I am a day late with this, so skip it if you have now viewed the video clip of Washington Post staffers protesting layoffs.
The Washington Post’s all-arms assembly turned chaotic Wednesday immediately after the newspaper’s publisher declared looming layoffs – and then still left the space as worried staff shouted questions.
The Jeff Bezos-owned broadsheet will carry out a round of layoffs throughout the initially quarter of 2023, publisher Fred Ryan introduced throughout what was supposed to be an hour-extended meeting.
Ryan blamed the cuts on worsening financial disorders, in accordance to an account published on the newspaper’s website.
Video clip taken from within the inner assembly and shared by Washington Article national correspondent Annie Gowen confirmed despondent staff peppering Ryan with concerns about the task cuts to no avail.
“We’re not heading to turn the city corridor into a grievance session,” Ryan declared, talking above a crowd of frustrated employees.
Heh. It couldn’t transpire to a a lot more deserving bunch of leftists. And it is enjoyable when the bosses of left-wing establishments are pressured by fiscal realities to say what they genuinely believe about labor. In this article is the online video:
The underlying challenge is that there is no feasible route to profitability for practically all American newspapers. It is their individual fault, considering that at minimum 50 percent the nation would be glad to see them go broke. But previous-fashioned individuals like me would like we ended up in an setting where by a very good newspaper–not one particular like the Washington Post–could really make dollars and remain in business.
UPDATE: A postscript–notice how several WaPo employees are carrying masks in the office. Unhappy! Carrying a mask is its have punishment. The relaxation of the planet has moved on, but leftists are caught in some kind of time warp.