Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of Bezos' move, the WashPo was a liberal paper and its readers identified as such. It's always a bold move to sack your readers. Ordinarily I'd assume Bezos worked off the data but this feels different - ThreadSky

robertshrimsley.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of Bezos' move, the WashPo was a liberal paper and its readers identified as such. It's always a bold move to sack your readers. Ordinarily I'd assume Bezos worked off the data but this feels different

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katephyre.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This isn’t about readership it’s about shutting down all criticism of billionaires.

padsky.bsky.social•22 hours ago

So rich he doesn't care about the readers, apart from 1. It's his platform to engage POTUS and broader stakeholders?

datadiva.bsky.social•22 hours ago

WaPo isn't a money making venture for Bezos, it's a hobby. The billionaire equivalent of running a lemonade stand. It has far more value to him as a way to gain political favor that effects Amazon and AWS than getting money from the paper.

cllrandyoddy.bsky.social•18 hours ago

He can afford to close what amounts to a liberal left wing mouthpiece - pennies to him relatively speaking. Not so much of a sacrifice to shut off a channel critical of him and his kind.

thetabletopmisfits.bsky.social•21 hours ago

It was a paper that reported the TRUTH. Now if that was liberal, then you know where the lies are coming from.

scottsuhy.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I thought https://Perplexity.ai's response was accurate and fitting...

kevinmitchell50.bsky.social•22 hours ago

And the “rights” in the “rights and wrongs” that we’re leaving aside, they were what, exactly?

countrywol.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Which new readers are going to pay for news? I tell you who this will benefit, and he's staring at you from a mirror!!

carloapostoli.ft.com•22 hours ago

Similarly to Musk with Twitter, economic sense or success doesn’t seem to factor in their decision making. He could run it into the ground and it wouldn’t make a difference for him

outragefatigue.bsky.social•22 hours ago

At this point TEMU seems about as Democratic as Amazon and Meta.

jackcarterbenjamin.bsky.social•22 hours ago

WaPo is abandoning its extant audience of leftists in favor of a right-wing audience that barely exists among American newspaper readers.

The overlap between pro-Trump supporters and people willing to pay for a WaPo subscription is very slim.

bex7860.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Maybe he sees it as becoming the FOX of print
Everyone else at least pretended to be "neutral", FOX swung for the fences with pro trump/hate and their viewers needed a place to go for that
Only they did
Now WaPo can fill that in print

sabinaandkelly.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Just canceled my subscription with a heavy heart.

sdbwarnedyou.bsky.social•22 hours ago

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•2 hours ago

It’s sweet when newspapermen persist in pretending that oligarch newspaper owners weren’t just buying newspapers to promote their own views, all along

robertshrimsley.bsky.social•2 hours ago

On the contrary - he appears to be using it to promote someone else's view

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Even sweeter that you think an oligarch doesn’t genuinely believe 1. free markets are amazing 2. free markets are under promoted in the market place of ideas.

robertshrimsley.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Oligarchs don't generally believe in free markets otherwise they would not be oligarchs. But sweet of you to notice my sweetness.

theangelofhistory.bsky.social•2 hours ago

They don’t believe in your fantasy version of “free markets” but the term definitely has a meaning in the context Bezos uses it and that meaning is closer to reality (low or no taxes, no regulations, no employment laws) than anything you’ve ever said it means.

richvivv.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Another reminder that these multi-billionaires are really not very bright. A gentle hand on the tiller, an occasional alternative viewpoint and he's influencing the left elite. Alienate all of your readers and he's shouting in a vacuum.

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