Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f004
Musk and Bezos run competitive business interests in some ways, and of course, if one man has the president's ear, you'd want to poison that relationship.
Prohibiting reporting using anonymous sources seems the next logical step for Bezos and other corporate media Oligarchs.
If that happens, I hope you’ll state what will be plainly true—corporate journalism is dead.
The manner can be more or less coercive, but it’s already affected.
also looks to me like pro-free-market reporting
iff Bezos is willing to publish anti-bribery, anti-extortion, anti-sultanic-patrimonialism reporting, he will deserve credit
+ "what's wrong w negative liberty" opinions
So... yup. His stake Post isn't even rounding error.
Then he has more time to enjoy his personal oligarch freedom on his new $500 MILLION, 417 ft super yacht Koru.
Hang in there, this too shall pass.
I feel for the journalist. But, I can't support Bezos.
Don't naively trust anything that an "independent social media journalist" posts on their substack.
Always verify and apply critical reasoning.
https://youtu.be/GyleOTPeEHs
https://bsky.app/profile/ddiamond.bsky.social/post/3lj3ug2erg22z
Never sell your soul.
don't interfere with the writing direction of your reporters.
Initially, his owning WaPo was supposed to be about prestige and supporting journalism. Now it’s clearly about his personal agenda.
Way to ruin it Bezos
What a laughable and pathetic con man.
What a sad day for the WashPo.
The personal liberty of my medical decisions being between me and my doctor? Of equal rights in hiring and pay scale? Of all books being available at the library?
Hypocrites as always, the lot of them.
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#EatTheRich
Fuck off bezos.
legacy media, as far as i'm concerned. it can go rot. plenty of other media practicing actual journalism
Never more clear than today that canceling my subscription last year was the right thing to do. Feel awful for writers who built their careers there. Time to move on people.
Bezos made no Hitler salute
Bezos isn't running Doge
Bezos did no podcast with German neonazi fuhrer
Bezos isn't Donald's sidekick
2. Jeff Bezos is an utter cunt and tyrant, for sure, but that does not a fascist make.
3. See my point about gradations. Bezos is a Nazgûl. But Bezos is not Sauron.
Freedom of speech covers the media.
HEY @washingtonpost.com
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YOUUUUUUU------UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.
See the 1st amendment. Google it, I guess
Bezos: *frantically smashing light bulbs*
Liberty (my individualism)
Pursuit of Happiness (pursuit of profit)
These American values of pursuit of wealth and personal liberty says nothing about the value of your community
It has led to the a country where the rich have more rights than poor
Bezos can go f*#k himself
“It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” Baron wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.”
It's not longer a news paper, it's now a Bezos personal opinion blog.
The size book shreds the neoliberal lies to the core.
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324074373
You know what a pre-form is?
It's one of those little dick-shaped plastic bottles that factories blow up and fill with flavored slurry.
It's like his mom carried a solitary sperm cell for nine months and birthed a nasty spooge from her rancid pussy.
He's bio-waste.
Buying local has a positive effect on your budget and your neighborhood. Both your wallet and your neighborhood end up in a better place.
And yes, I prefer to buy locally if the option is there.
I don't think I spent more than €30 total on Amazon since 2019. Amazon TV series remain either unwatched... or unpaid.
"free markets" means capitalists get to do whatever they want.
We thought "Democracy Dies in the Dark" was a warning. It was the mission statement.
Idiocracy was prophecy, and we didn't realize it at the time
Thats right, it was SLAVERY that go is here. The rich making money off the backs of the poor and being subsidized by the middle class to do so.
So get fucked Jeff, you’re as bad as Elmo the Ketamine junkie wannabe geek apartheid immigrant fuck😃
Womp womp post.
Wapo has succumb to the thought police.
Orwellian to say the least.
WP has been posting billionaire sympathy for years
Now with opinion-free opinion
Mu/ump election has done to the world.
https://european-alternatives.eu/
I bet both have been told by the convicted felon not to worry about losses. Tax cuts will benefit them more. And the felon gets another paper supporting him.
Other outlets exist even if in the short term they won’t be as good.
The word "free" still existed, but only for the absence of something, e.g. "This field is free of weeds". The word could not denote free will, because intellectual freedom did not exist.
Cut off their money.
Do it now.
Done with the oligarchs purposely destroying our democracy for their individual gain.
Unfortunately I did not read the article as I’m quite disgusted with the rich at the moment.
Our country is going to be crawling with (wealthy) criminals thanks to this sleazy mofo.
How I hate him let me count the ways….
Hate is wrong but my love of country is strong and he needs to go!
I know what you mean about hate and not wanting to be that person, but it is so difficult to watch our country circle the drain.
Donald Trump is an abuser and he couldn’t care less about leaving the country vulnerable to a criminal element he should want to keep out… but instead welcomes because he is just like them.
Elect a felon expect criminals.
As step by step we slide toward #Germany1933.
#resist #AmericanFascism
The End ... of a once great beacon of Free Speech.
No one else's...'cept if you're a fellow oligarch
Whatev
PUNISH Bezos = CANCEL Amazon Prime
All Oligarchs understand is profit.
https://www.thomasnet.com/insights/jeff-bezos-companies/