If the “facts” being spread around the Internet are correct, and the Washington Post is going to cut half of its staff and especially hit its foreign offices and sports page (it has already decimated its coverage of local news, and destroyed what was a responsible editorial page), it will mean (a) that a lot of good reporters are going to have to find new jobs during a terrible market for journalism, (b) the Washington DC metropolitan area of about 6,000,000 will no longer have a first class newspaper, (c) the Post will become a domestic political newspaper owned by one man with set opinions, and (d) American journalism will suffer one more horrendous blow.

Dear Jeff Bezos: You are very rich. There is no reason that you have to do this to the newspaper you own and the people who depend on its reporting. The only reasonable conclusion is that you, like most of the other billionaires in the country, believe that your continued success is connected to fealty to Donald Trump and his billionaire agenda. Shame on you.