“I Can’t Sugarcoat It Anymore”: Will Lewis Bluntly Defends Washington Post Shake-Up
Addressing a rattled newsroom in the wake of Sally Buzbee’s resignation, the Post’s CEO and publisher stressed the need for taking “decisive, urgent action to set us on a different path.”
The quotes here from Publisher Will Lewis and new temporary head of the WashPo newsroom are absolutely hilarious. I know little about the guy but he sounds competent and very unwilling to sugarcoat reality for his clearly sensitive staff.
The Post is hemorraging cash and he's clearly taking the problem very seriously. The quotes from staffers in the article make it clear that they are hilariously out of touch with this reality. This Vanity Fair piece is one of the most enjoyable articles I've read in a long time.
Indeed.
Out of touch snowflakes. Reading their quotes is at once infuriating and hilarious.
" Don’t we need our brilliant social journalists and service journalists as embedded in our core product to make sure that people are actually reading the thing that’s out at the center of the mission of the Washington Post?” one staffer asked, to which Lewis replied, “You haven’t done it. I’ve listened to the platitudes. Honestly, it’s just not happening.”
Lol