Greetings, Dear Reader,

Here we are yet again, and yet again, it’s a parade of totally ignorant tears.

Let’s get into it.

FIRED REPORTERS ARE CRYING AGAIN

The Washington Post fired 30% of its staff yesterday, a total of ~300 reporters and editors.

Let’s address a few things straight away. This analysis is completely shoot-from-the-hip. I don’t really have the time to dig into statistics, traffic reports, or do a comprehensive review of the articles associated with these layoffs.

I will include some stats, but this is hardly going to be an empirical two cents, Dear Reader.

You can take my word as a guy who has followed media closely for 25 years, or you can leave it. I’m also not much into grave dancing. You can gloat and dance if you’d like, I won’t judge, but being laid off sucks, and I don’t wish it on anyone.

One of the first things you can do when one of these mass layoffs occurs at a media company — which happens rather routinely — is check author pages, production and beats.

Did WaPo really need to pay 13 salaries in the “climate change” beat? Was the output of WaPo’s various “race reporters” really putting the business in the, ahem, black? Why on earth is their sports section, which was almost entirely nuked, leading Super Bowl week with a giant cover story on Excel........

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