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The elite media’s free ride is over, and they’re howling. This week’s bloodletting at the Washington Post — a purge that cut roughly a third of the workforce and shuttered whole sections — proves what working Americans have long suspected: entitlement and arrogance don’t pay the bills.
The scale of the Post’s retrenchment is brutal and unmistakable: the sports and books desks were closed, international and metro coverage were dramatically reduced, and hundreds of journalists were shown the door — a reorganization that even led to CEO Will Lewis stepping aside days later. This wasn’t an abstract “restructuring”; it was the collapse of the costly prestige model that coastal elites treated as untouchable.
Guess who’s furious? The very Democrats and pundits who expected billionaires to subsidize their one-sided journalism are now attacking Jeff Bezos for running his business like any other owner would. Staff and the Post’s union publicly pleaded for Bezos to rescind the cuts or sell the paper to someone willing to keep the gravy train running, exposing how dependent so-called watchdogs had become on patronage rather than readers.
Meanwhile, the newsroom meltdown played out in real time on social media, where former “reporters” lamented the loss of cushy beats and specialty desks while ignoring the simple truth: audiences left because trust evaporated and priorities skewed toward ideology over service. Podcasts were suspended, foreign bureaus closed, and loyal readers who wanted straight news didn’t see value in paying for preachy content — a marketplace rebuke conservatives have been calling for.
As the media eats itself, a separate national heartbreak gripped the country: Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, was reported abducted from her Tucson home, with family pleas and possible ransom notes making the case tragically public. Law enforcement, including the FBI, has been drawn in and the family’s desperate appeals reminded us that real danger and suffering exist outside the newsroom’s virtue signaling.
On Capitol Hill, Democrats doubled down on opposing commonsense election safeguards, even as polls show overwhelming public support for voter ID and proof-of-citizenship measures. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer publicly blasted the GOP’s SAVE Act as “Jim Crow 2.0,” a hysterical overreach that refuses to acknowledge the polls and the majority of Americans — including many Democrats — who back identification at the polls.
This moment calls for conservatives to stand firm: demand real accountability from the press, defend victims like Nancy Guthrie, and fight for secure elections that earn public trust. Hardworking Americans know the difference between taxpayer-funded virtue signaling and real public service — it’s time the media, and the politicians who excuse them, stopped pretending otherwise.
