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More Emotional Fervor Over the Washington Post Layoffs, As the Paper Proves Why It Is Sinking

Brad Slager
Brad Slager  |  Feb 05, 2026
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Legalized Presstitution – AXIOS

  • So your “solution” is to spend more to extend the failed procedures…?

While everyone is weighing in on the demise of the Washington Post following the severe layoffs, Jim VandeHei is here with all of the answers.

His plan: Rope in dark money and use it to hire a bunch of leftist journalists, like Kara Swisher, and the gang at ProPublica.

This…is…glorious to read.

Reporting on the Mirror – WASHINGTON POST

  • You say the thing everyone is demanding of Jeff Bezos, he has been doing?

Many journos, like Peter Baker, who we mentioned yesterday, are filled with indignation that multibillionaire Jeff Bezos is not pouring cash into his losing WaPo venture. Well, it appears that maybe that has not been the problem.

Katherine Boyle is a onetime Post reporter and was at the paper when Bezos took over the reins. She details that contrary to popular gripes, he was dumping large sums into the operations, and look at the results.

Prose & Contradiction – WASHINGTON POST

  • He sounds like a bi-weekend divorce father.

Over at The Wrap, their media reporter Corbin Bolies offered up something of a dichotomy between the men who ran the Post. While casting Bezos as a cold-hearted titan, he illustrates that Donald Graham is a benevolent soul reaching a helping hand out to laid-off workers. Who is Graham, you may ask? He is the man who cares so deeply about the post that he was the one who sold it to Jeff Bezos.

News Avoidance Syndrome – WASHINGTON POST

  • Yes…it is a big mystery how this paper is foundering.

If you would like an example of why the Washington Post is struggling mightily with business, might we suggest credibility could be a factor? We offer as evidence this report on the emerging story of a home in Las Vegas, which has become the focus as a bio-weapon factory was discovered operating on site. Numerous pathogens were said to be found on location.

Making this all the more disturbing is that the location was tipped off when a house cleaner and neighbors fell ill. This home was connected to another in California that had a lab as well, and the culprit, who is in custody, is a Chinese national with known ties to the ruling government.

For reasons that are a mystery, the WaPo report makes zero mention of the Chi-Coms in connection with this story.

Border-line Obsession – THE NEW YORK TIMES

  • Illegals performing illegal activity sure deserve our sympathy.

The paper was detailing the plight of a California couple in a lengthy report on how they are self-deporting. It is a sympathetic and emotional detail of their travails and what they are leaving behind. It takes quite a while to get around to why it is they felt the need to go back to their home country, and The Times makes it sound like it is trivial detail: 

For years, the couple said, Enrique had been using another person’s identity — a common but illegal way for undocumented immigrants to get the paperwork they need to work in the country. They said that not long after arriving in the United States, a friend had helped Enrique use the identity of a Honduran who had work authorization. Last year, the Trump administration moved to end that type of work authorization, making it harder for Enrique to keep using that identity.

So they are illegals, who were using stolen identities to work illegally. Well, at least give The Times some credit for eventually getting around to the valid points of the story, even if it took them a few dozen paragraphs to get around to the specifics.

Legalized Press-titution – THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

  • What is the English word for “tonterias”?

For this Sunday’s Super Bowl, there are mounting conversations about performer Bad Bunny and what he will do in his halftime show. He has been outspoken about his activism that will be on display, and has promised he will wear a dress because…that is edgy?

When he was previously announced as the main act, he had declared that he would be singing primarily in Spanish and that people would need to learn the words.

The WSJ team is here to tell us that people have actually done this. Their proof is based on — what else — select TikTok videos of excited accounts. This strikes us as dubious sourcing, but go and enjoy the fiesta.