People keep saying Bezos wrecked the Post on purpose but he could have just done that if he wanted to, no need to drag it out for years. I think he and his fellow traveler billionaires have thoroughly cooked their worldview and honestly believe there is a vast, silent, ignored right wing audience

That market doesn't actually exist, they just have convinced themselves that's what's happening because that's who they pay attention to online

That belief makes them make really stupid business decisions and now the Post is going the way so many other poorly-led newspapers have gone - cut to the bone until it's bought out for pennies on the dollar by some shitty holding company

Consider Target - they thought they were making a good business decision by axing all the Pride merch, getting rid of all the "woke" signifiers. But it turns out the market actually really likes that stuff and gets mad when you make a big deal of tossing it.

The billionaire class has convinced itself for a number of reasons that America is a lot more conservative than it actually is and this is the result

You can see their media diets manifest in them morphologically