Brandon Morse writes for RedState.com about the downfall of a once mighty media titan.
The Washington Post is dying, like Democracy does in darkness.
Cringe-worthy slogans aside, the Washington Post’s downfall is well deserved as the rag has become an ultra-biased outlet that not only proved itself to be an unreliable social narrator but proved that the ideology that it supported is an absolute failure. So it’s not a surprise that over the course of the years, its audience has more or less completely abandoned it, leaving it a shadow of its former self, a Goliath in the news industry.
According to Semafor.com, WaPo has bled out its traffic, and that bleed was heavy. From 2021, it’s lost 90 percent of its daily users. …
… The Washington Post has had to face several misfortunes over the course of the last few years. The Post was on the losing side of several fights, both externally and internally, and continues to use losing strategies despite it being clear that it’s hurting the organization. For instance, the social mood of the nation is definitely pro-Trump, with a call to reduce the size and scope of government and clean up the corruption, yet the Post continues doing things to stand in the way of Trump’s goals, such as attempting to find ways to trip up Trump’s cabinet picks.
The Washington Post did make the correct move of not endorsing Kamala Harris for president during the 2024 election, however, this caused internal strife, which is also something that’s plagued the paper for some time now. …
… The paper is reportedly now trying to move toward the center and away from its hard leftism, which is likely to upset even more staff at the paper, however, more leftists leaving may not be the worst thing for it.
The Washington Post is probably going to have to radically alter itself to not only catch up to the modern era of conveying news, but it will have to abandon its ideological rigidity, which is probably easier said than done.