Trump needs to lose still. But if Bezos is thinking of a Trump win we need to think about news in a Trump America. Wash. Po bends the knee before Trump is even President so it’s not going to be independent anymore.
And if Post isn’t independent anymore pre-Trump, then it won’t ever be independent moving forward.
Bezos is safe in any case. His actual money is in Amazon, not WashPo. This move to cancel is purely based on news and trust. I have no expectations that Jeff Bezos gives a shit about my subscription (or anyone else’s for that matter)
There are worse actors than Wash Po. Twitter for example is far worse but is continuing to survive off the back of Elon Musk enormous wealth. It’s seriously not looking good for media moving forward.
But that’s also why we are here on Lemmy. A little rebellion of our own away from Reddit / Twitter / Facebook.
Not yet.
Trump needs to lose still. But if Bezos is thinking of a Trump win we need to think about news in a Trump America. Wash. Po bends the knee before Trump is even President so it’s not going to be independent anymore.
And if Post isn’t independent anymore pre-Trump, then it won’t ever be independent moving forward.
Bezos is safe in any case. His actual money is in Amazon, not WashPo. This move to cancel is purely based on news and trust. I have no expectations that Jeff Bezos gives a shit about my subscription (or anyone else’s for that matter)
There are worse actors than Wash Po. Twitter for example is far worse but is continuing to survive off the back of Elon Musk enormous wealth. It’s seriously not looking good for media moving forward.
But that’s also why we are here on Lemmy. A little rebellion of our own away from Reddit / Twitter / Facebook.
Newspaper media is the small fry today.