The announcement that the Washington Post is laying off one-third of its staff is big news. It reflects an ongoing reversal of more than half a century of deleterious trends in journalism.

“The troubled Post began implementing large-scale cutbacks on Wednesday, including eliminating its sports department and shrinking the number of journalists it stations overseas,” AP reported while bravely fighting back the tears. “Significantly, our daily story output has substantially fallen in the last five years.” Executive Editor Matt Murray told the paper’s staff.

That indicates gross inefficiency. A spokesperson for the newspaper said the cuts were difficult but part of a necessary “significant restructuring across the company.”

The Washington Post was losing money, and lots of it. One hundred percent predictably, the staff blamed owner Jeff Bezos and … President Donald Trump: “The newspaper has been bleeding subscribers in part due to decisions made by [Bezos]—pulling back from an endorsement of Kamala Harris, a Democrat, during the 2024 presidential election against Trump, a Republican, and directing a more conservative turn on liberal opinion pages,” AP reported.

The notion that all would be hunky-dory down at the WaPo if Bezos had allowed the staff to endorse the absurd Harris and the homunculus Tim Walz and continue doing the very things that were pushing the newspaper far beyond financial straits that would normally result in bankruptcy is pretty funny. Who knew the AP was so gifted at satire?

The layoffs reflect a severe conflict between Washington Post journalists and … journalism. A couple of weeks ago, Washington Post staff and other........

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