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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

As Scott Ott asks, ’How many times are we gonna have to rescue this dame?’ After yet another bailout attempt, The Washington Post has announced a leaner, more accurate version of itself is in the works. But the bigger question isn’t about the Post so much as it is about the entire idea of a ‘newspaper.’ Have they already gone the way of the Dry Goods Store without even realizing it?

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0:00.0

How many times are we going to have to rescue this dame?

0:03.3

Hi, I'm Scott I with Bill Whittle and Stephen Green,

0:05.9

and this episode of Right Angles brought to you by the members at Bill Whittle.com.

0:10.2

I am recording from somewhere south of the equator,

0:12.9

so the greatest miracle of all would be to get through this entire episode

0:16.6

in one contiguous chunk, or at all, for that matter.

0:23.1

In any case, gentlemen, it turns out that the staff,

0:26.8

the once great Washington Post, are in panic mode again

0:31.0

because the theory is that hundreds more staffers,

0:35.3

especially from the newsroom, are going to be let go because I know this

0:40.1

will come as a shock to you, but the Washington Post doesn't make a profit. Now, the reason why

0:47.3

that should really come as a shock to you, Stephen Green, is because it's being run by one of the most

0:51.8

successful business people of our era right now.

0:55.5

The late, great, I'm sorry, he's still alive.

0:57.8

The great...

0:58.7

I was not to say, was there some news?

1:01.2

I didn't know about it.

1:02.0

Well, I heard he had gone to space on one of his own rockets, so I didn't hear whether he'd

1:06.2

survived that or not, but apparently he has.

1:08.6

And anyway, Steve, as it turns out, I think the newsroom staff is down to about 800 people.

1:16.6

And I was like, 800 people to put out that scanty rag each day.

1:21.6

What are they actually putting?

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