOULD DEFINITELY HATE IT IF I GOT FIRED 

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: I know we’re not supposed to celebrate or gloat when people get fired. 

But sometimes I just can’t help myself. 

Rumblings of a major newsroom shakeup at the Washington Post spread across social media early Wednesday morning. All staff were told to stay home and participate in an 8:30 a.m. Zoom call. 

The writing was on the wall: a bunch of y’all are getting canned. 

Sure enough, one in three employees was let go. 

As Trump once said about the auto industry, it was a “bloodbath.” 

To be clear, I don’t know that all of the cuts were editorially sound. 

Shuttering the sports desk? That’s a bummer. 

But, then again, the sports section also had a full front-page spread about competitive Excel sheet-making the week before the biggest sporting event in America. The author of that piece was laid off. 

And they’ve been effectively lobbying to get the Redskins to change their name for over a decade, and now we have to call them the Commanders and pretend not to cringe when we say it. 

Throwing out a significant portion of the paper’s Ukraine and Middle East coverage? Maybe not wise, unless they were just really........

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