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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The New York Times has a long story today on Bezos & the Post. The takeaways:

1. He says the paper has to be profitable[/quote]

This is just a baldfaced lie and a sign of how arrogant he is to think that anyone would believe it. Nothing that he’s done, nothing, has been designed to increase the paper’s profitability. Because, of course, he doesn’t need it to be profitable. Like Musk with Twitter, he simply needs to control a major media outlet to control how things are covered, if at all. He profits from controlling the narrative, not selling ad space.

[quote]2. The editorial page is explicitly libertarian, and he doesn't care if you don't like it[/quote]

Yeah, this is the well-worn dodge that RWNJs go to when they want to avoid being labeled RWNJs.

[quote]3. He doesn't get involved in the news coverage at all[/quote]

:lol: Adorable.

[quote]4. He isn't going to sell the paper. He's rejected many offers to buy it from him. [/quote]

Of course he’s not going to sell. See 1 above.

[quote]I dunno. Doesn't really seem like a good reason to cancel your subscription. [/quote]

I dunno. For a capitalist with no ulterior motives, aren’t subscription cancellations precisely the sort of market feedback he’d want to inform his 100% good faith pursuit of profitability with which he is so genuinely concerned? And good news! The market has been speaking to him for years now. I look forward to his nimble pivot from his failed approach to date.

Unless, you know, he’s lying.[/quote]

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