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Did Jeff Bezos Just Kill Karl Marx On
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Posted By: RockyTCB, 2/27/2025 9:00:19 AM

Amazon founder and owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos announced Wednesday that change is coming to the paper’s opinion pages. Going forward, they will be supporting and defending the “two pillars” that are “right for America,” “personal liberties and free markets.” It was helpful for those who oppose the change to identify themselves as enemies of personal liberties and free markets. [snip] In fact, to a casual observer, it might seem as if Bezos had committed a felony by assaulting someone or had shot and killed Karl Marx, whose hostility to personal liberties and free markets has produced quite

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bpl40 2/27/2025 9:29:51 AM (No. 1904743)
If NYT were to adopt this 90% of their content will vanish.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 2/27/2025 10:05:14 AM (No. 1904768)
Apparently trying to make the ComPost into something other than a Communist propaganda outlet. What an interesting idea, a pro-free market and pro-individual freedom newspaper. It's not been done in quite a while in the DC area, at least.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 2/27/2025 10:53:50 AM (No. 1904798)
RE the Post's current readership "not merely a trade journal for left-leaning U.S. government employees". Maybe Bezos recognizes that once Trump finishes personnel cuts, those government employees are going to be far fewer and the ones that remain are going to recognize that the tone of the current WaaPoo is poison. Once their funding is cut off, there are also going to be far fewer NGOs to read Bezos' paper. He needs a new audience. AND he needs NOT to be a target for Trump's ire, because every media source that has drawn Trump's fire ends up as an extra crispy critter. There are a lot of weepy leftist media "talents" trying to figure out how to replace multimillion dollar salaries in an imploding liberal market. The thing is, given the rabidly liberal staff he currently has, he can't pull this off. Even people who "capitulate" to the new reality will not be happy campers and will not produce good work product. He will have to gut his personnel and rebuild with strong moderate or conservative talent, top to bottom. Plus the problem of, do you want to work in a big confining organization or would you rather be independantly podcasting? Conservatives also tend to be entrepreneurial, so putting them in a big paper box may be difficult. Dead tree media may not be the model for the future. The model may be to contract with a stable of independents to deliver regular content and variety. All in all, Bezos is dealing with more than the tone of his paper. He will need to consider what communication looks like in the 21st century.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Venturer 2/27/2025 12:44:28 PM (No. 1904889)
The Washington Post or any other paper who have people who would quit because of this is much better off without those people.
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