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For years the elite media treated themselves like an untouchable class, sanctified and subsidized by an indulgent culture that rewarded outrage over accountability. That free ride is finally ending as The Washington Post embarked on one of the biggest newsroom shakeups in decades — and the howls from the Fourth Estate are as revealing as the cuts themselves.
The Post’s decision to slash roughly a third of its workforce didn’t happen in secret: entire desks were dismantled, the flagship daily podcast was suspended, and foreign and local coverage were dramatically pared back in the name of a “strategic reset.” Those are not small editorial choices; they are the death rattle of a paper that forgot it serves paying customers, not woke vanity projects.
Democrats rushed to slam Jeff Bezos for making the sensible business decision to stop bleeding money on an outlet that lost its way, proving once again that their real argument is not about journalism but about control. Senators and left-wing activists who previously cheered the Post’s ideological tilt now feign outrage that the owner won’t bankroll permanent patronage for their preferred narratives.
Meanwhile, insiders and former reporters melted down online as climate and race desks were gutted — a spectacle of entitlement more than grief for public service. The axe fell on teams created during the era of activism-driven journalism, and the reaction shows how many in the media saw their careers as a moral right rather than a job that must earn readers.
As the media wrings its hands, the country was gripped by a real human tragedy: the reported abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s 84-year-old mother, with surveillance footage, blood evidence at the scene, and investigators treating it as a possible ransom case. Families hurt by violent crime deserve our sympathy and the full force of law enforcement — and it’s a reminder that the city-room melodramas pale next to genuine danger and suffering.
On Capitol Hill the left doubled down against commonsense voter ID reforms even as Pew and other polls show overwhelming public support for photo identification at the ballot box. Democrats’ reflexive opposition to basic election integrity measures like the SAVE Act, and the frantic rhetoric comparing them to Jim Crow, underscores that their priority is political advantage, not the will of ordinary Americans.
Patriots who pay attention should call this what it is: a reckoning. Stop subsidizing an elite media class that substitutes moral preening for reporting, demand that newsrooms earn their keep, back sensible election safeguards that restore confidence, and pray for the Guthrie family as law enforcement chases answers. The choice facing the country is clear — either we defend institutions that serve the people, or we let hollowed-out elites keep scripting the national narrative from their safe, insulated towers.
