Initially, when Bezos bought it, reports out of WaPo were Bezos was only interested in digitization and such. Now, this election, he full bore wants Democracy to die in darkness.
For the younger crowd, WaPo wasn’t just an old newspaper, it famously broke the Watergate news that led to President Nixon’s resignation.
So Bezos killing this particular newspaper, especially on the eve of Authoritarianism, is more significant than with any of the other old school newspapers of our country.
I suppose in some ways it’s good in that it’s an open demonstration of how Presidents Musk & Trump are going to control the news that reaches our eyes going forward.
Jokes on them though. I get my news from a skeezy cast of streamers and podcasters most definitely bankrolled by the Kremlin.
I suppose in some ways it’s good in that it’s an open demonstration of how Presidents Musk & Trump are going to control the news that reaches our eyes going forward.
People will forget though…just like they forget about everything else and leave it out of their thoughts about anything moving forward (e.g. Citizen’s United, the 1/6/21 coup attempt, etc.).
According to conservatives it was no coup. I wish I was joking.
In some cases it’s not forgetting, it’s never encoding the information to memory on the day it happens.
They didn’t realize Bezos thinks “Democracy Dies In Darkness” is a GOAL.
I cancelled my Prime subscription today, after 15 years. Just don’t want to contribute to that man anymore. Fuckin sociopaths ruining the world.
I’ve been boycotting Amazon for over a decade on account of their shameless tax avoidance and evasion, the way they treat workers and even suppliers and the abuse of dark patterns on their website.
For those paying attention it’s been painfully for more than a decade that Bezos is a total sociopath with not a shred of Ethics or Morals.
This now is really just the emerging to visibility of another totally predicable natural reflection of that man’s sick sociopathic views when it comes to other human beings and entrenching of his top-parasite position in this society.
What’s taking you so long to stop directing this negative energy at other poor people?
The lack of respect for people who contributed voluntarily to making this system as it is.
That’ll do it. You inconveniencing your life will surely be worth it in the bigger picture.
Pictured here; 8 billion people all saying “I can’t make a difference, I’m just one person”
Never used Amazon, the website is trash, the filter sucks and the search sucks. It’s the worst designed shopping experience, looks like a ebay market but worse for some reason.
Besides most media or Newspaper companies/organizations are biased, it’s what they don’t write and how they skew the political news or events towards a certain narrative. They are all scumbags, media is by far the most responsible for the current state that the world is in.
And choice is an illusion, you support Amazon wether you like it or not - mostly indirectly.
Billionaires taking over one private major news outlet or social media platform at a time. Scary developments.
First time it’s happening so frequently that I’m aware of. 🤷♂️ I’m under 40, don’t live in America. I don’t blame myself for not knowing. Seems like I should be ashamed for not knowing though, or?
Throughout history wealthy people have always owned all media outlets and used them as their own private propaganda outlets.
I suppose you might believe in the “free” press or the “independent” media. Well those are just concepts and not reality.
I would suggest watching Good Night, and Good Luck to start to see modern journalism for what it is.
I stared at this way too long trying to figure out why it said “whatever you say, Mr Beast”
