The Democrat-controlled media complex was shaken to its core when Donald Trump swept the electoral map a few weeks ago.
Media outlets are already announcing massive changes to how they present coverage moving forward.
And Donald Trump burst into laughter after he caused The Washington Post to make this massive change.
Bezos’ Washington Post fires chief political editor
With President-elect Donald Trump set to return to the White House in January, Democrats’ media allies have been scrambling to come to terms with their defeat.
The Washington Post has been one of the more proactive media organizations to shake up its approach in response to Trump’s rise in popularity.
Bezos was famously attacked with calls for boycotts and mass resignations by staff members when he announced that he would not endorse any candidate for President to avoid appearing biased.
But that did not stop the company from reading the writing on the wall, which was a demand for better reporting as opposed to the mass production of Democrat-backed fake news by the media.
Dan Eggen, the senior political editor at the Washington Post, was let go from his position as the news group aimed to find a pathway to more “centrist” media coverage.
According to an email authored by Eggen and obtained by Lachlan Cartwright at the Hollywood Reporter, the veteran political editor felt “crushed” over his removal from the position.
“I struggled with how to write this message since there is an element of begging to it that is not particularly attractive,” wrote Eggen. “But what the hey: I was informed Monday that I will be removed as senior politics editor at the end of the year. I will leave it to others to explain why.”
When Eggen was promoted to the senior role in 2022, he had been coming off a decade run at the Washington Post’s political desk.
The paper claimed he had “established himself as one of our sharpest and most agile editors, elevating our daily reports by driving scoops and accountability reporting on some of journalism’s most competitive beats.”
Washington Post sheds their radical weight from the company
Eggen’s dismissal follows a monumental wave of changes being undertaken by the Bezos-run paper.
Following their decision to not endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for President, “several veteran staffers resigned, including members of the editorial board, and the paper lost about 10% of its total subscribers, over 250,000 people,” reported the New York Post.
This decision was defended by the paper’s owner, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who wrote an October opinion piece arguing that endorsing candidates for office creates a “perception of bias,” while adding that his paper was “failing” their mission to be a reliable source for news coverage.
The Washington Post has been subject to great controversy throughout 2024, including a threat from columnist Jen Rubin to quit had Trump won the election – a threat she has since recanted.
The massive controversy around Rubin, however, surrounded her decision to claim on an episode of her podcast that “Republicans want to kill your kids.”
“You have to boil it down to nuts and bolts and you have to be pithy,” the Washington Post’s columnist began.
“What do I mean by pithy? How about this: Republicans want to kill your kids. It’s actually true,” claimed Rubin.
The Trump campaign had argued to the FEC that the Washington Post had been making illegal in-kind contributions to the Harris campaign prior to the election when it was discovered that the company was paying to boost stories that criticized Trump on social media.
The Washington Post is not the only media company that is shaking up their strategy behind media coverage, however.
Recently, Comcast made the announcement that they would be selling off MSNBC and The View to distance themselves from the radical biased coverage against conservatives.
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the Los Angeles Times, also announced that he would not endorse a candidate for President this year.
This was followed by a promise to build a “new editorial board” that will aim to ensure that “voices from all sides will be heard.”
“If it’s news, it should just be the facts, period,” argued Soon-Shiong in an interview with Fox News. “And if it’s an opinion, that’s maybe an opinion of the news, and that’s what I call now a voice.”
Donald Trump’s electoral sweep has sent shockwaves across the universe of so-called ‘legacy’ media.
But the question is whether or not their moves come too little, too late to earn back the trust of a majority of Americans.
