The local cuts hurt and feel like a betrayal if you’re in the DC area. It’s possibly the most mature outlet covering local issues with actual investigative reporting. At a time when local TV outlets are bare bones operations barely limping along.

Seeing a local institution gutted by an outside force simply sucks.

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earlyriser 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm not familiar with this, but are you saying the Washington Post doesn't post about Washington anymore?

	▲	palmotea 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I'm not familiar with this, but are you saying the Washington Post doesn't post about Washington anymore? You should probably read about the cuts we're talking about, then. From the OP: > The metro staff, already cut to about forty staffers during the past five years, has been shrunk to about twelve
	▲	input_sh 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's not a 0 or a 1. They had more staff doing it, now they have less. That means they now do 0.2, which is not 0 as you're implying, but it's still significantly worse than back when it was 1.

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The outside force you're referring to is Facebook Marketplace.