Posted on 01/24/2023 6:34:15 AM PST by Red Badger
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos responded to a report Monday that claimed that he was considering selling The Washington Post so he could purchase an NFL team from an owner who hates the newspaper.
The New York Post reported that Bezos is looking to potentially buy the Washington Commanders from team owner Dan Synder.
Snyder, however, despises the newspaper because it reported on the alleged toxic management of the NFL franchise.
After the report was published on Monday, representatives for Bezos and The Washington Post both told CNN that the newspaper was not for sale.
The New York Post report comes after the newspaper’s publisher, Fred Ryan, told staff last month that there would be layoffs.
Sources reportedly told the New York Post they believe that The Washington Post is for sale even though Bezos allegedly told senior staff at the paper that he had no plans to sell.
“I think Bezos’ people could go to Dan and say as a gesture of goodwill, ‘We are selling the paper,’” a source familiar with the matter said. “I think that would go a long way with Dan.”
The bank that Snyder hired to sell the team continues to court Bezos, even though Snyder might not want to sell to him, the report said. The first round of bidding has already started.
JP Finlay, who covers the Commanders for NBC Sports, tweeted, “Not only was I told Bezos didn’t submit a bid, I’ve had people tell me the Snyder family has absolutely no interest in selling to Bezos.”
Bezos, who purchased the paper a decade ago for a quarter of a billion dollars, said in a book that he wrote that purchasing the paper would be one of his top achievements.
“I know that when I’m 90, it’s going to be one of the things I’m most proud of, that I took on the Washington Post and helped it through a very rough transition,” Bezos wrote.
The report noted that Bezos’ libertarian-leaning political views have reportedly made him an awkward fit for the paper.
Journalism professor Edward Wasserman said that he did not believe that Bezos understood how owning the paper would “muzzle him” when he bought it and that “it would make sense for him to get out of it.”
Another reason for me to not like the Red Commanders.................
Synder is rivaled only by James Dolan in the incompetent ownership stakes.
Of coarse they will let an ultra lib buy a team but not Rush Limbaugh.
Don’t forget the late Art Modell.
Also the Haslams, LOL.
Colts owner Jim Irsay was literally a meth addict. So why wasn’t he forced to sell his team? Wth did Snyder “do” anyway?
Art moved to Baltimore and won a Super Bowl in 6 years.
He then made some hundreds of millions when he sold to Bisciotti.
He seems ok to me.
He hired private investigators to dig up dirt on other NFL owners......
Irsay is smarter than you think.
He’s got the best taxpayer funded stadium deal in the NFL, makes huge money.
When there’s any non-NFL event like the high school playoffs there, who gets the revenue? That’s right right, Irsay.
They donates a couple hundred grand a year to local charities and the rubes here think he’s a God.
You’d think someone liberal enough to put a big W on their helmets (W as in ‘Wokes’, the REAL name of the old Redskins) would get along fine with Bezos and his money.
They could have just shortened it from “Redskins” to “Reds”.
I hope the Washington Football Team never gets anywhere near the Super Bowl.
“Amazon founder Jeff Bezos responded to a report Monday that claimed that he was considering selling The Washington Post”
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
“Mr. Musk? Mr. Elon Musk. Please pick up the white courtesy phone. Mr. Elon Musk.”
DAN Snyder is going to sell the Redskins commanders team?
I’ve heard that the fans in the Washington area hate DAN Snyder.
So I bet there’s a lot of happy fans in the Washington area who look forward to new ownership.
They are going to go after the “Washington” next, I suspect they will start using “DC”, instead of “Washington”.
Wanna see liberals go nucking futs?
Announce a Snyder-Bezos TRADE DEAL!.....................
They seem to grant that wish every season.................
I wonder what it would sell for today. I also wonder if circulation is up or down since he bought it.
Oh yeah. His “libertarian leanings” have had a big effect on the papers. Must be very tense. Pffft.
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