Nobody ever tells me what I can and can’t write, which is why independent media is surging and media controlled by billionaire oligarchs is not. My success or failure is determined by the readers, not by a guy circling the globe in an obscene yacht.
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Then they should pre-write how they are gonna get screwed worse than we will. Bankruptcy, Fraud and whatever other charges your orange boss isn't man enough to take.
The mask is off on new corporate media. If an outlet is funded by anything other than “the people” then its purpose is clear. Every entity that does what you do has bills to pay and they will serve who pays them.
Just saddened seeing the demise of once-elite sources of journalism. Feels like it's just a steady stream of media taking the both sides-ing approach and/or turning into Fox Lite now.
It’s bought and paid for.
Gutless worms are feeding off of the still warm corpse of America that when she was living American Veterans used to protect with their lives.
That’s what’s wrong. Our military died protecting this. I will do the same as a citizen. Who’s with me?
Cancel Amazon
Cancel your capitulating news Media subscriptions
Cancel buying things from advertisers who support X
If you do nothing else, do this.
Don’t spend money.
If your materialism is greater than your need for public good, then hold on, here comes your prize…
Very true! There is also the problem of determining what is actually "news" vs "opinion". If someone is breaking a story, state the facts correctly and accurately to allow your readers to make their own opinions. Misguided writing serves no purpose.
I canceled my digital subscription years ago because I didn’t read enough to justify the cost. Many more cancelled recently when Bezos didn’t allow an endorsement for Harris. This has got to be the death knell for the paper.
Is it realistic to ask; So with all the people being, 'Let go," and or, "Fired," from MMM -- Is it realistic for those of you that happened to band together and create your own media outlet?
Stop using Amazon. Cancel your Prime membership. Buy your goods locally or from the manufacturers site. You may have to wait a couple of days to receive it but may be cheaper. This is a minor inconvenience vs losing our democracy. The most powerful voice in America is your wallet, use it now.
And that’s why I stopped subscribing to the Washington Post. It was pretty telling when Democracy Dies in Darkness was made equal to Riveting storytelling for all of America
Before everyone with integrity leaves, could someone write about the government bailing out the banks after the 2008 financial crisis and what that had to do with the free market?
Bezos travels with a second support yacht named Abeona alongside his main yacht, Koru.
• Main Yacht: Koru: A 417-foot sailing yacht valued at approximately $500 million. It is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world but cannot easily navigate small ports or quays due to its size.
• Support Yacht: Abeona: A 246-foot vessel costing $75 million. It serves as a “shadow yacht” for Koru, carrying additional provisions, equipment, and crew. It includes a helipad, hangar, and garages for smaller boats and jet skis and can accommodate up to 65 people, including medical personnel.
• Purpose: The support yacht enhances Koru’s operations by housing toys (e.g., tenders, jet skis), handling maintenance tasks, and providing logistical support. This allows the main yacht to remain less cluttered and more focused on guest comfort.
The editors should write editorials about how oligarchs are limiting free speech in newspapers and hurting the free market with their monopolizing practices and policies. That would satisfy the 'guidelines'.
We canceled our decades-long daily subscription to @washingtonpost.com a few years ago when Bezos took it in a right-wing direction.
It was sad, but we couldn’t support it any longer.
"...it was always going to end like this. Two men, each believing themselves the master of the universe,each certain they could outmaneuver the other. But symbiosis in the world of authoritarian ambition is never permanent and fascism, like a snake devouring its own tail, always ends in betrayal..."
"In Trump's grand return to power, he needed more than just a compliant Congress and a rubber stamping Supreme Court- he needed a weapon, a sledgehammer that could bludgeon through the last remnants of the so-called "deep state", while keeping his hands clean. That weapon was Elon Musk..."
Bezos is just making explicit what everyone should have known for years now. Large media companies are BUSINESSES with SHAREHOLDERS who will do whatever they need to do in order to stay PROFITABLE. Ethical journalism has had little place in the C Suite for quite some time now!
And oligarchs own the internet. No one remembers the time that radio & newspapers were also controlled by oligarchs, in first part of 20th century but our democracy changed that. Now, back to square one!!
The guy who runs the world's biggest retail oligopoly is gonna lecture us on free markets, lol, the hypocrisy is mind-numbing! Please break up Amazon, FTC!!! C'mon already, end this nightmare for America
The first amendment is now called “a service.” Evidently of a bygone era when skinny jeans and knee high boots were all the rage and people rode electric scooters all over the place, to every sane person’s chagrin
Just like Trump’s buddy Orban of Hungary did. Trump’s Billionaire Loyalists spread His Lies, Conspiracy Theories, Lawlessness and they attempt to Normalize Him and his Cruelty.
State TV‼️
Musk, Murdoch, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bannon, Thiel, Pecker…..
This. Is. Not. Normal.
It's all code for "deregulation" which is just Republican for "take away the consumer protections that make it illegal to rip people off and harm them for profit"
B 4 early fascist steps r completed, I wd luv 2 c the blue & swing state, govs dissolve their ntnl guards. Do this b 4 they can be federalized & used against them. They can reinstitute them as new state, militias 10 minutes later. This would kp the Nazis from their endgame. It’s textbook 2nd amend.
Bezos piece should’ve just said, “we’re going to lie for dump. Later, we’ll probably lie for someone else.” Or, “Big news, we’ve joined the Nazi news network! That’s right, we’re the new Box News, in print form.”
The billionaire oligarchs hv the same integrity as the new Republican Party. That is to say none at all. 4 the sake of making 20 billion dollars 40 billion $, they gladly make deals with the devil. How many billions do you need to satisfy your insecure ego? Integrity is priceless. try it sometime.
Oligarch media is simply corporate communications for robber barons. The Washington Post, NY Times, et al. had their day but that day is done. They can no longer be trusted.
Not began! It is now engulfing many Mass media giants! NBC now going all in on denialism & avoidance of the Chaotic MADNESS OF Our Federal Government ! After having fired or removed from air time many people not WHITE.
Soon changing its name to "The Washington Pravda". Only certain viewpoints are worth considering. Confirms I was right to cancel my subscription before the election.
I think we have had enough of rich people talking down to us. This reads like a reminder that you should cancel your Washington Post subscription since it is state run now.
If Bezos is saying that the internet has replaced his paper in providing illuminating editorial content, why is that? And has he shut down his editorial board? That is wimpy given his paper's location.
These people live fucking fantasy lives and plan to take every penny from us in order to sustain their wasteful disgusting pointless existences. Parasites. We need to stop feeding them.
That is the key! We
Need 2 stop giving them our money, & Information. Boycott all of them!
Amazon-Whole Foods Market=Bezos.
Meta-Instagram-WhatsApp-Oculus VR= Zuckerberg.
X- SpaceX-Starlink-Tesla = Musk.
Google -Alphabet conglomerate=Larry page-Sergey Brin &
Sundar Pichai.
It can be done!
Jeff Bezos controls The Washington Post’s opinion page, but on Feb 28th, we make our voices louder. No spending at Amazon, Whole Foods, or his businesses.
This is a stand against billionaires controlling our media and democracy.
"Personal liberties" and the "free market" are two things this administration will destroy, which begs the question... Will they actually be defending these things, or will it just be propaganda telling us all could be great if only the wealthy had a little more wealth and power...
Bezos is backing trump's attack on personal liberties and free markets, and at the same time profiting from readers who hold these principles dear to them.
Meanwhile, Beeswax Bezos is supporting an Administration destroying personal liberties and free markets.
Trump is talking about nationalizing another country's mineral rights, and using the power of the government to commit a crime against humanity to make him a private real estate deal.
What's obscene is that these guys, while on the road to their riches, benefit from all the goods and services taxes has produced in this country. Then, once they make it, they are suddenly against paying taxes.
It’s quite shocking really. How these oligarchs are so willing to simply toe the line. Just like Nazi Germany. They say fascism appeals to the aristocracy of the day and the working man with a grievance.
Oligarchs do not toe the line, they create it! Their vision of greed at all and any costs creates the conditions of extreme poverty and provides a platform where useful fools like Trump can spout their bile, divide communities and generate more wealth for the few, while blaming others for their lot!
I do understand your view but a glance through history tells you oligarchs attach themselves to whatever suits them as expedient and they tend to co-opt other peoples ideas and beliefs to suit their business agenda. Even when they don’t agree if full they bend the knee in the often mistaken belief
They are the ones who can control the situation through their wealth and power. Putin and others before him, Hitler especially have proven how that can go wrong if you dare step out of line.
This is so sad. As a former journalist who wrote for a paper and was proud of it, I'm beyond disheartened to see journalism have deteriorated into this oligarchy-muzzled cesspool.
To quote a talented Ukrainian reporter: "One is killing Ukraine and one is blackmailing Ukraine" .....Thank you - this is NOT complicated and perfectly understood!
“Free markets.” JFC. The third richest man on the world wants to shove free market propaganda down our throats, just what we need. Man you sell books Jeff maybe read The Jungle
Your daily reminder to defund Billionaires. Also, he paid $250,000,000 for the Post, seems like if enough people got together they could have prevented it.
Wapo bankruptcy incoming. Subscribers don't want to read pro-oligarchy propaganda. The upside is this has the potential to be a golden age for indy journalists. A well-deserved fall for a paper that was so quiet in the face of the Gaza Genocide.
They still can’t comprehend that MAGA is only 30-35% of the population. They would rather alienate the majority. He should talk to Target about how well that has worked for them recently.
Yeah, but the WaPo is just a hobby for him. The real money is in Amazon…..that’s were we can hurt him the most.
Shop in person, and if you do shop online, don’t use Amazon
'Free markets' - that's where billionaire broligarchs receive billions in state subsidies and contracts, whilst being allowed to pay next to nothing in tax?
We kinda knew that you had made the @washingtonpost.com into your personal propaganda organ, Jeffy, but thanks for validating. Poor billionaires. No one ever sticks up for them. What about their rights!
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Murdoch and Musk are both unvetted immigrants who should be sent back where they came from.
Darkness
The owner of what said what?
There was a time when institutions like Washington Post stood for something.
When Bezos says “internet”, he means independent journalists doing the job, shining light to ensure Democracy.
WaPo
Autocracy Thru Complicity
It’s bought and paid for.
Gutless worms are feeding off of the still warm corpse of America that when she was living American Veterans used to protect with their lives.
That’s what’s wrong. Our military died protecting this. I will do the same as a citizen. Who’s with me?
Cancel Amazon
Cancel your capitulating news Media subscriptions
Cancel buying things from advertisers who support X
If you do nothing else, do this.
Don’t spend money.
If your materialism is greater than your need for public good, then hold on, here comes your prize…
• Main Yacht: Koru: A 417-foot sailing yacht valued at approximately $500 million. It is one of the largest sailing yachts in the world but cannot easily navigate small ports or quays due to its size.
It was sad, but we couldn’t support it any longer.
The things he has cancelled are what I went for
So, propaganda that benefits the extremely wealthy but firing up the ignorant base.
“We want to have neutrality, so we won’t endorse”
“Also these things are explicitly our values.”
Evil doesn’t die, it re-invents itself.
State TV‼️
Musk, Murdoch, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Bannon, Thiel, Pecker…..
This. Is. Not. Normal.
Otherwise economic power inevitably becomes more and more concentrated in fewer and fewer hands.
Competition is the result of properly regulated markets, not completely "free" ones.
It's all code for "deregulation" which is just Republican for "take away the consumer protections that make it illegal to rip people off and harm them for profit"
would paper survive? he could get new writers but ...
New WAPO: Here are the facts. Follow them.
Lick our collective balls. We will strip your precious WaPo of any credibility and worth. Also, eat shit. Thanks.
The epitome of HYPOCRISY & an outright LIE.
Ghost the Post AND Amazon.
We’re going to need a good Amazon alternative that everyone can switch to en masse! FTS!
Was only a matter of time before the propaganda began in earnest.
Need 2 stop giving them our money, & Information. Boycott all of them!
Amazon-Whole Foods Market=Bezos.
Meta-Instagram-WhatsApp-Oculus VR= Zuckerberg.
X- SpaceX-Starlink-Tesla = Musk.
Google -Alphabet conglomerate=Larry page-Sergey Brin &
Sundar Pichai.
It can be done!
This is a stand against billionaires controlling our media and democracy.
Money is their power. Taking it away is ours.
What a fucking asshole.
Trump is talking about nationalizing another country's mineral rights, and using the power of the government to commit a crime against humanity to make him a private real estate deal.
Did Russia tell people they were doing it like this or just do it without a written warning?
Surely he means MY opinion pages?🤔
Remember, they are rich because we buy their services.
What’s next? Amazon editorials on every box?
Where’s the new Teddy Roosevelt?
Your reply just earned you a new follow!
Bye bye Amazon
https://www.publico.pt/2025/02/26/mundo/noticia/governo-ucraniano-confirma-acordo-terras-raras-eua-2123964?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2HJSw1vqV6D2_alHOjwx1UpSMFfDxrffgmu9Cp_zmNG-qY_G_slEuPlFg_aem_l7ftNhP43Pw2Ai4cRPIHwg
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-amazon-no-walmart-no-fast-food-whats-behind-the-feb-28-economic-blackout-200849532.html
Shop in person, and if you do shop online, don’t use Amazon
I am homebound.
a failing WaPo seems fully justified & warranted
Enough bullshit is enough.
Now a propaganda tool.