A delightful story to start your Sunday

The Washington Post is circling the drain: "Washington Post to Merge Metro Coverage Into Sports and Style Sections - The print edition will publish its final stand-alone Metro section on Sunday, as Post average circulation drops below 100,000 for the first time in more than 55 years."

The changes come as Post readership is declining at an alarming rate, even in an era where all newspapers are struggling to attract readers.

According to data provided to City Paper by the Alliance for Audited Media, the Post’s paid average daily circulation is now down to just 97,000, with roughly 160,000 on Sundays. That’s a fraction of the 250,000 average daily circulation five years ago, when the Post was one of the largest newspapers in the country by circulation.

I don't mean to cheer on a failing business - people's jobs are on the line here - but the mainstream media has become a monolithic echo chamber hostile to heretical ideas to the right of Bernie Sanders.  They're in a hole and they just keep on digging.

Flashback to a year ago: "WaPo CEO brutally tells employees: We're losing money because no one is reading your stories." 

Nothing at all was learned.