Jeff Bezos could literally have subsidized the Washington Post for 20 years at a TOTAL cost of a fraction of 1 percent of his net worth.
Instead he put 300 professionals out of work and destroyed the institution that inspired me and a lot of others to become journalists.
Anyway, fuck that guy.
@edbott
I'm old enough to remember the 100th anniversary of the Washington Post march (that Sousa wrote to honor the newspaper)
* director of the Marine Band -- aka The President's Own" -- that played every inauguration since Jefferson
@edbott @TheQuinbox It's a quiet (not so quiet any more) war against freedom of speech. Why would he need to resttructure something that's working?
@edbott what incentive have we as a society given him or any wealthy person to do such a thing? when was the last time we rioted even a little? when was the last time a factory got smashed up? i dont get it... i straight up cannot remember the last time the public punished capital in this country yet everyone just expects or wishes they would behave? its bewildering
@edbott When are we going to eat these people?
Honestly...
It's oligarch Bezos...
What did you expect for the final outcome??
Come on!!
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he bought it to kill it. job done.
@edbott Jeff Bezos is a symptom, all billionaires are the problem
@edbott 300 employees might be enough to buy the paper for bottom dollar and keep it afloat? I’ve seen it done before at a little machine shop where I grew up and they kept it afloat for quite a while.
@edbott And if you use Amazon-fuck you!
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Cue sound of Katharine Graham turning over in her grave…
@edbott
Even Citizen Kane could afford to prop up a newspaper to defend the common man as a huge loss for 60 years and didn't blink
Jeff Bezos obviously didn't buy the WAPO to make money or do journalism, so that leaves only one plausible reason why he would.
@bruce I dunno. It was a bit of reputation washing when he bought it back in 2013. And it was theoretically a money-maker with some investment. But then he got divorced and found a new toy and lost interest in his journalism toy. And then it became a liability in Trump 2.
@edbott - easier to control the message when there's no one to report on it. Has nothing to do with money. Fragile ego - even when he's sucking up to Agent Orange.
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The destruction is the goal. At no point in time did Bezos consider WaPo as a profitable business. It was a nuisance and now it's gone.
@edbott he’s got a plastic blow up doll for that.
To be fair, with the money saved, he could rent Athens for his wedding anniversary.
