Washington Post: there's the door

Jonathan Turley: "Post Editor to Staff: Get on Board or Get Out."

In other words, please leave now.

In some ways, Bezos and Lewis have faced the same challenge as executives at other companies, from Facebook to X, in changing a culture. You cannot do it with a staff created for an entirely different purpose. The Post has spent years advancing advocacy journalism over objectivity, promulgating false claims, and feeding the echo chamber on the left.

One of the reasons that X was able to make such a rapid turnaround is that Musk got rid of much of the staff. Facebook has also been pushing for massive staff reductions and changes. The problem at the Post is not the ship, it is the crew.

Many of us are rooting for Lewis in seeking to right this ship. We need the Washington Post back as a leading newspaper committed to traditional journalism.

In my opinion, it all went south for the Washington Post when they adopted their smug slogan of "Democracy dies in Darkness" and planted their flag on the anti-Trump Left.  Readers saw that the paper was not fair and objective and reacted accordingly.