Joachim: The death of the Washington Post sports section, and of lasting memories.

Bezos could have saved WaPo’s sports and local journalists. He laid them off instead.

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Joachim: The death of the Washington Post sports section, and of lasting memories.

The Washington Post, for so many of us a sacrosanct bastion of journalistic excellence, has shuttered its sports section.