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Posted on 02/06/2026 4:28:31 AM PST by DFG
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos didn’t really buy the Washington Post to keep democracy out of darkness or whatever, he bought it to build influence and decided that the Resistance branding was poison in the post-woke era of the second Trump administration.
His staff doubled down.
So he tried bringing in editors and people from conservative British papers and Washington Post staffers worked to sabotage them.
The ongoing battle over the Washington Post between its actual owner, Jeff Bezos, the 2nd wealthiest man in the world, who paid $250 million for it, and the staff, show that, at least when it comes to the media, the question of ownership is about more than who legally owns it.
The usually hands off owner intervened aggressively, ordering the paper not to publish an endorsement of Kamala Harris. In response, an editor-at-large, columnists and editorial writers left, and and other columnists including some with extremely checkered reputations like Karen Attiah, at the heart of Qatar’s Jamal Khashoggi influence operation, Max Boot, whose wife would be indicted for acting as an unregistered foreign agent, and Jennifer Rubin, who was practically on Biden’s payroll, wrote angry columns protesting the non-endorsement.
The Post featured these diatribes prominently. Post columnists, including its alleged ‘humor’ columnist Alexandra Petri (married to the paper’s current deputy opinion editor), took shots at Bezos in his own paper. The paper promoted ‘outrage’ by readers who threatened to cancel their subscriptions for ‘threatening democracy’ as if the average Post reader were likely to vote for anyone but the ‘D’ even if he were the devil himself.
Truly fed up now, Bezos announced that the new missions of the editorial page would be “personal liberties and free markets” and contended that “these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas and news opinion.” Opinion page editor David Shipley resigned.
But now Bezos, the head of a company that was notoriously casual about firing top people at Amazon, is demonstrating who owns the paper by firing a third of the staff, over 300 people, and the media is raging and weeping.
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post – The New Yorker
The Murder of The Washington Post – The Atlantic
‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of worker – The Guardian
How exactly did they think this was going to end? Bezos is many things, but a weak sister isn’t one of them, and he didn’t spend $250 million WaPo to maintain it as a place for entitled jornos to defy his interests and badmouth him.
Trying to give him the Bari Weiss treatment and setting off a power struggle for the paper was the worst move they could have made. If they had waited a few years, Bezos would probably have flipped and they could have gone back to doing their thing. Instead they launched a power struggle with one of the wealthiest and most ruthless men in the world that was only going to end one way.
Bezos actually owns the paper. The staff doesn’t. And doubling down is more likely to radicalize Bezos who never seemed to be political anyway. Between CBS News and the Washington Post, the media is losing influence while alienating the companies it’s been abusing to push its propaganda.
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Winning! Hopefully these guys are next.
How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post – The New Yorker
The Murder of The Washington Post – The Atlantic
‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of worker – The Guardian
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If Bezos turns the Post into a true far-right newspaper, he could change the world. Just make it a feature to run stories as “Here’s what the MSM says/And here’s the Truth”. I would subscribe again.
Democrats and Republicans were almost the same in 1877.
The entitlement of the media sub-class of the ruling class is astounding. Bezos just owes them pay as they kick him in the nethers.
You don’t hate the media enough.
Bezos is a shark, not a conservative.
The minute leftists are in power, he’ll align with them to serve his own interests.
So nobody go get all warm and fuzzy because he fired a bunch of leftists today.
Imagine that. Trying to make money
Better in the agitprop industry than the automotive one eh?
The Mad Hatter Trump Deranged Leftist Press is now being relegated to the dust bin of history.
The World Goes NUTS !
https://youtube.com/shorts/NLqjK8r_4N0?si=10Aaprw0za4b0UjT
Msg to the former staff of the WashPo:
1) Trump is still your President.
2) Lear to code.
As a side note, regarding this:
>Karen Attiah, at the heart of Qatar’s Jamal Khashoggi influence operation,
Jamal Khashoggi was a Muslim Brotherhood political/intelligence operative who was using “journalist” as a cover, as such operatives often do. He was inartfully dealt with by the Saudis. It is the Islamic Middle East, they operate differently than we tend to in the West. Wringing one’s hands and acting like some terribly unusual event had happened here, an affront to “Journalism” and such, is absurd. So of course Leftists do it.
FINALLY, FINALLY...liberals are getting what they have done to others for 30-40 years that I’ve been aware. They have diligently sought to remove me from jobs once they learned I was conservative. Thank you God for allowing justice to prevail.
Or open a daycare.
Re Goes Nuts:
Well, it’s one of the ways they maintain control of the narrative. They control media to a large degree, and they control a lot of newspapers, which allows them to spread their propaganda far and wide.
Then Trump came along… And blew up their comfortable little existence.
Jeff Bezos read the way the wind was blowing and reacted to it.
Is Bezos Jewish? I hope the lefties don’t try to burn him up too!
“Far right”? What the hell does that mean?
I don’t plan to quibble over wording. I mean patriotic. I mean pro-Constitution. I mean moral and traditional. I mean a newspaper that values simple decency. I mean men being men and women being women.
The two best responses I’ve seen on this event.
Dave Burge, IowaHawk, who used to post here, has the best one line commentary.
“I just gotta say it’s truly amazing how journalists can grovel for their jobs while effortlessly maintaining their condescension.”
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/2019097478822531373?s=20
Then we have this from Seth Dillon, owner and CEO of the Babylon Bee:
“If your position at The Washington Post was recently eliminated, please consider applying to write for The Babylon Bee. We are seeking applicants experienced in writing fictional content presented in the tone and style of a legitimate news organization.”
https://x.com/SethDillon/status/2019493816797896907?s=20
Far right means anarchy. What do you think it means? Socialism? Like National Socialist Workers Party? Or the good socialist, like Democratic socialists?
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