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The Associated Press announced on Monday that it plans to “adapt” to changes in the news media by laying off eight percent of its staff.

The plan, according to the AP, is to buy out some higher-level employees while selected others will be let go.

“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,” the outlet self-reported. “Those whose positions are due to be eliminated would learn about their fates over the next few weeks.”

According to the New York Times, the AP News Guild said in a note to employees on Monday that the cuts were due to a decline in revenue.

“The Associated Press — a news cooperative that licenses its content to member organizations — has come under financial pressure over the last year as some news organizations have abandoned the service,” the Times notes.

“Gannett, the publisher of USA Today and the largest newspaper company in the United States announced in March that it would stop using reports provided by The Associated Press. McClatchy, the newspaper chain that owns The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star, followed soon after,” according to the Times.

While no reason was specified for why these larger outlets have dropped the AP, it should be noted that the Associated Press suffers from a deep liberal bias. One so deep, in fact, that many of the outlet’s critics were quick to relish in its demise.

Look (*Language warning):

During the feud in Florida a couple of years back over the Parental Rights in Education bill, the AP was quick to follow the Democrats’ lead and falsely referred to the bill as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

In 2022, the AP updated its stylebook to include a new stipulation ordering “journalists” to no longer use the accurate term “late-term abortion” because it made Democrats look bad.

When the controversy erupted earlier this year over disgraced former Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s plagiarism, the AP ran a report about the “new conservative weapon against colleges: plagiarism.”

And then in February, the AP inspired heavy backlash when it downplayed the murder of Augusta University nursing student Laken Riley by ignoring the fact that she was killed by a criminal alien.

“[A]uthorities on Thursday found the body of Laken Hope Riley and arrested Athens resident Jose Antonio Ibarra, 26, on suspicion of murder. The victim and suspect did not know each other, and University of Georgia Police Chief Jeff Clark called the killing a crime of opportunity,” the AP reported at the time.

But he wasn’t an Athens resident insomuch as he was a criminal illegal alien.

The AP later doubled down on its narrative with the following tweet:

The stunning story and X post prompted a massive backlash.

“No mention of the fact that he is an illegal immigrant. The story tries to make it about toxic masculinity rather than addressing the elephant in the room—weak border policies enable unvetted illegal aliens with criminal backgrounds to endanger citizens,” one critic tweeted.

“The AP conveniently hides the fact that the murderer was an ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT from Venezuela and frames this into a toxic masculinity problem. What the actual f–k. F–k journalists, stop giving these outlets clicks and let them go out of business,” another critic wrote.

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