WHAT A SHAME: Biased Associated Press Announces Staff Layoffs and Buyouts

The liberal media death spiral continues.

As ratings for CNN and MSNBC are tanking, the Associated Press is having problems of their own and they have just announced that they’re cutting staff jobs and offering people buyouts.

Legacy media is facing a reckoning. They will change their approach or they will become completely obsolete.

From the AP, via Yahoo News:

The Associated Press says buyouts and some layoffs are ahead as it seeks to cut its workforce by 8%

The Associated Press said Monday that it would begin offering buyouts and lay off selected employees, part of a plan to reduce the news outlet’s staff by about 8% and accelerate a transition to a digital-first organization.

The move is part of what is expected to be a dispiriting end-of-year period in the news industry, which is beset by business woes that go back years. The end of a busy presidential-election cycle was also expected to accelerate reorganization plans.

The AP said those eligible for buyouts were to learn of the offer, which would include severance pay and partial health coverage for 18 months, by the end of Monday. Those whose positions are due to be eliminated would learn about their fates over the next few weeks.

Once considered the world’s largest newsgathering organization, the AP no longer makes that claim and does not reveal the size of its staff. As a result, it was impossible to say on Monday how many people would be affected. The AP said less than half of the anticipated cuts would involve its news employees, with the bulk happening within the United States.

They are not getting much sympathy.

The fast changing conditions? People want the media to report the news. They don’t like being lied to. They don’t like gaslighting. They don’t want media carrying water for a political party instead of questioning it’s every move. They want opinions relegated to the editorial…

— Peter L. D. (@PeterDeGiglio) November 18, 2024

Good. Where we’re headed, we won’t need Fake News and propaganda

— unhoodwinked (@unhoodwinked) November 18, 2024

Fake news implosion. Couldn’t happen to a nicer industry

— pam (@pamahra) November 18, 2024

The AP (and you too NYT) have become more and more untrustworthy, so this does not surprise me, and it’s hard to generate much sympathy either.

— The Middle Indian (@TheMiddleIndian) November 18, 2024

People are sick and tired of the media acting like nothing more than an arm of the Democrat party. They will change or their industry will continue to die.