It seems the liberal media doomsaying over how Twitter proprietor Elon Musk was supposedly going to make the corporate implode by slicing the outdated regime’s censorship-obsessed workforce in half was nothing however noise. And even a Washington Submit columnist needed to eat crow.

Submit columnist Megan McArdle was blunt in her Feb. 19 op-ed: “How Elon Musk fired Twitter employees and broke nothing.” She admitted proper off the bat that she was “incredulous” when “Musk mentioned he was going to chop as much as 75 % of Twitter’s workforce final yr.” McArdle famous that she initially seen Musk’s workforce overhaul as “excessive,” “so clearly irrational” and he or she pointed to an October 2022 column the place she lambasted Musk’s technique as nonsensical. “Layoffs of that magnitude imply crucial operations operating at half energy,” she mentioned on the time. However now, on reflection, it appears McArdle has had a change in perspective. “[S]ure, in the long run he solely laid off half the employees, however … half the employees! But the positioning continues to be operating,” she mentioned. 

McArdle mentioned that Twitter’s potential to maintain chugging alongside regardless of Musk gutting its workforce raises questions on how most of the minimize positions had been even crucial to start with:

Certain, there have been transient service points, typically accompanied by apocalyptic predictions (on Twitter) of the platform’s imminent demise. But when there was an outflow of customers (onerous to say, now that Twitter is non-public), it appears to be pushed by political objections to Musk, quite than a decline within the technical high quality of service. Which raises a query: If Twitter can get by for 3 months on a fraction of its employees, what number of of these people had been really crucial, [emphasis added].

McArdle’s about-face flies in opposition to the babbling liberal media anti-Musk squad which acted like his employees crackdown was a show of incompetence for months. 

NPR castigated Musk primarily based on feedback made by an unnamed tech lawyer. The outlet claimed that Musk’s ultimatum to staff – work more durable or depart – “not solely hurts his staff, but in addition the platform’s potential to function seamlessly and to earn a revenue.” NPR whined in its Nov. 17, 2022 propaganda that “Musk’s actions are additionally probably costing the corporate certified expertise and more cash in the long term.” Fortune journal pleaded in a Dec. 2, 2022 story: “Don’t make Elon Musk’s errors when hiring and firing in an unsure financial system.” 

The leftist former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tried to throw a zinger at Musk’s enterprise choices in a Nov. 21, 2022 column for The Guardian headlined: “Elon Musk went on a firing frenzy at Twitter. Now he’s paying for it.” Apparently Musk’s selections are “paying” dividends.

The rating, for now, is abundantly clear. Musk: 1. Media: 0.

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