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The long-overdue reckoning for the elite media arrived this week as The Washington Post slashed roughly a third of its newsroom, shuttering whole desks and forcing the comfortable to face real market consequences. For decades the press enjoyed a protected class status — untouchable, sanctimonious, and convinced that outrage would always pay the bills — and now subscribers and advertisers are voting with their wallets. What the Post’s collapse exposes is simple: entitlement has consequences, and taxpayers shouldn’t underwrite a political project masquerading as journalism.
Democrats’ reflexive outrage at the Post owner, Jeff Bezos, reads less like a defense of free press and more like a demand that billionaires fund ideological patronage on command. Rather than accept that a privately run business must make hard financial choices, left-wing politicians are weaponizing populist fury to protect their favored institutions. If Democrats want subsidized journalism, they can propose legislation and funding openly — but crying over market discipline while attacking private ownership is naked hypocrisy.
As the newsroom skeletons clatter out of the door, the predictable public meltdowns from former “reporters” and activist journalists have been unmistakable. Social media blowups and virtue-signaling resignations have replaced constructive debate, proving the industry’s priorities were always performative rather than about serving readers. The truth is Americans are tired of press elites lecturing the country from a pedestal as their own product fails; accountability applies to them as well.
While the elite media panic about their own losses, the country was gripped by a far more serious and human story: the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, from her Arizona home. Law enforcement found blood at the scene, surveillance footage showing an armed, masked intruder, and families across the nation watched as ransom demands reportedly surfaced — a chilling reminder that lawlessness can touch anyone, rich or famous. The national focus should be on bringing Nancy home and restoring public safety, not sanctimonious media posturing or political point-scoring.
At the same time, Democrats are doubling down against commonsense voter ID measures, clinging to theatrical rhetoric even as polls show broad public support for identification at the ballot box. A healthy democracy requires secure, transparent elections; asking voters to show a photo ID is no radical act but a basic safeguard Americans overwhelmingly back. Political leaders who place partisan advantage over election integrity deserve to be called out for cynicism and opportunism.
This moment calls for hard truths and a return to common-sense priorities: defend vulnerable families, secure our elections, and let markets decide which media survive. If conservatives want a free and flourishing press, we should support competition, accountability, and independent ownership — not a protected left-wing cartel exempt from the rules everyone else must live by. America’s hardworking citizens deserve news that serves them, not sermons from a collapsing coastal elite.
