It’s about time someone outside the conservative eco-sphere admitted the obvious about the insufferable narcissists that plague The Washington Post newsroom. But no one could have expected the admission to come from the newspaper’s owner.
Post owner Jeff Bezos apparently told then-President-elect Donald Trump during dinner in December 2024 that his bailout of the failing newspaper was his worst investment, according to a book excerpt by New York Times writers Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman exclusively obtained by the New York Post.
“The people there are terrible,” Bezos said. “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.” Ouch. Journalists think they don't have to care about the business. Their bias in organized in the public interest.
What makes this even more humiliating for The Post is that it would go on to lose over $100 million in 2025, effectively justifying Bezos’s order for mass layoffs in February 2026. These layoffs amounted to “eliminating roughly a third of [The Post’s] workforce, including all staff photographers and the sports section,” the New York Post noted.
This new damning context definitively puts a new light on Bezos’s internet-shattering directives to The Post leadership that his newspaper not issue an endorsement of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2024 and the opinion page be reengineered to promote free market capitalism. As it turns out, continuously peppering readers with leftist agitprop like it’s a bad habit isn’t a sustainable business model for a newspaper that purportedly thrives off credibility, and Bezos clearly understood this from a corporate perspective.
Now, the poor lefty journos at The Post are having to admit that nutty wealth tax proposals are actually pretty terrible, that the health insurance monstrosity known as Obamacare was “never actually affordable,” and that the federal government had grown “too big” and needed downsizing.
We at MRC Business have long known that The Post is a cesspool of wacky, left-wing tripe. But it is pure comedy to see the owner of the whole kit-and-kaboodle realize it too.
