{"id":1787,"date":"2026-02-10T13:02:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:03:01","slug":"the-washington-post-now-with-50-more-boo-hoo-omg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/the-washington-post-now-with-50-more-boo-hoo-omg\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post: Now with 50% more Boo Hoo. OMG."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/200249cf-1aaa-4852-bb59-7e816f8e83ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">article<\/a> is just one big knee-slapper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM-1024x528.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1789\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM-1024x528.png 1024w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM-768x396.png 768w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM-1536x791.png 1536w, https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screen-Shot-2026-02-10-at-7.54.31-AM.png 1708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Devastated and exhausted? Sure, that terminal cancer diagnosis, big medical debt, homelessness, and having small children about to be orphaned must be a real drag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This diatribe has nothing to do with journalism. This has everything to do with wanting to preen and crow that while your lesser also-ran colleagues lost their jobs at lesser outlets because journalism didn&#8217;t keep up wit the times, you were so special, so superior, so untouchable that you didn&#8217;t have to change anything and still get to work for the prestigious WaPo (now known as the <em>Waah!<\/em>Po).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And now you&#8217;re just like them. Unemployed from a dysfunctional profession and your essence didn&#8217;t shield you from reality. You didn&#8217;t find the loophole. You weren&#8217;t exceptional. You didn&#8217;t beat the system. You weren&#8217;t living the dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">You didn&#8217;t see reality: the one quality every good journalist absolutely needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">And you never had it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is just one big knee-slapper. Devastated and exhausted? Sure, that terminal cancer diagnosis, big medical debt, homelessness, and having small children about to be orphaned must be a real drag. This diatribe has nothing to do with journalism. This has everything to do with wanting to preen and crow that while your lesser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,304,63,265,166,94],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexandra-kitty","tag-anna-nicolaou","tag-daniel-thomas","tag-financial-times","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-journalism","tag-washington-post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexandrakitty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}