It seems the liberal media doomsaying over how Twitter proprietor Elon Musk was supposedly going to make the corporate implode by chopping the previous 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 workers and broke nothing.” She admitted proper off the bat that she was “incredulous” when “Musk stated he was going to chop as much as 75 % of Twitter’s workforce final 12 months.”

McArdle famous that she initially considered Musk’s workforce overhaul as “excessive,” “so clearly irrational” and she or he pointed to an October 2022 column the place she lambasted Musk’s technique as nonsensical.

“Layoffs of that magnitude imply important operations working at half power,” she stated on the time. However now, looking back, it appears McArdle has had a change in perspective. “[S]ure, ultimately he solely laid off half the workers, however … half the workers! But the positioning continues to be working,” she stated. 

McArdle stated that Twitter’s skill to maintain chugging alongside regardless of Musk gutting its workforce raises questions on how most of the reduce positions had been even essential 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 (exhausting to say, now that Twitter is non-public), it appears to be pushed by political objections to Musk, reasonably 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 workers, what number of of these people had been truly essential, [emphasis added].

McArdle’s about-face flies in opposition to the babbling liberal media anti-Musk squad which acted like his workers 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 workers – work tougher or depart – “not solely hurts his workers, but in addition the platform’s skill to function seamlessly and to earn a revenue.” NPR whined in its Nov. 17, 2022 propaganda that “Musk’s actions are additionally seemingly costing the corporate certified expertise and extra money 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 economic 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 decisions are “paying” dividends.

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

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