At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Alexandra Bruell.
A loss of 100 million is significant to most, but not bezos.
What’s stopping all of these journalists that are leaving in protest from starting a journalism cooperative and splitting their work amongst themselves and taking votes on what should and should not be included in the news?
Money.
How were The Onion writers able to buy their publication back? Was it just dirt cheap?
Divide and conquer. By destroying large journalistic institutions, or converting them into voice boxes for nationalistic propaganda and policiy, the criticism of large corporate and governmental institutions becomes diluted and harder to find. The eventual plan is probably to use the dissolution of net neutrality to heavily limit access to dissenting voices from independent journalists and/or just people making dissenting content, effectively shadow banning anyone who poses a threat to the state and corporate power, while also preventing potential future rival voices and political parties from gaining a foothold in the minds of the populace at large.
We’re going need a army of Lugi’s. When do we get started. Revolution is needed instead we are rolling fast into a nightmare version of 1984.
Ryan grim and the intercept’s co founder just started something, “Drop site” IIRC.
Also, I think “Semafor” might be a sort of gathering place forming for folks wanting a better way. https://www.semafor.com/article/10/18/2022/what-is-a-semaform-anyway-and-why-should-you-care
I had no idea this was already in motion, thank you.
Wish bezos would choke on a fat dick
Glad to hear it. Let’s hope the trend continues.
Loyal dogs of empire euthanised after they stop being useful.
It’s actually the opposite. They’re leaving, because they’re not loyal to the empire. They’re loyal more or less to the truth.
The article surmises some kind of surprise on Bezos’s part that it is losing money, or that people are leaving, but I don’t think that surprise is accurate. Bezos is many things but he’s not a moron about money. He bought the Post to do what he wants with it, not for it to make a profit, and now he’s bending it to his will as he’d planned to do. Some breakage, as he manipulates it, would be expected I would think.
After reading that, I suppose the WP is to Bezos as Twitter is to Musk.
It’s ok to run it into the ground, it’s a tool. The institutions will probably even survive
I won’t claim to know in detail what the plan is, but it seems realistic that destroying the things that let people communicate with each other and figure out the truth might be an explicit goal.
Then again, it could just be that they’re incapable of grasping the way these institutions function. No one at Amazon, presumably, has any kind of loyalty to a higher calling than “make me a trainload of money and I’ll give you some, and you can take it home.” Bezos at least might find it genuinely confusing if a bunch of people start quitting because the company is now doing evil stuff.
Maybe a little of each scenario, either way people loose
Why though? They’re all friends.
