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Why I Won’t Be Working for The Washington Post: It’s Time for Jeff Bezos to Sell It.
U.S. News & World Report ^ | Wednesday, March 5, 2025 | Cameron Barr

Posted on 03/07/2025 7:06:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Soon after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, acquired The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he assured its editors and reporters — myself included — that he would give us the freedom to do our jobs and “follow the story” without interference from him.

At a 2016 Washington Post tech forum with Marty Baron, who was then executive editor, Bezos quoted a phrase he had heard from the legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward: “Democracy dies in darkness.”

It was a perfect motto to advertise the mission of one of America’s most storied and respected news organizations — a newspaper that has won 76 Pulitzer Prizes since 1936 — and herald the new ownership of a company that had been run by one family for 80 years.

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To: MinorityRepublican
panic-oh-noes

NoOneCares

21 posted on 03/07/2025 8:09:02 PM PST by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: Sparticus

+100


22 posted on 03/07/2025 8:17:46 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: MinorityRepublican

We Geez, Cammie. Thanks for sharing that with us. We were wondering.


23 posted on 03/07/2025 8:22:43 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (SCOTUS stuck it to Americans again. Africa and other failed communist dumps are our responsibility.)
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To: Sparticus

Ya right, they were going to follow the story. Buncha amateurs. The story was in front of them for a decade and they couldn’t find it if it screamed at them. So adios morons.


24 posted on 03/07/2025 9:24:25 PM PST by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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Dweeb should start calling himself Candy Barr.


25 posted on 03/07/2025 9:29:09 PM PST by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Democracy dies in darkness, yet Wapo didn’t say anything nor did they investigate when the press was left in a complete dark wbout who actually ran the government 2021-2024.


26 posted on 03/07/2025 11:00:56 PM PST by paudio (MATH: 45<47)
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To: MinorityRepublican

WHATSAMATTER CANT INLT REPORT AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP ANYMORE?

Get lost. OR GO AND WORK FOR AP !!


27 posted on 03/08/2025 8:15:10 AM PST by Pearfect (Ou can't beat the competition lock-e et )
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