Get fucked, Bezos.

  • Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass

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    23 days 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.

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      23 days 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.

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        23 days 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?

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    24 days ago

    Who tf was subscribed to that rag and was somehow not aware it was Bezos’ propaganda factory? Or were they aware of it and just now decided to draw the line?

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    24 days 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.