"This is not about personal liberties or free markets. It’s about making the Post more amenable to the Trump administration so that Jeff Bezos’s businesses will not be punished."
~ Jonathan V. Last
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/9
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Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.Jonathan V. Last (The Bulwark)
"When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for billionaire babble.
When they talk of 'personal liberties and free markets' they mean their own liberties to become even richer and more powerful, as the rest of America slides into greater economic insecurity and fear."
~ Robert Reich
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump #oligarchy
/8
"The Opinions section is being told what their opinions are to be, from now on. And they seem to align with current thinking by the Trump regime’s current scumbag leaders. …
From a very quick survey by me of Wapo staffers: This is the worst thing to happen to The Washington Post ever in its 147 year life, including the Janet Cooke scandal."
~ Gene Weingarten
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/5
"The message could not be clearer: editorial independence is dead at the Washington Post. Opinion editor David Shipley, recognizing this fact, has already resigned rather than oversee this ideological narrowing. ...
Democracy dies in darkness? No, it dies when billionaires decide they want their media properties to serve their personal ideological agendas rather than the public interest."
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/4
"The audacity of claiming that free market ideas are 'underserved' in American media is staggering. Has Bezos somehow missed the existence of The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, Fox Business, CNBC, and countless other outlets that have spent decades championing free-market capitalism?"
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/3
"In a stunning announcement today, Jeff Bezos declared that The Washington Post's opinion section will now exclusively focus on 'personal liberties and free markets.' …
Today's announcement takes things to an entirely new level of billionaire meddling."
~ Parker Molloy
#WashingtonPost #Bezos #MediaFailure #capitulation #EconomicElites #billionaires #Musk #Trump
/2
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With its new "free markets and personal liberties" mandate, democracy dies not in darkness but in billionaire ideologyParker Molloy (The Present Age)
To pull a Bezos: to sell oneself out to someone only to be kicked in the teeth by them.
Couldn’t have happened to a smarter person. Like literally, almost anyone paying attention with a modicum of intelligence would have known acquiescence would earn them nothing but scorn.
h/t @amberwavesofflame
#fec #WashingtonPost #trump #bezos #USpol
We want to support the journalists; so boycott Amazon and encourage Bezos to sell the Washington Post to someone who gives a shit.
Washington Post writers say don’t dump subscriptions over non-endorsement
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Fears for effect on jobs at newspaper owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos that declined to back a presidential candidateEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
