You’re not entitled to other people’s money. That’s the lesson that over 300 former Washington Post employees learned this week as the paper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos slashed jobs after plummeting pageviews and subscriptions.
Bezos bought the paper in 2013 for about $250 million.
Massive bloodbath in Washington Post. Over 300+ journalists, staff laid off.
— Aditya Raj Kaul (@AdityaRajKaul) February 4, 2026
Instead of finding another job, many are protesting their former employer, according to videos posted on social media.
Fired Post reporters rally outside the newspapers offices. pic.twitter.com/OdboQi2jpf
— Paul Wagner (@paulcwagner) February 5, 2026
🚨 NOW: A bunch of laid-off leftists from the Washington Post are outside HQ whining because they’re no longer paid to write about “racial inequality in transgenderism”
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 5, 2026
“Who makes the Post?! WE DO!”
Not anymore. You’ll now be making Frosties at Wendy’s👋🏻 pic.twitter.com/VEXAscvU5O
The paper laid off 13 climate reporters, its sports team, and many overseas reporters as well.
13 climate change reporters. lol.
— Coastal Country Club (@ccmembersonly) February 5, 2026
This was adult daycare for leftists. https://t.co/KYz0nzjbt6
WaPo was paying 13 people to write occasional fear slop about melting glaciers, now they're outraged an actual businessman no longer wants to fund their self-indulgent hobbies https://t.co/mGYpaEcQW4
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 5, 2026
Instead of thanking Bezos for subsidizing a failing paper for over a decade, Democrats apparently feel entitled to his money.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, criticized the billionaire's spending choices.
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
— Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 5, 2026
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Katherine Boyle, a partner at the venture capital firm Andreeson Horowitz and a former Washington Post employee, said that the old paper died decades ago.
“There are solid media companies being built for the future and the Post can become one of them. But the old Post died many decades ago. Pretending Bezos killed it isn’t true.”
I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the…
— Katherine Boyle (@KTmBoyle) February 5, 2026
Democrats and many Washington Post employees felt entitled to Bezos' money. They shouldn’t.
Ah, yes. Normal people, who, to a man, are devastated that Jeff Bezos will not agree to indefinitely lose hundreds of millions of dollars underwriting a product that people clearly don’t like. https://t.co/nzarIfRt9G
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) February 4, 2026
Jeff Bezos was expected to lose $100 million a year on the Washington Post, forever, because he could afford to. This is the worldview of the left.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) February 4, 2026
Jeff Bezos lost hundreds of millions of dollars propping up the Washington Post and it only made the left hate him more. There's a lesson for others in there.
— Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 (@aaron_renn) February 4, 2026