And they’ve brought in the guy who destroyed Tumblr to finish the job.
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I think the best take on this is from Martin Baron, who knows quite a bit, given his former position. The murder wasn’t perpetrated this week, but back when Bezos decided that the post shouldn’t endorse, and change its opinion page to match Bezos’ actual opinions. That economically killed the paper, and made it lose so much value that it stopped being a prestige purchase. If you aren’t going to be doing serious investigation of the White House, or be even remotely rough on power… it’s not the Washington Post any more than whatever company labels itself Atari this week is actually the old Atari.
The options were to just turn it into what it used to be, and use it as a weapon, or just regret the purchase and try to make it not lose money, even though the direction from above basically guarantees nobody cares about most of the reporting. And we know the first wasn’t happening. Hell, would journalists have believed Bezos after what he did for the last year and a half?
Nah, the cuts are normal, because it’s now a bad rag, like many other local newspapers. The cuts are reasonable, because there was no way the Post was worth anything when it has the same editorial direction as The Free Press (which is also not worth anything)
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And they’ve brought in the guy who destroyed Tumblr to finish the job.
I think the best take on this is from Martin Baron, who knows quite a bit, given his former position. The murder wasn’t perpetrated this week, but back when Bezos decided that the post shouldn’t endorse, and change its opinion page to match Bezos’ actual opinions. That economically killed the paper, and made it lose so much value that it stopped being a prestige purchase. If you aren’t going to be doing serious investigation of the White House, or be even remotely rough on power… it’s not the Washington Post any more than whatever company labels itself Atari this week is actually the old Atari.
The options were to just turn it into what it used to be, and use it as a weapon, or just regret the purchase and try to make it not lose money, even though the direction from above basically guarantees nobody cares about most of the reporting. And we know the first wasn’t happening. Hell, would journalists have believed Bezos after what he did for the last year and a half?
Nah, the cuts are normal, because it’s now a bad rag, like many other local newspapers. The cuts are reasonable, because there was no way the Post was worth anything when it has the same editorial direction as The Free Press (which is also not worth anything)