{"id":2558709,"date":"2026-01-30T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-media-are-arrogant-entitled-5\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:37:55","slug":"wapo-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-media-are-arrogant-entitled-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-media-are-arrogant-entitled-5\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo &#8216;Dear Jeff&#8217; Letter Reminds Us Media Are Arrogant, Entitled"},"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\">20<\/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-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-media-are-arrogant-entitled-5%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=2558709&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>Eddie Scarry of The Federalist criticizes a leaked \u201cDear jeff\u201d letter from Washington Post White House reporters to owner Jeff Bezos after reports of layoffs in the paper\u2019s sports and foreign affairs desks.Scarry calls the letter arrogant and entitled, faulting the reporters for addressing Bezos with casual familiarity, failing to make a clear request or proposal, and not acknowledging that the Post has lost hundreds of millions of dollars and depends on Bezos\u2019 funding. He argues the missive underscores how detached many in legacy media are from ordinary concerns, portraying themselves as indispensable without offering solutions or recognizing their lack of leverage. The piece concludes that such behavior reinforces public distrust of mainstream journalists.  <\/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<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44124348109@N01\/5129303018\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Jurvetson\/Flickr<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/deed.en\">cc by 2.0<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/30\/washington-post-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-how-arrogant-entitled-and-graceless-the-media-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Washington%20Post%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Jeff%E2%80%99%20Letter%20Reminds%20Us%20How%20Arrogant,%20Entitled,%20And%20Graceless%20The%20Media%20Are&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/30\/washington-post-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-how-arrogant-entitled-and-graceless-the-media-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Washington%20Post%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Jeff%E2%80%99%20Letter%20Reminds%20Us%20How%20Arrogant,%20Entitled,%20And%20Graceless%20The%20Media%20Are&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/30\/washington-post-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-how-arrogant-entitled-and-graceless-the-media-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/30\/washington-post-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-how-arrogant-entitled-and-graceless-the-media-are\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Washington%20Post%20%E2%80%98Dear%20Jeff%E2%80%99%20Letter%20Reminds%20Us%20How%20Arrogant,%20Entitled,%20And%20Graceless%20The%20Media%20Are&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/01\/30\/washington-post-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-how-arrogant-entitled-and-graceless-the-media-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>To the extent that anyone should care that a few people at The Washington Post are losing their jobs, it&rsquo;s only to assess the reaction from their colleagues at the paper. Those colleagues just inadvertently reminded the public how delusional and detached from reality they can be, while at the same time swearing you should trust them to tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Reports started circulating <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DylanByers\/status\/2015236399688249462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2015236399688249462%7Ctwgr%5E8e3090d1865a497640d4a739fc37e7cdcf73dee3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthespun.com%2Fsports-media%2Fthe-washington-post-is-reportedly-getting-rid-of-its-entire-sports-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last week<\/a> that big layoffs were set to hit the Post, largely in its sports and foreign affairs departments. It&rsquo;s the type of thing that happens in business all the time, but is treated like mass murder by those affected when it happens to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-ignores-enormous-risks-of-child-transition-to-push-kids-to-castration-instead-of-actual-care\/\" title=\"Politico Ignores Enormous Risks Of Child \u201cTransition\u201d to Push Kids to Castration Instead of Actual Care\">major news publication<\/a>. Anyone about to lose his job could be forgiven for pleading his best case to keep it, but if you ever find yourself in such a situation, God forbid, do yourself a favor and do the opposite of what the White House reporting team at the Post did.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2087579460\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brianstelter\/status\/2016877356766380414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> to the paper&rsquo;s owner, multi-gazillionaire Jeff Bezos, a list of eight writers once again captured the arrogant, entitled, graceless attitude so common among content creators in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-dear-jeff-letter-reminds-us-media-are-arrogant-entitled\/\" title=\"WaPo &#039;...&#039; ... Reminds Us Media Are Arrogant, Entitled\">dying news media business<\/a>. &ldquo;Dear Jeff,&rdquo; they wrote, addressing their boss, to whom they were presumably about to present a major request, with shocking familiarity. The letter opened with an explanation that even as White House reporters, they rely on other departments to inform their coverage and that &ldquo;our colleagues&rsquo; work helps lift our own.&rdquo; The writers then informed &ldquo;Jeff&rdquo; that they are &ldquo;all available to discuss this by phone or in person, too,&rdquo; seemingly unaware that, by nature of being Bezos&rsquo; employees, they are available to him whenever he pleases, not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>The letter went on to say every section of the paper, from Metro to Arts, is crucial in some way or another to the Post&rsquo;s political reporting, though the missive ultimately concluded with the authors maintaining that they are &ldquo;clear-eyed about the financial challenges&rdquo; their publication faces.<\/p>\n<p>What was missing, however, was any specific request or proposal. Not even an acknowledgement that they are and have always been at the mercy of Bezos&rsquo; generosity, given that the Post has lost &ldquo;hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/29\/business\/media\/washington-post-newsroom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>No, only a letter, deliberately leaked to the public, with a declaration that &ldquo;a diversified Washington Post helps us &hellip;&rdquo; and a lot of words about how important the White House reporters profess their colleagues to be to their own work.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having absolutely no leverage and then addressing the person who holds your very livelihood in his hands as though you&rsquo;re his equal. And then not even having the humility to directly ask for what you want. Bezos holds all the cards, and these ingrates send him a letter to let them know they&rsquo;re &ldquo;available&rdquo; should he want to hear about how indispensable they think they are.<\/p>\n<p>Again, this is only important in that it reinforces the fact that the content creators who still work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >dying media don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t see themselves the way a normal person does. They see themselves as special, above the rest, and never required to consider the interests and motives of people who aren&rsquo;t in their same class. They shouldn&rsquo;t <em>have<\/em> to directly ask for more money. They shouldn&rsquo;t <em>have<\/em> to get on their knees. They shouldn&rsquo;t <em>have<\/em> to publicly recognize that without Bezos&rsquo; charity they can&rsquo;t pay their bills.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&rsquo;t a group of people who deserve the public&rsquo;s trust less.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0FR8XCMYC\">Traitors: The Democrat Party&rsquo;s Collapse into Anti-American Filth<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/arrogance\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">arrogance<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/content-creators\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">content creators<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/corporate-media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">corporate media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/foreign-affairs\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Foreign Affairs<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/humility\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">humility<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/jeff-bezos\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Jeff Bezos<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/sports-2\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">sports<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/washington-post\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/white-house-reporters\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">White House reporters<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care only about colleagues&#8217; 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