The good thing in looking over the past week of news coverage is that there was a refreshing dose of new items for the press to get in a tangle over. While ICE operations do continue in Minnesota, we at least had some new topics to see the press fretting over.
The release of the Melania documentary had the press recalibrating data to make a successful debut out to be a failure. The Winter Olympics went into full scheduling, and there was a need to prod athletes to be critical of the country, allowing the press to then be critical of those who were critical of the athletes' criticisms. The funny thing is that only one side was said to have a First Amendment right to criticize.
The Super Bowl halftime show with Bad Bunny was a topic of lectures from news outlets. Then, to close the week, there was all manner of hysterical outrage over a video posted by the president that had demands for an apology – that was not going to arrive. There was plenty to have the press unspooling, so let's tug on our hip waders and wade through the swamp of news outlets this past week.
THE CONTENDERS
CNN – Kasie Hunt was content to allow Jamie Raskin to say the SAVE Act threatened the right to vote for women. After touting art acts canceling on the Kennedy Center, Brian Stelter slammed the decision to close the Center for two years because acts will be denied work. When discussing the WaPo layoffs, Stelter was calling for a new steward to run things, but previously, he predicted the demise of Twitter and said the marketplace had made a decision. After months of saying ICE agents in Minneapolis were the Gestapo murdering citizens, the network had a feature encouraging a pair of teenage brothers who were harassing the supposed “Nazis.” Abby Phillip had yet another instance of insisting on something that was then immediately disproven with facts.
ABC News – A “Good Morning America” piece on Savannah Guthrie’s mother missing edited out all of the family’s mention of faith and prayer. The network gave a weepy report of how a father missed his son’s funeral due to his detention by ICE. They complained that new work requirements for SNAP payouts were unfair because the people who managed to successfully sign up for the benefits would struggle to file proper paperwork.
New York Times – Peter Baker apparently thinks Jeff Bezos should be fine with his paper losing $100 million a year, because he's wealthy. In a sympathetic biography on a family self-deporting, the Times buried dozens of paragraphs deep the reality that they had been using stolen identities for years. The Times was exposed for blaming any weather anomaly on climate change. Jamelle Bouie suggested JD Vance’s mother should have sold him for Percocet when he was a child.
THE WINNER
WASHINGTON POST
The paper announced the scope of the expected layoffs, and it was severe. One third of the staff was cut, including eliminating the sports department, book reviews, all staff photographers, and a number of foreign bureaus.
Then, immediately after this, the general press was more outraged when CEO Will Lewis abruptly resigned.
One former Post Worker showed that Bezos was actually doing the very thing many complained about, and spent generously on the operations at the paper.
As the layoffs took effect, the paper seemed intent on showing why the firings were valid. Eliminating the sports section was shown to be wise.
There was the claim that climate change was making staging the winter Olympics more difficult.
While claiming the paper had turned MAGA, there was a report that an Olympic skater nearly missed an event due to the motorcade of J.D. Vance.
The music correspondent saw the activist messaging at the Grammy Awards and declared it was rare to see celebrities being political at a ceremony.
In its coverage of the bio-lab discovered in Las Vegas, there was no mention of the Chinese government connections.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the firings at the Post were a loss to what she called “our media”.
When Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon.
— Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@RepAOC) February 4, 2026
This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
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