"I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated," Ukraine correspondent Lizzie Johnson wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Has anybody ever wondered what it is Jeff Bezos eventually plans to do with WaPo?
I think this was probably in part another fuck you to any journalists who criticized him about the FBI raiding their colleague’s home (which honestly, find the likelihood he wasn’t somehow behind that slim to none), but also he’s probably been losing money for a while. And it kinda seems like he intentionally ran it into the ground in a very odd and spiteful way…
Idk even compared to other oligarch owned media outlets. Bezos bought WaPo in 2013, and for the most part he seemed largely hands off for nearly a decade. Then suddenly in 2024 he seemed to start aggressively asserting himself and just ran it into the ground.
Like he could have fired hundreds of people a long time ago and saved the money, or restaffed it, but he chooses to keep it going like his intention is to ruin its reputation as an American institution before he drives the stake through its heart.
Idk maybe I’m reading too much into it, but even aside from the Kyiv bureau being on the chopping block, when you’re thinking about who Trump really works for, who he just hung a picture of up in the White House last week, and what that person’s feelings are regarding America and Historic American institutions (especially ones that have had so many ties to different government agencies and diplomats) does it not seem obvious Bezos could have been instructed to make a show of humiliating the institution and publicly dragging it through the mud?
Has anybody ever wondered what it is Jeff Bezos eventually plans to do with WaPo?
I think this was probably in part another fuck you to any journalists who criticized him about the FBI raiding their colleague’s home (which honestly, find the likelihood he wasn’t somehow behind that slim to none), but also he’s probably been losing money for a while. And it kinda seems like he intentionally ran it into the ground in a very odd and spiteful way…
Idk even compared to other oligarch owned media outlets. Bezos bought WaPo in 2013, and for the most part he seemed largely hands off for nearly a decade. Then suddenly in 2024 he seemed to start aggressively asserting himself and just ran it into the ground.
Like he could have fired hundreds of people a long time ago and saved the money, or restaffed it, but he chooses to keep it going like his intention is to ruin its reputation as an American institution before he drives the stake through its heart.
Idk maybe I’m reading too much into it, but even aside from the Kyiv bureau being on the chopping block, when you’re thinking about who Trump really works for, who he just hung a picture of up in the White House last week, and what that person’s feelings are regarding America and Historic American institutions (especially ones that have had so many ties to different government agencies and diplomats) does it not seem obvious Bezos could have been instructed to make a show of humiliating the institution and publicly dragging it through the mud?