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(AP Photo/John Locher, File) The sweeping job cuts that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos supported led to more than 60,000 customers canceling their digital subscriptions last month, according to a report from The New York Times on Saturday. The story — titled “How Jeff Bezos Upended the Washington Post” — looked at how the Amazon founder has played a larger role at his paper in recent years. Bezos was able to convince executive editor Matt Murray to stick around late last year and handle hundreds of job cuts alongside then-CEO and publisher Will Lewis, according to the report. WaPo ended up laying off roughly 350 reporters out of 800 in February — accounting for 44% of its journalists. “The sports and books departments were folded, and the metro section was gutted,” The Times reported. “Most international correspondents and editors were laid off.” In response, more than 60,000 digital subscribers ditched the paper in the week following the job cuts, according to the NYT report. WaPo offers a $40 per year digital-only subscription on the low end of its subscription offerings currently, meaning those canceled subscriptions would account for $2.40 million in annual revenue if you used a conservative estimate. Bezos had put the plan in motion to cut jobs in late 2025, as the paper was grappling with an annual loss of $100 million. “[He] stays out of the paper’s day-to-day operations, as he always has. He has not shown up in the newsroom since 2023,” the report said on Saturday. “But he has dipped in more forcefully in the past two years, resulting in a series of jarring upheavals in strategy and leadership at one of the country’s most decorated news organizations.” Lewis quit in February, just days after the job cuts were announced. The reported “last straw” for Lewis was Bezos seeing him partying at the Super Bowl right after the layoffs, which other senior WaPo staffers felt was “callous.”The post More Than 60,000 Washington Post Customers Canceled Subscriptions After Jeff Bezos Axed 44% of Reporters first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - ‘A Lot of Outrage’: CNN Reports On Trump Shocking Critics with Fundraising P...
President Donald Trump’s latest fundraising campaign is causing “a lot of outrage” among Trump critics, according to CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski. The president’s political action committee sent out the fundraising emails using a photo from last Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen U.S. service members who died in the ongoing military campaign against Iran. The photo showed Trump saluting while wearing his controversial campaign baseball hat many claim should have been removed as a sign of respect, as troops solemnly transferred a flag-draped coffin. “So, this email went out on Thursday night. It was sent by Never Surrender Incorporated — That is a political action committee that supports Donald Trump,” said the KFILE leader. “It’s written as if it’s from Trump, it’s addressed to his supporters, and it tells people that they could sign up to receive — You can see it right there — ‘Be a member of the national security briefing.’ And there, right there is that photo…in between two links that says ‘claim your spot.’ And that link then takes you to a donation page for Trump’s political action committee.” Kaczynski continued: There has been a lot of outrage to this online, both before we posted our story a little bit, and a lot after we posted it, from Democratic members of Congress, Democratic Senators, former national security officials, former members of the Obama administration, who have said that this is not an appropriate use of this photo. This is an official government photo from the transfer of those remains of those service members, the six of them who were killed in Kuwait last Saturday. And it’s really it has a lot of people pretty worked up online. I don’t know in my career if I’ve ever seen a photo like this used in a fundraising email. Kaczynski said he reached out to the White House and the Republican National Committee for comment but didn’t hear back. “And as I said, people both online are very, very — a lot of people very upset seeing this photo used for fundraising, especially in the context of it being around a war that Donald Trump started.” Watch the clip above via CNN.The post ‘A Lot of Outrage’: CNN Reports On Trump Shocking Critics with Fundraising Photo Featuring Dignified Transfer first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago - Lawyer Arrested for Allegedly Extorting Client He Successfully Got a Trump Pardo...
(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) A lobbyist and lawyer who successfully lobbied President Donald Trump to pardon his client for committing tax crimes, has been charged with trying to extort money from that same client. Josh Nass, 34, was arraigned Saturday in Brooklyn after being taken into custody by FBI agents in Midtown Manhattan on Friday. An associate told The New York Times that Nass had been meeting at a hotel with other clemency seekers when he was arrested. Court papers showed that Nass had been paid $100,000 by his client Joseph Schwartz, “who was convicted of tax crimes related to a nursing-home empire that had collapsed amid allegations of endangering the residents and defrauding his employees,” the report said. Schwartz had pleaded guilty in 2024 to tax crimes in federal and Arkansas courts for “failing to pay nearly $40 million in employment and payroll taxes, as well as to a state Medicaid fraud charge in Arkansas,” The Times said. “He was sentenced to three years in federal prison.” Schwartz reportedly retained multiple lobbyists and lawyers “to push for clemency from Mr. Trump.” He reported to begin his prison term in August, but received President Trump’s pardon in November and was set free, the report said. Schwartz then reported to state prison in Arkansas but was released on parole in January “after only two and a half weeks by a board appointed by the governor,” the report said. “The White House has denied that Mr. Trump’s clemency decisions are shaped by lobbyists,” The Times wrote. Nass was apparently owed an additional $500,000, and instructed someone he hired for $3,000 to “do anything and everything” to collect the outstanding funds, the court filing showed. Nass eventually agreed to pay the individual $15,000 to finish the job, the papers said. “The papers strongly suggest that the targets of Mr. Nass’s threats were Mr. Schwartz and one of his sons, though they are not named,” The Times reported. In a statement, Joseph Nocella Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, accused Nass of having “plotted the violent extortion of one of his own clients.” Neither Nass nor Schwartz responded to The Times’s requests for comment. The post Lawyer Arrested for Allegedly Extorting Client He Successfully Got a Trump Pardon For first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Muslim Congressman Slams Republican ‘Islamophobia’: Domestic Terrorism Mainl...Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) slammed some of his Republican colleagues for their “absolutely unacceptable” remarks about Muslims and Islam last week, with Carson saying their “Islamophobia” has no place in America. The lawmaker also claimed their worries about Muslim terrorists are foolish because “white supremacist organizations” are “mainly” responsible for domestic terrorism. Carson shared his take during an appearance on CNN on Saturday morning. First of All host Victor Blackwell asked Carson to respond to “increasing anti-Muslim rhetoric” from GOP congressmen and listed examples, including Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) declaring Muslims “don’t belong” in the USA and Rep. Andy Fine (R-FL) saying America needs “more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational.” Those comments were made after several Muslims were suspected of carrying out terrorist attacks in recent weeks. Examples include an immigrant from Senegal wearing a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt and a shirt with the Iranian flag on it when he carried out a mass shooting in Texas, and a man shouting “Allahu Akbar!” and throwing an explosive device at a protest in New York City last weekend; that man and another suspect both told investigators they were inspired by ISIS, according to the criminal complaint. Carson — who is one of four Muslims serving in Congress — said the comments from his Republican colleagues were out of line. “The rhetoric is absolutely unacceptable,” Carson said. “First it’s DEI, next it’s Black women, then it’s Black men, then it’s members of the Latino community, then it’s members of the Arab-American community. Now it’s Muslims. Each week it shifts.” He said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has “failed” to “calm tensions” and show “bigotry has no place” in the Republican party. “I serve as a senior member of the House Intel Committee. One of the biggest threats to our country is coming from within our country — domestic terrorism, mainly from white supremacist organizations,” Carson said. He added “Islamophobia” is just like anti-Semitism, “anti-Blackness” and homophobia — something that should never be tolerated in the USA. “None of these ‘isms’ and phobias have a place in our society,” Carson said. “But they’re very real, and racist tropes and rhetoric that are being promoted by sitting members of Congress with no repercussions is simply unacceptable.” Watch above via CNN.The post Muslim Congressman Slams Republican ‘Islamophobia’: Domestic Terrorism Mainly Driven By ‘White Supremacist Organizations’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- Carville Declares Democrats ‘Do Not Know How To Communicate With Young Men’ ...James Carville believes the Democratic Party has trouble communicating with young men, so he busted out Stephen A. Smith for a quick lesson. In a video for Politicon, Carville declared Democrats “do not know how to communicate with young men” and brought on Smith to offer advice. “You might be the best person in the world communicating with young men,” Carville told Smith. “Give advice to Democratic strategists.” Carville, who recently proudly diagnosed himself with “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” said Democrats shouldn’t exactly emulate the sports broadcaster, but argued he can offer them tips on how to be a “lot better” than they currently are. Carville has been a Democrat openly critical of decisions made in the 2024 presidential election, as well as what he’s called his party’s focus on “woke” issues. Smith recommended Democrats focus their messaging on issues like “safety in the streets,” the economy, and job creation and preservation, and that they stay away from more controversial social issues. “Let’s speak the language of the average American citizen that’s out there trying to survive and feed their family every day,” he said. “Let’s speak to those people as opposed to a portion of the LGBTQ+ community or woke culture or canceling somebody because they got a fact wrong or they said somebody’s name wrong.” Carville went on to say he was “dead wrong” about Smith when he first predicted he’d “burn himself out” when the sports broadcaster began more frequently tackling political topics. Carville praised Smith as coming out “hot” and staying “hot.” Smith has been a rumored 2028 candidate, though he’s recently denied that he’ll run. Carville also admitted once again he was “wrong” about his prediction that former Vice President Kamala Harris would win the 2024 election, but he told Smith he’s learned being right isn’t as important as avoiding being “boring,” something he argued Smith has done. “People will not blame you for being wrong, but they’ll blame you for being boring,” Carville said. “They’ll blame you for being boring, but they’ll blame you even more for being fake,” Smith added. Watch above via Politicon.The post Carville Declares Democrats ‘Do Not Know How To Communicate With Young Men’ — Brings Out Stephen A. Smith for Advice first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- CNN Reporter Responds to Criticism of Reporting From Iran With Gov’s Approval:...
(via CNN) CNN senior international correspondent Frederik Pleitgen shrugged off criticism he and the cable news channel received for reporting from Iran with the approval of its theocratic regime, saying that was a “natural” reaction for many viewers to have. Pletigen was asked about the critics in a new interview with The Guardian on Saturday. “I wasn’t. I was sure that that was going to happen,” Pleitgen said when reporter Jeremy Barr asked if he was “surprised” by the complaints. He continued: I think right now, especially in the US, the debate about almost anything that the Trump administration does usually falls along party lines, and so you’re going to get trashed by people who don’t like ‘liberal media’ or whatever. So I wasn’t really surprised about that. And quite frankly, I don’t take offense to it, either. I think it’s a natural thing that happens, and I think a lot of it is more words than anything else anyway … Even if there are restrictions, it’s always better to be on the ground than to not be on the ground … Pleitgen then said he felt some of the criticism was “over the top” but that he can understand why people were “charged up.” His interview comes after Pleitgen reported for eight days from Iran as U.S. and Israeli forces strike the country. Pleitgen showed viewers last week that black rain was pouring from the sky in Tehran following an Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities. Some critics slammed CNN and Pleitgen for reporting from inside the country with the approval of Iran’s regime, with one member of the Trump administration calling it “pro-Iran regime propaganda.” CNN routinely noted Pleitgen was operating in the country with the blessing of its government; anchor Jim Sciutto told viewers “CNN can only operate in Iran with the country’s government approval,” last week, for example. Barr asked Pleitgen if he felt his coverage was “truly independent” considering it was government-approved. “I felt good about the coverage. I think that as far as the ongoing war was concerned, we definitely did what we’d set out to do and what we wanted to do,” he said. “One of the things I would like to delve into more, which we didn’t get to do to that extent, was to what extent the government still has the support of the people. Because there were very few people… [TheTopNews] Read More.5 hours ago
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