The Washington Post just executed over 300 of its own employees in a single brutal morning, and the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Staff were told to stay home Wednesday, log into a Zoom webinar at 8:30 AM Eastern, and discover their careers were finished. No ceremony. No dignity. No goodbyes in the hallway. Just a screen, a corporate script, and the deafening silence of a legacy media empire in freefall.
The paper that sanctimoniously branded itself with "Democracy Dies in Darkness" is now dying in broad daylight—on a webinar nobody wanted to attend.
The Numbers Don't Lie
The carnage is staggering. Over $100 million in annual losses. The entire sports desk? Eliminated. International bureaus? Gutted. Local coverage? Slashed to the bone.
When one of the richest men on the planet—Jeff Bezos himself—cannot keep a newspaper profitable, that tells you everything you need to know. The product is the problem.
Let's be crystal clear about what happened here. Bezos didn't buy the Washington Post in 2013 to cover box scores or high school football. He bought it for one reason: political influence inside the Beltway. He wanted a weapon, and for years, he got one.
Activism Over Journalism
But the newsroom made a fatal choice. They chose activism over journalism. They pushed every anti-Trump narrative they could manufacture—Russian collusion hoaxes, suppressing Hunter Biden's laptop, spinning conspiracy theories as "democracy-saving" journalism.
And the American people walked away.
Subscriptions cratered after Democrats threw a public tantrum over recent editorial decisions. The business model of manufactured consent met the free market of ideas—and lost badly.
Three hundred pink slips at the Washington Post isn't a restructuring. It's an unconditional surrender.
The New Media Revolution
Meanwhile, as the Post hemorrhages talent and money, X has become the number one news source in over 140 countries. Independent outlets and citizen journalists have been building the future of media while legacy outlets were still busy lying to your face.
Next News Network has been pioneering independent journalism since 2012—long before the corporate press admitted they were losing the war for attention. We saw this collapse coming years ago.
The gatekeepers spent years telling Americans what to think. They buried stories that hurt Democrats. They amplified hoaxes that damaged President Trump. They colluded with Big Tech to silence dissent.
Now those same outlets are handing out pink slips on Zoom calls and wondering what went wrong.
Victory for Truth
Patriots, let this sink in: every single layoff at a mainstream media outlet is a victory for Americans who refused to swallow the lies. Every shuttered bureau is proof that the people have rejected the propaganda.
The mainstream media monopoly on truth is dead and buried. The revolution will not be televised—because we don't need their permission anymore.
Jeff Bezos can afford to lose $100 million a year indefinitely. But even infinite money can't buy credibility once you've destroyed it. The Washington Post didn't die because of the internet or changing media habits. It died because it lied, and Americans remembered.
The information revolution is here, folks. And we're winning.