{"id":2407755,"date":"2025-02-28T06:02:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-learns-that-never-trump-has-never-been-worse-for-business-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T11:04:50","slug":"wapo-learns-that-never-trump-has-never-been-worse-for-business-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-learns-that-never-trump-has-never-been-worse-for-business-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo learns that Never Trump has never been worse for business &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-learns-that-never-trump-has-never-been-worse-for-business-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2407755&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses\u200c the current state of businesses within the media industry, particularly those aligned with leftist ideologies, coinciding with the\u2064 rise of the Trump presidency adn the challenges faced by\u200d major outlets like the **Washington Post** and **MSNBC**. It highlights recent job cuts\u2063 at these organizations, including the firing of \u2063nearly 100 staffers at MSNBC and layoffs at the **Washington Post**, attributed to a decline in readership and viewership.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos, \u200bthe owner of the **Washington post**, has announced changes to the paper&#8217;s opinion section, emphasizing support for &#8220;personal liberties and free markets&#8221; and indicating a shift \u200caway from more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chatbots-like-crime-hate-firearms-a-second-amendment-study\/\" title=\"Do chatbots have an anti-gun bias? - A study on the Second Amendment\">left-leaning perspectives<\/a>. \u2062The \u2064article suggests that Bezos\u2019s decisions are motivated by business considerations rather \u2062than just ideological ones, pointing out that the readership has considerably dropped over the years, which\u200b presents a dire financial \u2063forecast.\u200c In contrast, despite the left-leaning\u2062 media&#8217;s struggles, it notes that the **New York Times** has successfully attracted subscribers by diversifying its\u2062 content.<\/p>\n<p>The article concludes that while Bezos aims to reposition the\u200c **Washington Post** to appeal\u200d to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-let-them-die-top-pta-naacp-official-says-in-tirade-about-anti-critical-race-theory-parents\/\" title=\"WATCH: \u2018Let Them Die,\u2019 Top PTA, NAACP Official Says In Tirade About Anti-Critical Race Theory Parents\">traditional liberal values<\/a>, the overall trend indicates a saturated market for conservative viewpoints, and it suggests that media outlets must recognize and adapt to the changing landscape if they are to thrive.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Washington Post learns that Never Trump has never been worse for business<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1867654\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The broader job market has remained largely robust amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/federal-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Federal Reserve<\/a>&lsquo;s monetary tightening, but you wouldn&rsquo;t know it if you looked only at the latest headlines about the news media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>MSNBC recently fired nearly 100 staffers across nine different shows, including progressive panjandrum Joy Reid, after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> CNN<\/a> announced in January that it would cut around 200 jobs, or 6% of its current workforce. And now, just a month after the <em>Washington Post<\/em> announced it would lay off 4% of its workforce, the paper&rsquo;s billionaire owner blew up its once-prestigious opinion page, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jeff-bezos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jeff Bezos<\/a> declaring that the rebooted op-ed page will write &ldquo;in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/amazon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Amazon<\/a> founder wrote in an X post. &ldquo;There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader&rsquo;s doorstep every morning a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-op-ed-editor-exits-bezos-unveils-free-market-focus\/\" title=\"... ... op-ed editor exits, Bezos unveils &#039;free market&#039; focus\">broad-based opinion section<\/a> that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Bezos got earnestly and entirely fed up &mdash; despite years of attempting to placate the Left with a $10 billion investment to combat climate change, raising Amazon&rsquo;s minimum wage to $15 per hour before it was cool, and embracing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dei\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DEI<\/a>, LGBT, and the rest of the alphabet soup. Perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">overpaid progressive parrots shouldn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t have spent years calling the billionaire who was responsible for their paychecks a &ldquo;fascist.&rdquo; Or maybe President Donald Trump&rsquo;s Reconquista of Washington has merely given the rest of the castrated billionaire class permission to find their <em>cajones<\/em> back.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps. Or, Bezos, a competent businessman sees the writing on the wall, and namely that more of the same from the <em>Post<\/em>, MSNBC, et al. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jd-vance-camp-unleashes-on-media-for-brazenly-lying-about-his-comments-on-georgia-school-shooting\/\" title=\"JD Vance Camp Unleashes on Media for &#039;Brazenly Lying&#039; About His Comments on Georgia School Shooting\">simply isn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t very good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Four years of the same unchanging and unyielding hysteria that Trump was Hitler, Israel the perpetrator of genocide, billionaires=bad, and &ldquo;democracy dies in darkness&rdquo; quite literally decimated the <em>Washington Post&rsquo;s<\/em> viewership. Compared to the 22.5 million daily readers it inherited as former President Joe Biden took office, daily readership was down nearly 90% by &ldquo;Brat Summer,&rdquo; when, theoretically, left-wing hype should have been at its highest. The paper ran a net loss of some $100 million across 2024, with fewer than half as many visitors during the election month of November 2024 as in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The story is largely the same for MSNBC. Compared with the February prior, its average viewership fell by 9% to just 111,000 in the first full month of Trump 2.0. Prime-time viewership was down 16%, to just 1.13 million. For its part, barely half a million viewers tune in to CNN in prime time.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not that peddling progressive agitprop is always bad business. The<em> New York Times<\/em> has successfully packaged its uniformly anti-Trump editorial page with its blockbuster online gaming, cooking, and athletic verticals to the tune of more than 11 million subscribers, netting the Gray Lady an average revenue-per-user increase of nearly 2% over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>But of course, the fact that Bezos&rsquo;s message meant anything partisan at all explains the problem for the rest of the progressive press. As recently as a quarter-century ago, &ldquo;free markets&rdquo; was a mantle still championed by some Democrats, and even more recently than that, &ldquo;personal liberties&rdquo; were seen as the backbone of liberal ideology. And yet, from the ACLU to the <em>Washington Post<\/em> and the <em>New York Times<\/em>, the institutional guardians of the Left made a concerted effort to cede those causes to the mosh posh of crunchy anti-war peaceniks, classical conservatives, frat bros, and ordinary Americans who make up MAGA.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/3323068\/trump-remaking-not-breaking-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TRUMP IS REMAKING, NOT BREAKING, DC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So when Bezos demands that his paper not just coalesce once more around neutrality, but rather specific, lowercase-L liberal values, he&rsquo;s not just making a moral overture or a principled one, but also a strategic one.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, his business calculation also reveals a bit of hubris, mainly the insinuation that the center-right commentariat isn&rsquo;t already saturated with the practiced pens you read here at the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. But unlike collectivists and communists, we conservatives welcome the competition. We simply trust that readers have a taste for true believers over turncoats who waded to the Right because Bezos bade them to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1867654\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1867654\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post finds Never Trump has harmed business significantly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2693,"featured_media":2407756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1036093738.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51290,35853,32076],"class_list":["post-2407755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-impact","tag-never-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-1036093738.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407755"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2407759,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407755\/revisions\/2407759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}