Bezos’ Dine and Dash

It's unclear precisely what the quadrumvirate discussed, though I am told that they did spend some time fawning over Blue Origin's successful launch of the Glenn rocket, which had occurred just the day before. That said, Bezos didn't take Lewis and Murray to an upscale dinner to pick their brains on rocket science. After all, he employs actual rocket scientists for that sort of thing. The main issue at hand was obviously The Post's staggering decline…

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Inside the CNN Cuts: CNN is grieving after going through another round of deep layoffs. The Mark Thompson-led news network on Thursday cut about 200 people as it works to shift resources from linear television to its digital products. Notably, CNN said that it will aim to hire back on the digital side roughly as many employees as it is cutting on the television side. But those jobs will require different skillsets and so it’s unclear how many staffers being let go will ultimately land new positions at the network. Regardless, layoffs are a painful process to go through. Thursday’s layoffs largely impacted those who work behind the scenes, though there were some on-air correspondents who were also cut, I’m told. Producers bore the brunt of the changes. CNN brass said that…

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