Posted on 06/24/2024 4:21:03 PM PDT by george76
Who really owns the paper?
I’ve seen this before, but never at such a high-profile level. Journalists, including Bari Weiss, were squeezed out at the New York Times and targeted by campaigns coordinated by their colleagues with outside radical leftist outlets like Huffington Post, Vox, and The New Republic, but this time it went bigger than ever before.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos decided that his pet paper, The Washington Post, needed a change of management and brought in vets from the UK’s Telegraph. The Post’s wokes and some around the media decided that wouldn’t fly and began running hit pieces on the two men. The specific allegations matter less than the fact that the only real issue here was political fidelity. The sense was that Will Lewis and Rob Winnett while not actual conservatives were not proper leftists and might have a different agenda than wokeness.
So hit piece followed hit piece. And after paying $250 million, Bezos finds he doesn’t really own his paper. It’s the property of a leftist media cartel that gets to veto staffing decisions. Will Bezos wake up? I doubt it. While he never struck me as all that ideological, he also strikes me as one of those bland billionaires who move with the culture and never really question whatever woke insanity comes down the pipeline.
And there are lots of other businessmen and companies in the same position.
NFS!!
While Bezos outwardly bought a newspaper in 2013, for the money he actually bought insurance against congressional and DOJ anti-trust actions.
Way smart.
Yeah. But now that Amazon is safe, Bezos is tired of losing money with WaPo. He wants to run the paper like a business so he'll cut costs by getting rid of it ASAP.
Agreed—he can fire 90% of his staff and still achieve his objectives.
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