Wednesday’s massacre of journalism was felt not only at The Washington Post — where 300 journalists were abruptly laid off — but also across newsrooms nationwide, with profound sadness. Virtually everyone knows about the struggles to keep newspapers afloat, but the WaPo’s firings signaled something deeper: a cynical “corporate slaughter,” as Slate put it, by billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, one of world’s richest men.
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