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Should have never been sold to Bezos in the first place, for this reason.
Bezos has money coming out his fucking ass, but not enough to keep a newspaper running? Bullshit, this kind of killing blow is a choice, and that choice has a purpose, and that purpose is to remove access to information from the citizenry.
Simple enough to set up a perpetual purpose trust or something appropriate, with a couple billion in funding, to ensure that the paper continues to do its job. But instead, he’s got to get his sticky fingers all over it.
That's the only reason he bought it.
Democracy Dies in the Darkness of Bezos’ Brain
That doesn't make sense. He bought it so he could control the narrative. You can't do that if you kill the newspaper
If the staff won’t cooperate in controlling the narrative to your liking, you just remove the staff. If that kills the paper, so what? It wasn’t doing what you wanted anyway.
I hope this opens some eyes to see why billionaires have too much control.
If we are going to have to have capital (we don’t, but I don’t think Americans are entirely ready to hear that yet), capitalists shouldn’t be allowed into positions that allow this type of thing to go on unchecked.
There's a reason why most journalists are hated by elites but people like bari weiss are adored by then.
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”
Orwell understood that power and authoritarianism were the issue, not so much the supposed ideology underpinning the powerful.
Such a good quote.
Just replace human-generated content with AI slop.
It's not like you need journalists to regurgitate verbatim Republican talking points that are sent to you.
This is why billionaires shouldn't own news companies
Democracy dies ~~in darkness~~
Democracy died a long time ago.
The US wasn't really ever a true democracy anyways.
If I had to estimate it might be about three-fifths of a democracy on a good day
Yeah, I was implying that it's been dead for centuries 🙇🏽♂️
All men were created equal and yet in the US they've made it very clear they do not believe, whatsoever in this
Created? Nah. Lose that bedtime story BS. ✊🏼 We're only equal as livestock are —to them. Shake off their yokes. 🌈
We can't even decide what the fuck democracy is. Ask 100 Americans and they'll give you 100 answers. It's a meaningless emotion word for us.
Oh piss off with that BS.
Cue the MAGA crap of "We're a Republic!" type of stupidity.
Democracy dies ~~in darkness~~
Democracy Dies in Darkness
...Bezos: turns off the lights.
The Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, has spoken privately about finding a path to profitability for the Post by focusing the paper’s investment on politics and a few other key areas, while cutting back in areas like sports and foreign affairs.
The richest man in the world owns them. Who the fuck do they think they’re fooling?
"Thank you for attending the call. Today we will be discussing various methods for sucking billionaire's cocks. Please pay close attention. Your livelihood depends on it."
So weird to see all our old, respected media bend over and get ass rammed into meaninglessness. Well, whatever. So long WP.
Paywall?! CNN is delusional if they think anyone will pay to read their corporate propaganda.
I've been dodging it with Firefox's reader mode when I do want to read those
I’ve noticed many websites are throwing errors after scrolling a bit in reader mode. I’ve been dodging it by printing the page to pdf before it has a chance.
Smart trick. Also, then you have an archive of the article should the site decide to revise history at a later date.
Is this that darkness they've been warning us about?
Hello darkness my old friend
We're welcoming fascists here again.
We don’t want you here with your American guns when we say we are firing most of you.
Honestly, we need to get better about talented individuals in these industries having at least an idea floating around in their minds to rebuild a new 'insert company' when they pull this shit. Like, have it in your backpocket and be ready to act. The only thing that can stop this shit is to use those good reputations to create competitive products.
The problem with that is that these talented individuals don't have the capital to create those competitors.
Did Trump's people demand that he kill it? Maybe the Melania movie bribe wasn't enough, or maybe Trump's angry that people hate the movie and are making fun of it.
Too many woke lefties at the Post. They’ll staff up fully with excellent writers from Project Veritas and redstate.com.
So hard to be sure of sarcasm these days. If I find you're serious I will withdraw my upvote.
Rest assured it is /s
Probably couldn't care much less, IMHO. I think the project was just to keep her busy & distract her from shit like the Epstein files. He's too self-centered to actually GAF about even her.
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