After an increasingly acrimonious relationship, I divorced
the Washington Post yesterday, after 40+ years. (Due to previous financial
commitments, the final separation will not take place until March 15.)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
https://montgomeryperspective.com/2026/02/05/democracy-dies-in-darkness-at-the-washington-post/
There was, of course, Bezos squashing the already-written 2024
Presidential election endorsement. The reduction in the number of op-ed columns,
and the departure of most of my favorite opinion columnists. The increasingly
snarky tone of the Editorial Board, with its unhealthy fixation on Zohran
Mamdani and its apparent conclusion that the biggest threat to the U.S. is “progressives”
and “socialists”, not Trump and MAGA.
While yesterday’s layoffs of virtually everyone in the Sports
department hit me the hardest personally, the cuts to the Metro and International
staffs were also devastating, none more so than the axing of Lizzie Johnson in
the middle of her courageous stint in Ukraine.
