Jeff Bezos, the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, announced that he would be taking the storied newspaper in a new direction.
  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The gall of these billionaires to just buy a news organization and then blatantly state “we’re not going to do news anymore” is just incredible.

    Even Rupert Murdock had the courtesy to come up with the Fox News “Fair and Balanced” slogan (even though it was completely full of shit).

    Bezos is just like “yeah we’re going full on propaganda, go fuck yourself.”

    • spamfajitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      3 months ago

      On the other end, you’ve got billionaire Jeff Lawson rescuing The Onion from private equity hell. I count their revived print subscription as one of the best things I’ve spent money on recently, considering it used to be free.