The media freaked out this week after the news organization Buzzfeed announced that they are laying off 47 US employees that worked at the recently aquired Huffington Post and will shut down HuffPo Canada.
Since Trump left office liberal news organizations have seen a drop in ratings and clicks as a results companies are scaling back.
BREAKING: BuzzFeed announced layoffs for the HuffPost newsroom on Tuesday, three weeks after acquiring HuffPost from Verizon Media in February. https://t.co/slfVoyqXAl
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) March 9, 2021
Huffpost, where I grew up professionally and to which i will forever have a deep emotional connection, is laying off 47 journalists today. I’m devastated for thse folks. https://t.co/NhlF81Og9l
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 9, 2021
Independant journalist Tim Pool sarcastically posted headlines showing organizations like NBC, CNN, and the Huffington Post are all feeling the pinch.
I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start a flame in your heart pic.twitter.com/FZH0AaV0Id— Tim Pool (@Timcast) March 9, 2021
And with your admission that you feel the same
I’ll have reached the goal I’m dreaming of
Believe me pic.twitter.com/mK8aStiZ7U— Tim Pool (@Timcast) March 9, 2021
It was also reported that Buzzfeed shut down HuffPo Canada and HuffPo Quebec because the employees voted to unionize.
Progressivism in action! pic.twitter.com/BDnkxTQ2rX
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) March 9, 2021
Spring cleaning begins https://t.co/UXP3tmOAbU
— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 9, 2021
Tim Elliot from Grabien News pointed out that several other left-leaning news outlets have had layoffs after employees attempted to unionize.
Updated list: The Express, Mic, Slate, Univision, Gothamist, New York Magazine, BuzzFeed, DNAInfo, The Huffington Post https://t.co/ydjRaNrkDs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 9, 2021
The mainstream media was furious.
Wowwwwww. A massive failure to recognize talent. Embarrassing for BuzzFeed. https://t.co/cnxRLo7ueI
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 9, 2021
Respect and compassion to all HuffPost employees today.
Glad to see BuzzFeed has learned absolutely nothing about the cruelty of staggered email layoffs.
— Louis Peitzman (@LouisPeitzman) March 9, 2021
I’m also so sad that these layoffs happened when the HuffPost staff can’t physically be together.
At least I had @robojojo literally holding my hand when we got our bad break.
— Kim Bellware (@bellwak) March 9, 2021
These voices from the mainstream media are so out of touch with those who lost their job or saw their business fail during the pandemic. They but vilified restaurants and business that tried to stay open to keep their staff employed during lock downs.
On the bright side they can now join the 12,000 plus oil workers who have lost their jobs under Biden because of a policy they celebrated. Now these journalist can learn code or like John Kerry told the laid off oil workers learn to “build solar panels.”
Written by – March 11, 2021
ARTICLE SOURCE: newsthud.com
