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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

I can't imagine how horrible this is for WaPo staff. Bezos has ruined a once great newspaper.

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Violet Hunter's avatar

I hope Mackenzie Scott will add to her good deeds the founding of a newspaper to fill the void left by the now-dessicated husk that remains of our WaPo.

RIP WaPo🥲

Signed,

A former 5th-floor copy aide turned 4th-floor photo researcher

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Jane Kidwell's avatar

I keep thinking someone will do this!

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Violet Hunter's avatar

🙏 She’s already pioneered no-strings philanthropy, so founding a newspaper could be her next frontier!🤠📰

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Heather Dolstra's avatar

I am at a hair salon waiting to get my hair cut and now i am crying in front of the whole staff

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Dale of Green Gables's avatar

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits and

Are melted into air, into thin air:

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,

The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,

The solemn temples, the great globe itself,

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,

Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff

As dreams are made on, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep.

William Shakespeare

From "The Tempest," Act 4 Scene 1

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Sasquatch's avatar

Thank you, Dale, for posting this. It's one of my favorite passages from Shakespeare.

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COL Mustard's avatar

We just cancelled our subscription. It's a shame. I've read The Post since 1986 when I first moved to DC.

I almost cancelled in October when the owner refused to endorse Kamala; again in January when Ann Telnaes left...today was the last straw for us. What a sad day.

Oh, and one of my friends was bullDOGEd today, just to make it better.

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Audrey Eve's avatar

So utterly disillusioning.

Democracy is truly dying in darkness, not just at WaPo.

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COL Mustard's avatar

Unfortunately it's being murdered in broad daylight, just like Voldemort said it would be.

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Sheila's avatar

There was a time that I embarrassedly bragged (but proud) about how liberal the Wash. Post was. Today I was brought to tears. The beginning of the end???

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Jane Kidwell's avatar

Those days, while not gone, are being stamped down by enemies of free speech. There must continue to be resistance.

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Sasquatch's avatar

Does Rachel still have a job?

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mja's avatar

Just dreadful. Are you going to keep Barney & Clyde going? I assume not, at a least not in the Post, as you wouldn’t want it as an attraction to that formerly-great newspaper. I’m cancelling that subscription regardless.

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