Note: A newspaper can certainly turn a profit. One way for a newspaper to make a profit is if you keep its subscribers from canceling their subscriptions en masse.

Note: The least cynical explanation is that Bezos simply isn’t paying attention. Maybe—like so many of us initially—he was charmed by Lewis’s British accent and studied loucheness that mask an emperor whose bespoke threads are no clothes at all. Or maybe, as many of us who deeply love the Post fear, the decimation is the plan.

Note: We don't need to pre-obituary the Post, and everyone knows its Watergate glory days. But for me, its glory days were 2013 and 2014. That was when I spent months pouring through the Snowden files for The Guardian, racing against Bart Gellman's team at the Post that was trying to beat us—and unfortunately sometimes did—as much as we were trying to beat them. The public has a richer understanding of the realities of post-9/11 surveillance because of our competition.