Good for Ruth Marcus and bad for Bezos, who is a dictator supporting "libertarian". My guess is the butter on both sides of his slice of bread has turned rancid.
Help punish Bezos by canceling your Amazon Prime Membership. Amazon makes $30 BILLION/year from Prime Membership fees and an estimated 95% ($28.5 billion) drops straight to the bottom line. These Membership fees represent a whopping 48% of 2024 net profit.
We have to keep an eye on all Independent journalism as good citizens. My dad was a journalist when the news wasn't all about money. Most of the independent journalists that I subscribe with are just individuals. Journalism is more of a passion for them.
Never stop vetting. ⚔️
Ruth Marcus probably watched the documentary Becoming Katharine Graham great show BTW…she’s standing up for journalism which is almost nonexistent, Graham risks so much to take down Nixon when she owned the Washington Post…Congrats Ruth for your moral character
I already dropped WSJ, about to drop NYT but I'm still reading WaPo while believing less and less of what I read. Considering getting all my news from The Guardian. When the USA has no newspapers left, we're going to be adrift in a way we've never been before. Nice work, MAGA.
The beginnings of fascism, erode the Free Press and right to protest (Mahmoud Khalil), side with other fascist regimes (Russia), dismantle the workings of government.
He is a turn coat all part of his mid life insecurities . One can tell by his new very public persona . No , none of us live forever even if you have more 💰 than you need when others suffer.
Cycle of life.
“Democracies are not normal. Tyranny is the historical norm. If we stopped doing all of the continuous hard work that is needed to maintain our distinctiveness in that regard, we would quickly come into equilibrium with tyranny.”
Cancelled subscription this weekend. Got email today from WAPO subject heading of "Now is not the time to stop reading." My response: "Now is not the time to roll over and play dead to trump in your opinion pages." Apparently, I am now ticket #4304214 to be "reviewed by our staff."
Bozos is A BOZO!! He's taken the same pathway as M-Elon, and soon, his assets will fail! The majority is in agreement, and OLIGARCHS WILL NOT RULE US! BUT WE WILL RUIN THEM! WE can help MAJE THAT HAPPEN!!
Imagine for a moment
a self-proclaimed king and his prince hold a meeting with the media
p: I'm writing AI to run the kingdom
m: *mused
p: 59% of the public need MASS disinformation
m: *confused
p: the media will help us quell free speech
m: *shocked
k: do it or else
m: we're in
It’s surprising how weak and fearful billionaires truly are. Then again, it can only be the fear of losing the money, because they’ve lost any respect they may have earned
The Tech Brothers ( Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, et al) goal is to control the information we read. We have now fiction and misinformation amplified by Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos platforms and newspaper. They are betting their financial survival on a Donald Trump dictatorship.
This was predictable the moment Bezos axed the endorsement. I’m a former newspaper editor and that was a cross the line, quit, offense. And why I didn’t listen when people said “the reporters! Don’t blame them!” I knew then we could not trust the paper and wouldn’t know how it was being slanted.
I’m, I mean…yeah, yeah that’s what they clearly telegraphed that they were going to do, and now they’re doing it. Am I infuriated? Yup, have been for so long now it’s starting to physically hurt me. But is this “news” or a surprise? Not if you’ve been paying even a modicum of attention to anything.
"What presidential endorsements actually do is create a perception of bias," Bezos wrote in a opinion piece explaining his decision. "A perception of non-independence." Before he threw $ at Trump, sucked up to him and gave himself entirely. Canceled that subs. immediately after 30 yrs.
Bezos deserves the love given to musk. I, for one, canceled my prime account about a year ago and am never purchasing from Amazon again. Bezos just picked up "the apperentice" on prime. Horrible, self-serving pig.
Ruth was one of the reasons I subscribed to WaPo. I left 1st bc WaPo refused to endorse a presidential candidate, but went back. Left for good after Ann Telnaes' cartoon was censored. So sad to see another, once great, institution trampled by Trumpites.
To the extent Bezos is demanding his editors write in a style that won't be critical of His libertarian perspectives has just put nails in WaPo's First Amendment coffin. But that paper lost me as a reader/$$ last year when Bezos killed the opinion piece endorsing Kamala.
I cancelled my subscription as soon as Bezos bought the WP. I've stopped buying from Amazon and will not renew Prime. The hard part has been breaking from Whole Foods. They've gone downhill since Bezos but are still better at providing real food than most other stores. Time to quit them, too.
Because the winners always rewrite their own history. They think they are going to beat us into the ground and they will rewrite everything into flattery for themselves! We have to stop them!!
Old enough to remember when WaPo helped bring down a presidency. Appears, now, seeing a presidency bring down WaPo. Also, an observation, have not seen a single Amazon delivery vehicle in 4 days. Even tho live off the beaten path...quite unusual to not see a single one. Decisions have consequences.
Yes, brought that up today with a friend who compared this to the late sixties and my response was that we no longer have the trusted media that brought attention to the horrors of Nixon and Vietnam, and that today’s media go-tos are run by oligarchs controlling the messages.
This is how fascism works.. drive out all the truth tellers and keep all the spinless and sycophants willing to spread the lies & propaganda.. I agree she should leave, but the REST of us should be creating a SAFE place for all these people to go...Ideas?
It’s never been about efficiency. It’s tearing down the US strength, security, economy, health and education for the benefit of the tinpot war criminal and allow the uberrich to pick up assets cheap in a recession.
The media is filled with cowards and hacks. The media must speak the truth and call out wrongs and injustice no matter what. They must not bow down to anyone nor any political party. Our democracy and institutions must remain strong and be responsible and prudent representatives of all the people.
Everyone needs to quit amazon everything. Stop hosting, selling, & buying. It will hurt his workers too, but the cost of technocratic oligarchy is class & economic serfdom prison for working class children born today. We can not trade opportunity for comfort, efficiency is its own entropic demise.
It pains me to see WAPO going down in flames (spot fire by spot fire) and a part of me ... honestly? ... schadenfreude (when I think about Bezos). My heart goes out to many of the really good reporters (like Carol Leonnig).
Bezos and the Washington Post looking more like Musk with X everyday. Both took established media outlets and using them for their own purpose, releasing egos over them. I guess, a corollary to Schumpeter's theory of creative destruction applied to the media and billionaires in reverse.
If Bezos thinks by being quiet he can escape what will happen to all of these wannabe oligarchs in the coming months, he’s sadly mistaken. He also is terribly stupid to think something that ultimately didn’t work in Versailles would work here.
None of these buffoons know history.
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What are people waiting for?
The WP is not what it was . . .
Coming Soon #DefianceDay2025 (D-Day-2025) Be there
PUNISH Bezos = CANCEL Amazon Prime
Independent media is the new watchdog that we need to nurture.
Never stop vetting. ⚔️
Cycle of life.
“Democracies are not normal. Tyranny is the historical norm. If we stopped doing all of the continuous hard work that is needed to maintain our distinctiveness in that regard, we would quickly come into equilibrium with tyranny.”
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This is so very very sad.
Dear Mr Bozos,
Meet Mr Jefferson 👇
#WaPo
Not great for facts.
a self-proclaimed king and his prince hold a meeting with the media
p: I'm writing AI to run the kingdom
m: *mused
p: 59% of the public need MASS disinformation
m: *confused
p: the media will help us quell free speech
m: *shocked
k: do it or else
m: we're in
Just sayin'
Democracy dies in darkness.
#SellOutSycophant
#DirtyDarkStateDeals
#CryptoHidesTheirCash
#KrasnovNeedsALieDetector
Washington Post owner, Jeff Bezos, changes the fabled publication's slogan to "Democracy Dies Because I Say So."
I mean good for her for walking away, but also who cares?
This headline from NPR since WaPo will not report on their own reporters/columnists, even in the news section.
The rich want to take everything from average Americans, while Trump wraps it up in "America first." 🤡
They are culling.
"Trust" in WaPo has been destroyed a long time ago already.
(waiting for the door to be kicked in)
None of these buffoons know history.