The Washington Post is melting down and the reason might surprise you.
Actually, no it won’t. Just kidding. The Washington Post is melting down because it leaned hard into the Year Zero cultural revolution that’s completely transformed almost every elite institution in the past several years and the newspaper is now bleeding money.
People are no longer buying what they’re selling.
What’s happening at the Post is a microcosm of a much larger and more significant phenomenon. More on that later.
First, let’s review what’s happened at the Post this week.
Publisher and CEO William Lewis announced Sunday that the newspaper would remove Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, hired in 2021 from The Associated Press.
Buzbee is being replaced by former Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray, who will remain in an interim capacity through the 2024…
