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Bezos OpEd: “Americans don’t trust the news media”

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1 hour ago, RiotAct said:

who is “Finding”?  I hear references to he/her/they/them a lot on here… old PPP member that went bye bye or something?

It's a stupid thing our friend NCBillsFan, a/k/a Deranged Rhino's Ghost, thinks is hilarious. It comes from me pointing out the QAnon accent in many of his posts (the old Deranged Rhino devoted 600+ pages to his "QAnon Analysis"), hence Finding QAnon, then Finding.

Oh, he claims to "ignore" me, so one might ask why he keeps mentioning me. 
Now you know.

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5 hours ago, SydneyBillsFan said:

No sh1t Sherlock Bezos.

 

But it's about eight years too late.

 

Prepare for your extinction - and you have nobody to blame but yourself!!

It's similar to the confession from Zuckeberg on Facebook censorship. But my guess is these statements are motivated by self-interest hedging your bets on the outcome of the election acts and should not be interpreted as a pledge to assume a more objective posture.

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A blatant example of outright reliable media lying.

 

This stuff happens constantly.

 

The only thing reliable about the entire game is that useful idiots like Finding, The King and Quack will swallow the lies and defend them.

 

Let me give you an example of how dishonest the Washington Post is. The problem isn't that social media is depriving them of attention, as Bezos suggests. The problem is that they lie. Nothing will change unless they fire everyone and start over.

 

On December 9, 2016, when President Obama announced that he had commissioned an Intelligence Community Assessment to investigate the 2016 election, the Washington Post published an article reporting that the assessment had begun.

 

A few hours later, the Washington Post stealthily edited not only the headline but also the entire article, including the names of its authors. The URL remained unchanged.

 

Suddenly, the Washington Post claimed to know the outcome of the assessment, specifically asserting that Putin had orchestrated Trump's election. Recall that, according to the Washington Post's own reporting just a few hours earlier, the assessment had only just begun.

 

How did this happen? It is almost certain that corrupt intelligence officials were dissatisfied with the original article's straightforward reporting. They needed to preemptively sabotage Trump's presidency, so they ordered the Washington Post to revise the article, this time incorporating the intelligence community's preferred narrative. Despite being aware that the assessment had only just begun, the Washington Post was more than willing to comply. They promoted the intelligence community's narrative, which they knew, at the very least, to be premature and likely recognized to be false.

 

You can see the two different versions of the article below. Please note that these are not two separate articles. One is the original, while the other was inserted in place of the original a few hours later.

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8 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

It's a stupid thing our friend NCBillsFan, a/k/a Deranged Rhino's Ghost, thinks is hilarious. It comes from me pointing out the QAnon accent in many of his posts (the old Deranged Rhino devoted 600+ pages to his "QAnon Analysis"), hence Finding QAnon, then Finding.

Oh, he claims to "ignore" me, so one might ask why he keeps mentioning me. 
Now you know.

I always wondered that..I just figured it was because he’s such a dumb as s.

 He does the same thing to me, pretends to have me on ignore but he always knows what I’m posting. Whatever makes him happy. 

Bezos is why people don’t trust the media. He killed his company’s endorsement of Harris because he didn’t want to lose govt contracts if trump wins. That is so easy to see through just like his editorial piece. The la times owner not only killed his papers endorsement of Harris but a series of articles that was supposed to run this week on what to not vote for trump. None of it really matters, trump is going to lose in a landslide.

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8 hours ago, The Frankish Reich said:

It's a stupid thing our friend NCBillsFan, a/k/a Deranged Rhino's Ghost, thinks is hilarious. It comes from me pointing out the QAnon accent in many of his posts (the old Deranged Rhino devoted 600+ pages to his "QAnon Analysis"), hence Finding QAnon, then Finding.

Oh, he claims to "ignore" me, so one might ask why he keeps mentioning me. 
Now you know.

The bigger issue here would seem to be with Bezos. Perhaps a strongly worded letter suggesting he offer a mea culpa for speaking his truth is in order. 

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2 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

The bigger issue here would seem to be with Bezos. Perhaps a strongly worded letter suggesting he offer a mea culpa for speaking his truth is in order. 

You mean that he was afraid of losing govt contracts if trump gets elected? That is his truth.

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39 minutes ago, 4th&long said:

I always wondered that..I just figured it was because he’s such a dumb as s.

 He does the same thing to me, pretends to have me on ignore but he always knows what I’m posting. Whatever makes him happy. 

Bezos is why people don’t trust the media. He killed his company’s endorsement of Harris because he didn’t want to lose govt contracts if trump wins. That is so easy to see through just like his editorial piece. The la times owner not only killed his papers endorsement of Harris but a series of articles that was supposed to run this week on what to not vote for trump. None of it really matters, trump is going to lose in a landslide.

Why would “government contracts” matter to a free and independent press?  At the same time, are you suggesting that the editorial board tilted to Biden/Harris (and other presidential candidates in the past) in order to benefit financially? 
 

Bezos recognizes the fundamental problem in play here.  It’s really that simple.  

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41 minutes ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

Why would “government contracts” matter to a free and independent press?  At the same time, are you suggesting that the editorial board tilted to Biden/Harris (and other presidential candidates in the past) in order to benefit financially? 
 

Bezos recognizes the fundamental problem in play here.  It’s really that simple.  

No. The editorial board always did what they thought was best. Bozos is worried about the bottom line. It’s really that simple. I really can’t believe you are asking why contracts would matter to the owner of the paper. That’s disingenuous at best.

 And we know all bozos owns is the Washington post, I’m sure he is not worried about how petty trump is and won’t hold it against Amazon, blue origin and whatever else he might own.

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Hey 4th just how many liters of drool do you collect on a daily basis?

 

You've got to be neck and neck with Finding.

 

For the 7,453rd time:

 

I only know what you post when someone QUOTES your post.

 

That's it. If you post something and it doesn't get quoted then I'll never see it.

 

I wish quoted posts were also covered by the ignore function, but they aren't.

 

Now thankfully if Finding quotes both you and bullstojan I won't see any of it.

 

I'd say that you're just pretending to not understand this simple concept, but your daily drool volume says otherwise.

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24 minutes ago, 4th&long said:

No. The editorial board always did what they thought was best. Bozos is worried about the bottom line. It’s really that simple. I really can’t believe you are asking why contracts would matter to the owner of the paper. That’s disingenuous at best.

So the editorial board has never made a decision based on the best interests of the newspaper or themselves?  Their collective personal bias never factored into the decisions?  
 

Your perspective is not disingenuous, it’s absurd. 
 

Btw, on the resignation of a couple board members…a couple of old timers resigned in disgust—disgust I tell you—but will continue working at the WaPo because while standards are important, so is the cash.  
 

This idea of newspaper endorsements is kind of silly to begin with.

 

Bezos has recognized frustration with the for-profit politicking  at places like the Post, realized it’s offputting for people who don’t need some dopey pipe smoking bureau chief (sponsored by AT&T) telling you what he thinks you can’t figure out yourself. 
 

 

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