Get fucked, Bezos.

  • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
    43·
    6 months ago

    The Post could lose all its subscribers and Bezos could still easily cover costs. He isn’t in the newspaper business for the money. He bought it for exactly moments like these. 8% is how much he just paid to hedge his bets

      • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee
        15·
        6 months ago

        Yeah I was being hyperbolic for effect, but the point is that he owns the WaPo so that he can use it for his own personal social and political gain, not to make money off of it. I doubt the WaPo readership will substantially drop from this. And I have many questions about the people who still read his rag

  • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 months ago

    Serious question, but what stops the editors and writers who feel differently from just telling him no and printing what they want?

    I understand he owns them and could fire them, but I think that would be more telling and a much bigger story internationally if he just fired or shut down WaPo for not doing his bidding rather than this subscriber loss being what we see. Journalists used to do real reporting and expose huge things (some still do), so if they actually feel this way about the candidate then they should’ve just printed what they wanted anyway.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      6 months ago

      Not much considering that’s what the entire editorial staff did anyway.

      But they don’t get to control the headline at the top of the front page.

      • WindyRebel@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        As I’m not in journalism, why couldn’t the most senior editor control the top headline and push out the views of the also believe the same?

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
    53·
    6 months ago

    The paradox: if, instead, 200,000 newcomers were to subscribe, the WaPo might be economically viable and then it could fire its owner.

    The WaPo is currently losing tens of millions of USD a year. That is not so much its fault as our fault. We are the ones who prefer to pay for Netflix and Amazon Prime than for quality journalism.