Jeff Bezos' Washington Post wants to push dozens of staffers out the door, offering opinion staffers, staffers with 10 years' experience, and some desks buyout packages to leave the paper.
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The entire video desk, the copy desk, and the sports copy desks were also offered buyout packages, which Murray stressed were voluntary. Staffers will have until July to make a decision. The opinion desk was told the buyouts were meant to let staffers "make a clear-eyed decision on whether they want to be part of the new direction for Post Opinion," according to The New York Times, after Bezos announced his plans to lean into the traditionally conservative values of "free markets and personal liberties." The Post did not respond to an immediate request for comment.
Amazon cancelled the ludicrously-expensive woke adaptation of the "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy books after three woke seasons.
I am not familiar with the books or the series. I've seen a couple of YouTube videos about each. Here are some of the issues that many have with the series:
- The show was blatant about forced diversity in its casting
- The show pushed gay storylines and propaganda not present in the books
- The books' main character, a Chosen One type savior, is male, but the series downplayed his importance and elevated the importance of a female character
- A conceit of the series was the division between the sexes as far as magic -- both sexes could work magic, but each sex had its own style of magic -- but the show downplayed this to create a kind of magical gender equality which ran against a major point of the book
I really have to repeat that I know nothing about the books or the show and all of my "knowledge" is of the second-hand, "barely care" variety. Everything I just wrote could be wrong.
But I doubt it.
Bounding Into Comics discussed that wokeness.
Wheel of Time director Sanaa Hamri recently admitted that the show provides viewers an opportunity to escape from reality despite the showrunner announcing it would include LGBTQ+ propaganda, the show's casting being a clear example of woke checkboxes, and a clear injection of gender politics as seen in the idea that the Dragon Reborn could be a woman.
I take it that the "Dragon Reborn" is the male Chosen One character, which the TV show suggests might be changed to a woman.
Anyway, the show cost a lot of money. Not as much as the terrible We Had Rangz woke desecration, but a lot, and Amazon has pulled the plug.
This is another reason that Amazon's woke failure Jennifer Salke was shown the door a couple of months ago.
On Tuesday, Amazon MGM Studios announced that producers Amy Pascal and David Heyman would produce the company's upcoming James Bond film. But in hindsight, the press release was perhaps just as noticeable for what it didn;t include: A quote from Amazon MGM Studios head Jennifer Salke. Instead, it was head of film Courtenay Valenti who announced the deal.
Hollywood was perhaps shaken, but not stirred, by this week's news that Salke has exited after seven years at Amazon -- and how James Bond was perhaps among the issues that led to her departure. Talk of Salke's departure amid a power struggle with Mike Hopkins, the head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, had been swirling for a while -- and last month's deal putting the Bond IP into the creative hands of Amazon was a further signal that Hopkins was about to make a change.
Apparently Salke insisted on diluting the James Bond brand by creating a girlboss action hero Moneypenny TV show, but I doubt that was Salke's decision; that's what all of these idiots do when they buy an expensive IP. They milk it until it dies. They make it non-special by just flooding the zone with what is being called, correctly, "corporate slop."
No word on whether We Had Rangz will be cancelled. (That's the mocking Internet title for Rings of Power.)
I don't think it will be. I think Amazon chose to cancel Wheel of Time to save money so that they could continue the disastrous Rings of Power. Though Rings of Power might be cut short. They had planned five seasons, maybe they'll try to wrap it up quickly and just do three.
The conservative Warhammer Youtuber (that's a thing) Archcast says that Salke's many woke gambles with Bezos' money have cost Amazon billions of dollars.
In further Amazon/Washington Post Drama, gay black DEI zero Jonathan Capeheart is attacking standard-issue White AWFL liberal Karen Tumulty. He says Tumulty was so mean to him that he was forced to quit the Washington Post editorial board in 2023.
What did she do that was so mean? Well, when Biden made the absurd race-baiting claim that some minor changes to George voting law constituted "Jim Crow 2.0," the Post actually wrote that this was an exaggeration.
This was too much for Jonathan Capehart, who insisted that she should take his word for it that it was Jim Crow 2.0, because... he's a black man and white people should just defer to black people when they make sensationalist racebait claims.
No, really. I'm not even tweaking this for clicks.
John Sexton quotes the NY Post, which in turn quotes Capehart's gay-ass book:
In his book, Capehart, who remains a columnist at the paper, writes that he clashed with Tumulty over an editorial which took issue with then-President Joe Biden's criticism of a 2021 Georgia voting law.
Biden described the law as "Jim Crow 2.0" -- a characterization that the Washington Post editorial board deemed to be "hyperbolic."...
"Tumulty took an incident where I felt she ignored and compounded the insult by robbing me of my humanity," he wrote in the book, which was published last week.
"She either couldn't or wouldn't see that I was black, that I came to the conversation with knowledge and history she could never have, that my worldview, albeit different from hers, was equally valid."
The black left is not pushing for racial equality, but racial supremacy. All of the left's Persons of Privilege are not pushing for equality, but supremacy. Women are supreme to men, gays are supreme to straights, transies are supreme to normal people, the mentally ill are supreme to the sane, and minorities are supreme to the majority population. Except for Jews, who are Colonizers.
Why won't you just accept your place as second-class citizens already, Bigots?