Everyone, please comment on Bezos' piece in WaPo!

[Anonymous]

"I wish we had made the change earlier than we did, in a moment further from the election and the emotions around it. That was inadequate planning, and not some intentional strategy."


This sounds like all kinds of b******* if they wanted to do it further from the election, they could have done it further from the election .......after this election. There's no reason they needed the policy for this particular election.

If the principal is the important thing and it's also important that it be done a certain amount of time away from the election date, then they could have done that by not endorsing a candidate in the next presidential election instead of this one.

[Anonymous]

I don’t believe this for a second. He’s hedging because he fears retribution if Trump is elected. It’s completely transparent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found it compelling.

As he states, the media profession is the least trusted of all. Below Congress.

+1

[Anonymous]

Best comment from Reddit:

“Losing 200,000 subs to appeal to people who do not read anything, ever, for any reason. What a f#cking donkey.”

This is how you know it was a quid pro quo and Bezos is full of crap. Those people Bezos is trying to supposedly attract will never read the WaPo.

[Anonymous]

Bezos should give it up. The coverup is always worse than the crime.

[Anonymous]

hard to accept he didn't know the election was *checks notes* next week.

[Anonymous]

I think he makes great points that ring true to me in terms of bias of and trust in mass media, however the timing is a bit dubious. I don't plan to suddenly start reading wapo tomorrow.

-trump voter

[Anonymous]

wow! has there ever been a better indication of the BIAS in MSM than these reactions by WAPO journalists and WAPO readers?

clearly educated elites own WAPO and expect “their” type of reporting.

usually only pro-globalist, pro-immigration, and anti-worker columns.

confirmation of their exceptionalism and brilliance.

And contempt for US working class

[Anonymous]

Hopefully he can have some fox news and maybe daily wire reporter write for the post to balance out the left wing echo chamber. All of the reporters for wapo are far left look at their Twitter feeds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t believe this for a second. He’s hedging because he fears retribution if Trump is elected. It’s completely transparent.

My Pillow Guy, is that you???

So sick of people treating surmise and supposition as though they were evidence.

You’re as much a part of the problem as the MAGA nutters.

[Anonymous]

The timing is just too suspect to believe any of it. The Post has been publishing endorsements in local elections. It just decided to take a no endorsement stance less than 2 weeks before election after the endorsement had been written?

A change in policy had obviously not been in discussion. Making an announcement like this needed to be done at the beginning of the year or shortly after the conventions. Some people might have been upset but most subscribers would have met it with general disinterest and it would have been a non story.

[Anonymous]

New organizations should never endorse anyone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think he makes great points that ring true to me in terms of bias of and trust in mass media, however the timing is a bit dubious. I don't plan to suddenly start reading wapo tomorrow.

-trump voter

And yet... Bezos thought he'd win you over with his middle school English essay!

He really should stick to cardboard boxes, that man. And he's entitled enough to say "we" when referring to journalists! The comments on his piece are at 6K+ and they're ripping him apart.

[Anonymous]

Well well well...how the turntables

I never thought I'd see the day that DCUM turned on the WaPo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think he makes great points that ring true to me in terms of bias of and trust in mass media, however the timing is a bit dubious. I don't plan to suddenly start reading wapo tomorrow.

-trump voter

And yet... Bezos thought he'd win you over with his middle school English essay!

He really should stick to cardboard boxes, that man. And he's entitled enough to say "we" when referring to journalists! The comments on his piece are at 6K+ and they're ripping him apart.

He owns WaPo. How is it entitled to say "we" when speaking on behalf of his company and employees?