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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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1 posted on 03/07/2025 7:06:25 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Bye bye Cam. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.


2 posted on 03/07/2025 7:11:50 PM PST by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Great news! After he quits, Cameron Barr is moving to England. Good riddance, rat-boy.


3 posted on 03/07/2025 7:12:15 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh no! Not Cameron Barr! Any relation to fat traitor Bill Barr?


4 posted on 03/07/2025 7:12:33 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“he assured its editors and reporters — myself included — that”

WaPo writer doesn’t even know when to use “myself.” It should be “me included,”

You assure yourself. Jeff Bezos assures you.


5 posted on 03/07/2025 7:13:20 PM PST by edwinland
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To: MinorityRepublican
What? Cameron Carr is leaving his "job" at the Washington Post????


6 posted on 03/07/2025 7:15:27 PM PST by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh, boo hoo. So Bezos wants a little real journalism? They act like that’s a bad thing.


7 posted on 03/07/2025 7:17:42 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sell it to S0r0$?


8 posted on 03/07/2025 7:21:01 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just die already.


9 posted on 03/07/2025 7:26:15 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Wow This is exactly what is wrong with “journalism”. People with no real world accomplishments, limited IQs and vast over sized egos.


10 posted on 03/07/2025 7:27:50 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Self-termination is the way employees can remedy substantive differences with grace and class when one finds themselves no longer of value to the employer. I sincerely doubt Jeff Bezos needs business consulting advice from the hired help, however.


11 posted on 03/07/2025 7:33:24 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Liberal Talk Radio, Cam. Go build your money pit and put some skin in the game. Jeff Bezos did. He sold books out of his garage.


12 posted on 03/07/2025 7:36:43 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Sparticus

He’s upset that the post was losing its non-partisan truth seeking objectivity and the last straw was when Bezos wouldn’t let them endorse Karmala.

Liberalism is a mental illness.


13 posted on 03/07/2025 7:45:54 PM PST by Antioch (A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished -Friedrich Schi)
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To: Flaming Conservative

Sounds just like a whiny fed employee.


14 posted on 03/07/2025 7:49:12 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: Antioch

More like they lost their USAID gravy train.


15 posted on 03/07/2025 7:50:20 PM PST by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't here soon enough!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey Cam, GFY Jackass.


16 posted on 03/07/2025 7:51:12 PM PST by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Great news!


17 posted on 03/07/2025 7:52:05 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: Nervous Tick

“Great news! After he quits, Cameron Barr is moving to England. “

A twofer! - Wonderful!


18 posted on 03/07/2025 7:57:40 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: Paladin2

No, just no. Gyorgy boy is ridiculously overpowered as it is, he doesn’t need any more power at all.


19 posted on 03/07/2025 8:07:54 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Indy Pendance

He PROBABLY is one.


20 posted on 03/07/2025 8:08:20 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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