Journalists are lighting their torches over Jeff Bezos—but let’s be real, folks. The ink has dried on the age of print, and Bezos just showed up with a blow dryer. If your grand strategy as a newsroom is “do less, cost more,” don’t be shocked when your billionaire landlord turns your office into a robot-friendly Amazon break room.
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Here’s the plot twist nobody in the press wants to write: people aren’t ditching news for fun—they’re ditching it because it stopped being news. When a viral TikTok about rent hikes explains the crisis better than a 1,500-word article stuffed with euphemisms, what’s the point?
And now, as newspapers stare down the barrel of Bezos’ efficiency machine, we’re expected to weep for the same industry that couldn’t lift a headline for workers losing factories, towns losing hope, or real-life problems evaporating into editorial abstraction. These folks missed the “collapse of American manufacturing” while liveblogging the Met Gala. And now we’re surprised they got ghosted?
Let’s not pretend Jeff’s gonna toss them in the gutter either. No, no. He’ll optimize them. Ever seen a columnist break down a warehouse algorithm while on their 15-minute break? Get ready. Pulitzer meets pallet jack.
After all, if your op-ed can’t go viral on X (formerly Twitter, now just noise), it’s not journalism—it’s a group chat that costs $400 million a year to run.
🧨 Challenges 🧨
Are we clinging to nostalgia for journalism, or just mourning the elitism it disguised as civic duty? Should we save the newsroom—or just give it a TikTok login and a ring light? 😵💫 Drop your take below—brutal honesty, wild sarcasm, or digital-age grief all welcome.
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