Brave to @jeffstein.bsky.social, WaPo's chief economics correspondent, for not wasting any time in stating what must be stated. Hopefully the first of many.
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I am so proud of the few who stood up and put themselves in harm's way to literally take a stand for American ideals. They should be the only headlines in media but we can see that is not happening so we have to do it ourselves. Chris Kluwe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6k2xktUot4
Boycott JeffBezos. Cancel Amazon Prime, not Washington Post. Support independent journalists' voices reporting in the papers. Do not order through Amazon. Shop and support local liberal business owners. Boycott the regime's economy.
I love this statement but I am not going to lie… there is a part of me that feels like since it isn’t happening to him he will stay. I wish there was some solidarity with Washington reporters that this shouldn’t be happening to ANYONE and if it’s happening to one it is happening to all.
The only protest worth doing is unsubscribing from WaPos and Prime and Turn your TV's to MSNBC, all day - everyday, not just YouTube.
Ratings and Losing subscribers in equal measure is the ONLY thing that will move the needle.
The Century of the Self.
Brave would be recognizing that independence is an illusion under these conditions and leaving. Instead he’s encouraging people to continue to engage with the paper and positioning himself as a reliable safety valve, which is both self-serving and harmful.
... tho' — and I'm being honest here — now that I've read your bio, I can't help but think that for many of those 25+ yrs I was probably one of the comfortable journalists of which you write.
Different times, then. I was straight out of high school. In those days, paper-of-record stood for something
Donate to Wikipedia STAT! Use it to research Republicans supporting massive benefits cuts and develop plans to hit them in their own pockets. Elon wants to destroy Wikipedia for a reason!
I’ve held on to my subscription bc it’s my local paper and I support the majority of their journalists … however, I think it’s time to go. I hate that there was a time not too long ago where I actually (naively) believed he was as a decent guy. Shame on me.
So the Oligarchs are fast taking control of our government, our media, and our legal system. If you haven't yet figured it out, we are on the cusp of a revolution. Americans are not used to being bullied as a group, and will only take so much before they take action.
I guess it's a partial win if WaPo merely descends to the style of TheEconomist. #TheEconomist has excellent global news coverage by serious dedicated reporters ... stapled to an opinions section that feels like some fool's blathering bathroom wall of ideological scatology.
I am about to do to CNN & MSNBC what I did to WaPo back when Bezos canceled the Harris endorsement a few days before the election: cancel my subscriptions, deleted apps, and look elsewhere for links to share if possible.
I’ve basically forgotten about WaPo already. It’s not so hard really . 🤷♂️
Stay and fight! If all the good people quit instead of stay and fight, we won’t have anyone to resist and undermine these criminals and we need that! That was all that held back Trump et all back the first time
Since Bezos hates freedom of the press and freedom of speech, maybe he should get out of the newspaper business. Meanwhile the rest of us are going to put a serious dent in his online market place. His money-loving fiancé will soon think he’s not worth the trouble.
Name brand media is running on reputational inertia. They can still drive polls and votes with normalizing and minimizing headlines and phone alerts, the way a scary number of busy unengaged folks get their understanding of the world.
Hello, my friends, you see the suffering, but it is much worse than you see. I hope you feel me when I can't buy food for my little sister. Please donate and spread 😭😭😔
Of course he's going to interfere with the news side - aren't you guys getting it yet? The Fascist playbook instructs taking over the media to control the messages getting out, to manipulate and control. Bezos likely only bought the newspaper for the sole purpose of aiding this fascist coup.
are people still reading that? Thought everyone fussed about cancelled back during the election. And again at inauguration. What’s it gonna take people? It’s like TikTok- considering how many people said they were leaving, videos still getting millions of views. Lots of performative “leaving”
I dropped out of buying from corporations (to the extent possible). I grew up in the People's Republic of Austin & was there when Whole Foods' 1st store was flooded. Folks pitched in to help clean up. For free. But I haven't shopped there since Mackey said people are not entitled 2 food. Monster.
WaPo is a sad, cynical shadow of what it once was… a bulwark of the fifth estate. Now…. Just another cog in the American propaganda machine that calls itself “the press”. Nothing but an oligarch’s newsletter now. Boycott. All day, every day.
Exactly. I stopped trusting any of them that continued going to his press conferences after he banned the A.P.
And I certainly don’t trust him nor anyone else at that rag now.
@therealjackhopkins.bsky.social So now MAGA and the GOP want to take people's guns. The irony of this whole damn shit show. Also, this blond girl is speaking to him like a child. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yc9DYN/
Yeah I'm on the fence about this. As far as I'm concerned the paper is tainted. How can I trust anything it prints? And that taint extends to everyone who chooses to remain on staff.
Whatever prestige once came with that brand has been replaced with whatever is the opposite of prestige. Taint.
The problem is, we readers can no longer trust the paper. It’s an impossible position to put your reporters in. How can we know that this will not chill the work of some reporters who have jobs the cherish, and bills to pay. Some of it may even be subconscious. He’s broken the paper.
Like Trump’s buddy Orban of Hungary. His Billionaire Loyalists Own the media outlets & Spread LIES and Conspiracy Theories and attempt to Normalize His Lawlessness and Cruelty.
Musk, Murdoch, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bannon, Jones, Theil, Pecker…
All Trump’s ideas Taken from Dictators He admires.
He should quit now and move to another publication, because it’s only a matter of time before he gets to the news. I’m sure they are getting hit every time someone writes or says something against the fascist regime.
I hope all the people who said "cancelling subscriptions after bezos trashed the endorsement just punishes the good reporters" realize that the paper was and is already gone. Who wants to read more propaganda?
These kind of statements are great, but the reality is that everyone is going to say this and at least some of them will be lying. Any new writers appearing in the Post have to be assumed to be complicit, and existing ones will still be at the mercy of their editors.
Isn't this the same as saying 'it hasn't hurt me yet so I'm staying the course until it does?' I don't want anyone to be without a job, but I wish the entire staff could walk away.
People who have subscriptions need to cancel them immediately. The only way the billionaires will feel it will be when they are their value is diminished.
Except we don’t want anymore good ppl quitting. We want them sticking around, gumming up the works, & being subversive. We don’t need more “protest quitting”, we need malicious compliance & sabotage.
Hmmm. Really low bar here. “Don’t step over this line or I quit” soon turns into “Ok but if you step over THIS line, I’ll really quit this time”. The opinion editor quit because he didn’t like the mandate issued by Bezos. That is real courage.
Good for @jeffstein.bsky.social. Nothing good can be gained by an oligarch controlling a newspaper’s stories and editorials. #Journalism should protected by the #FirstAmendment — at least it used to be.
Why isn’t @jeffstein.bsky.social reporting on the multi-BILLION dollar racketeering lawsuit filed by #Amazon victim #BrianScranton against #JeffBezos and his gang of legal thugs?
Alleges #Bezos conspired with #GibsonDunn and #DOJ prosecutors to shake him down. 😵💫
I mean… kind of? Real “first they came for the communists” vibes but then followed up with “let me tell ya, they come for me?? Imma be PISSED😡… anyway back to work for this anti-press freedom piece of shit…”
All this quitting & resigning by everyone just allows them to replace you easier. How bout you stay & continue to do whats right till your fired. Example, if he dont like what your bout to print, print it anyway. if DOGE shows up saying give me access, deny it, then deny it again when they come back
Quit WaPo when 1) stopped free subscriptions for Feds and 2) wouldn’t support a Presidential candidate. Sad, as I grew up reading the WaPo on lazy Sundays
“Mr. Bezos’ new focus echoes what has long been the informal tagline of The Wall Street Journal’s conservative opinion pages: “Free markets, free people” …
… the world of the tariff-besotted FOTUS doesn’t exactly include free markets either
The Washington Post is collaborating with billionaires trying toe end our system of government so they can pillage for all that is left. If you work at the Washington Post that is the business you are engaged in.
I am sorry your bar became a Nazi bar, but that is what it is. It is home to traitors
If he's not feeling encroachment on the "news side" while the paper as a whole is obviously ideologically captured, then it's because he's already minding the clearly marked fences with his reporting.
@crampell.bsky.social Are u OK? I only keep my WaPo sub bc of u. If u r forced out, I will immediately cancel & send U the 100 bux/yr. for access to ur opinions.
Not exactly brave to keep taking the dude’s money knowing this clear agenda. Nobody should subscribe, buy, or work for WaPo anymore if they claim to not be part of that
I canceled the day after the election, feeling even better about it now. Given the text of Bezos' email, some mischievous pundit should chronicle instances of conflict between free markets and personal liberties. Because if there weren't examples out there, there'd be no such thing as the EPA.
There were two times when subscribers cancelled their subscriptions in droves. When Bezos killed the Harris endorsement, then when Bezos killed Ann Telnaes brilliant cartoon of him supplicating before Krasnov.
The active suppression of the white washing of MSNBC in the military on the network news the mainstream Media is full-blown censorship.. I think we were all assuming that that was happening over there with him anyway
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Ratings and Losing subscribers in equal measure is the ONLY thing that will move the needle.
The Century of the Self.
Keep in up, Bezos, and watch that money disappear, as advertisers won't be far behind.
What’s that old adage? “They came for Y, but I was not Y, so I did not speak out”?
Use alternative US media. Use non-US media.
Don't reward the complicit and the enablers with clicks and ratings. Fuck them.
#boycottmusk #boycottbezos #boycottzuck
Different times, then. I was straight out of high school. In those days, paper-of-record stood for something
I am in a state of shock that so many of my friends still empower our slide into a dictatorship.
#BLOCKWAPO
Merely bitching about them is not going to send a message.
And anyone who hasn't unsubscribed to everything Bezos is doing it wrong.
https://bsky.app/profile/merryrobin.bsky.social/post/3lj3n2w26es2s
I expect worse for WaPo
I’ve basically forgotten about WaPo already. It’s not so hard really . 🤷♂️
Go figure.
https://bsky.app/profile/jeffstein.bsky.social/post/3lj3oxbv7ec27
I already cancelled my audiobooks and have not ordered from amazon since 1/1/25.
No more shopping at whole foods.
Why the fuck is he pretending to be a journalist?
Too much to ask because entitled liberals use all these services.
It is a nasty rotted food place.
https://go.bsky.app/6dCw92a
And I certainly don’t trust him nor anyone else at that rag now.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yc9DYN/
Whatever prestige once came with that brand has been replaced with whatever is the opposite of prestige. Taint.
One solid example of the obvious billionaire influence on their "reporting" from a few years ago:
https://fair.org/home/washington-post-ran-16-negative-stories-on-bernie-sanders-in-16-hours/
Why anyone continues the WaPo is beyond me.
Good to see some willing to risk their jobs to fight for same cause.
Too many unwilling to risk anything.
Looking at you: GOP in Congress.
Musk, Murdoch, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bannon, Jones, Theil, Pecker…
All Trump’s ideas Taken from Dictators He admires.
Happy face
https://rumble.com/v6oyw49-trump-maga-use-all-they-have-left-threats-for-refusing-their-lies.html
Now, if we could only focus on that.
Not so much
Why isn’t @jeffstein.bsky.social reporting on the multi-BILLION dollar racketeering lawsuit filed by #Amazon victim #BrianScranton against #JeffBezos and his gang of legal thugs?
Alleges #Bezos conspired with #GibsonDunn and #DOJ prosecutors to shake him down. 😵💫
c'mon, tell us !!
do we cancel our subs ?
do we stop linking to or boosting WaPo Content ?
@aoc.bsky.social
Please, please organize a gigantic March in DC. This budget resolution demands Americans marching in the streets. Not just locally but in DC. Please.
Meanwhile get a load of this —
#BoycottAmazon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/business/media/washington-post-bezos-shipley.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Moreover, even though …
“Mr. Bezos’ new focus echoes what has long been the informal tagline of The Wall Street Journal’s conservative opinion pages: “Free markets, free people” …
… the world of the tariff-besotted FOTUS doesn’t exactly include free markets either
I am sorry your bar became a Nazi bar, but that is what it is. It is home to traitors
Lies and more lies.
This will be painful for his voters and Trump will laugh all the way to the bank!
He's already counting the $$$ he will make from Gaza. Not how to help everyday Americans!
Now Bezos has killed the opinion page.
Grab some popcorn. Third times the charm.
Seems to be a trend today.