Laura Ingraham on Washington Post Staff Cuts: “Start Producing Content That People Will Actually Pay For”
FOX News Channel host Laura Ingraham reacts to mass layoffs at “The Washington Post” on Friday’s broadcast of “The Ingraham Angle.”
LAURA INGRAHAM: Trump thrives and the Post sputters. That’s the focus of tonight’s Angle. All right, it’s not fake news. The Washington Post is actually dying. But staffers who were just laid off think hating Trump should give them lifetime job security. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNKNOWN: When journalists are under attack, what do we do? UNKNOWN: Stand up. Fight back. UNKNOWN: The fourth richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, owns the Washington Post. He can run it, and a lot, for the rest of time, and yet he refuses. (END VIDEO CLIP) INGRAHAM: He refuses. OK, they really don’t understand capitalism, do they? To them, the only way billionaires like Jeff Bezos can redeem themselves is by funding their left-wing causes. Now, the Washington Post has been bleeding money, we all know that, for years. More than a hundred million bucks in losses in 2024. That was 30 percent more losses than in 2023. And it’s internet traffic also declining. And with that, the Post’s journalistic standards have also been sliding as well. Now who can forget that $ 250 million lawsuit they had to settle, which was filed by Kentucky student Nicholas Sandman. They falsely portrayed him as a confrontational young man in an encounter with a Native American. Now, as happens repeatedly, anti-MAGA bias at the Post overrode their objectivity. And time and again, the Post just gets it wrong. Remember how they played defense for Kamala when it came to the border, quibbling over whether her title was actually borders czar, not about whether the border was actually secure? Then the Post tried to downplay Biden’s physical decline, cognitive decline, by contending that it was conservative media that was using cheap fake videos to make Biden look bad. Oh, OK. That was another Biden- Washington Post mistake. Now, look, I’ve been in the media business, I can’t believe I’m saying this, for over 30 years. And I know, and I knew, that if at any point in time my work on the radio, podcast, TV, writing, stop making money, I knew that I’d have to go back to practicing law. Ugh, yuck. So, to all those displaced Washing Post staffers, and I know it’s tough out there, I have a novel concept for you. Start producing content that people will actually pay for. And that’s the Angle.
