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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
Bye bye Cam. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:11:50 PM PST
by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Great news! After he quits, Cameron Barr is moving to England. Good riddance, rat-boy.
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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.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Oh no! Not Cameron Barr! Any relation to fat traitor Bill Barr?
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:12:33 PM PST
by
HYPOCRACY
(Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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.
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:13:20 PM PST
by
edwinland
To: MinorityRepublican
What? Cameron Carr is leaving his "job" at the Washington Post????
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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)
To: MinorityRepublican
Oh, boo hoo. So Bezos wants a little real journalism? They act like that’s a bad thing.
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:21:01 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: MinorityRepublican
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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.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Wow This is exactly what is wrong with “journalism”. People with no real world accomplishments, limited IQs and vast over sized egos.
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:27:50 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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.
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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.)
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.
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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.)
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.
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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)
To: Flaming Conservative
Sounds just like a whiny fed employee.
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:49:12 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(Jesus can't here soon enough!)
To: Antioch
More like they lost their USAID gravy train.
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:50:20 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(Jesus can't here soon enough!)
To: MinorityRepublican
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posted on
03/07/2025 7:51:12 PM PST
by
Bullish
(I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
To: MinorityRepublican
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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. )
To: Nervous Tick
“Great news! After he quits, Cameron Barr is moving to England. “
A twofer! - Wonderful!
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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. )
To: Paladin2
No, just no. Gyorgy boy is ridiculously overpowered as it is, he doesn’t need any more power at all.
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posted on
03/07/2025 8:07:54 PM PST
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Indy Pendance
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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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