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2024-06-22 -Great Cultural Revolution
Washington Post staffers fume at owner Jeff Bezos as UK Telegraph's Robert Winnett declines top editor role
[NYPOST] Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos faces growing unrest from the newspaper’s staffers — and the latest casualty is a British editor who had been slated to become their next boss.

Robert Winnett, the deputy editor of the UK broadsheet Telegraph, will not be taking the helm of the Washington Post, the paper said on Friday. That’s after former Washington Post editor Sally Buzbee abruptly was defenestrated stepped down earlier this month after just three years at the paper.

Washington Post Chief Executive William Lewis confirmed the change in a note to staff, adding that the paper will launch a formal search for a new editor.

"It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of Editor at The Washington Post," Lewis wrote. "Rob has my greatest respect and is an incredibly talented editor and journalist."

A CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
 report on Friday indicated that Washington Post staffers are growing impatient with Bezos’s hands-off leadership style — particularly amid the uproar over his decision to entrust the paper to Lewis.
They oughtta pick a new owner, by gum.
Bezos on Tuesday sent a terse, 138-word memo to top editors at The Washington Post in which he expressed his "full commitment on maintaining the quality, ethics and standards we all believe in."
Posted by Fred 2024-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 When you have Taylor Lorenz as a top "Journalist", your credibility's already gone
Posted by Frank G 2024-06-22 01:32||   2024-06-22 01:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Buffett-owned agency warns of ‘Trump recession’
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-22 02:37||   2024-06-22 02:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Why would you take the job of running a hostile kindergarten? At this point, Bezos' best choice is to turn out the lights.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-22 07:53||   2024-06-22 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Inmates running the asylum. Will Bezos let them pick some DEI box checker who will be no help at all turning around the current financial train wreck or will he let a bunch of the whiners resign enmass?
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-22 08:11||   2024-06-22 08:11|| Front Page Top

#5 his "full commitment on maintaining the quality, ethics and standards we all believe in."

Mordor Gazette decides to stay rudder amidships.
Posted by Super Hose 2024-06-22 08:27||   2024-06-22 08:27|| Front Page Top

#6 The good news is that DEI hires are incompetent, and can't do their jobs.
Posted by Pearl Hapsburg1419 2024-06-22 08:33||   2024-06-22 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Opens history book.

The part when a sympathetic oligarch plays along with mommy issue revolutionaries ultimately to be left alone and is turned on happens here, and here, and here, and here,.....
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-22 10:24||   2024-06-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Bezos should put together a buyout package and give the 'workers' 4 months to get the financing together.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-22 11:02||   2024-06-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#9 Pull an OCF and file chapter 11.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-22 11:20||   2024-06-22 11:20|| Front Page Top

#10 OCF didn't declare bankruptcy. The owner just shut it down cold.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-22 11:24||   2024-06-22 11:24|| Front Page Top

#11 If it wasn't for Bezos, who would pay to keep their little rag going?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-06-22 12:05||   2024-06-22 12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Yeah we know. Straight shut down, protect the organization and 'reorganize' the personnel, then come out with a new employee base or just dump it.

There is no accommodating the rot at this point. Other DEI organizations, here is your future.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-22 13:02||   2024-06-22 13:02|| Front Page Top

#13 WaPo is a gummint organ. Soon it will be taxpayer supported unless the swamp actually does get drained.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-22 13:11||   2024-06-22 13:11|| Front Page Top

#14 Absolutely, its a whole another critter than a coffee shop operation.

OCF can sell at their discretion as a turn-key or just good property location, which after studying that case I think is the situation. Fancy Lad neighborhood with minimal walking homeless, at least until corporate comes in and opens the bathrooms and menu out to the walking homeless.

The point of owning a newspaper is to push the owner's agenda couched in entertainment, and maybe make some money on advertising. Think plot point in Count of Monte Cristo.

Here, the WaPo employees staged a successful mutiny and now control the ship. What is to stop them from running articles against Bezo/Owner will from now running editorials about their view of the Gazoos and Bezo investments in Israeli projects?

Outside of purging just to take back control of the ship, if WaPo is to be dumped nobody will buy, even if the current staff aligns with a prospective buyer's views, the employees have shown to be insubordinate and therefore a liability.

I am not a fan of WaPo in any means, just trying to put on paper the difficulty of overcoming this current atmosphere and Faust getting out of the contract.

IMHO, I don't think Bezos, inc. has not the fortitude, but even the will to make that change, demonstrated by this squish move. It will be interesting to see if other Bezos, inc. associates pick up on this now that they have shown their....quality.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-22 14:29||   2024-06-22 14:29|| Front Page Top

#15 I don't think Bezos is particularly hands on with WaPo and even hemorrhaging money it's a financial nuisance to him.

We are all better off if he invests his money and effort in Blue Origin as the US needs more than one commercial heavy lift rocket company and it looks less and less likely that company will be ULA.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-22 14:46||   2024-06-22 14:46|| Front Page Top

#16 IMHO, News Papers, News Media, is a loss leader, but that does no good if not promoting the other profit leaders.

A modern parable / copybook heading:

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-22 15:03||   2024-06-22 15:03|| Front Page Top

#17 Soon, a generation will arrive with zero attention span and no remote hope of disposable income. That will spell the end of digital media and the last leg propping up what's left of legacy media will be gone.
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-22 15:08||   2024-06-22 15:08|| Front Page Top

#18 Not to mention the millions of illegally imported replacements who simply cannot read above a 3rd grade level, if at all. Tough to sell insightful, informed journalism to those.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-06-22 16:02||   2024-06-22 16:02|| Front Page Top

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