Over the past 3 years, The Washington Post has lost half its audience (!!!!), and last year alone the so-called “newspaper” lost $77 million.
An observer might look at those facts and conclude that, perhaps, unless things change the publication will cease to be a going concern. You would think that the reporters, needing their paychecks and with few places to land in a contracting media environment, would want to help keep the place alive.
You would be wrong. Not because they don’t care or even that they are stupid. It’s that they are as blind to reality when thinking about their own jobs and futures as they are about how the rest of the world works. They have other concerns, and reality doesn’t interest them.
I’d argue the worst sign for WaPo is that they’ve lost *half* their audience since 2020 and *$77 million* last year…. and the fact that they have someone trying to get…
