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


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1 hour ago, leh-nerd skin-erd said:

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. 
 

 

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Arguing about stuff is silly at this point. Of course you would side with him, blindly I might ad. This thing is over, it’s been fun arguing with you guys.

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1 hour ago, 4th&long said:

Whatever helps you sleep at night. Arguing about stuff is silly at this point. Of course you would side with him, blindly I might ad. This thing is over, it’s been fun arguing with you guys.

It's weird the things people think might keep others awake at night.  It's not Jeff Bezos, and it's certainly not some preachy newspaper editor who wouldn't give a **** about me one way or the other, except maybe to consider me deplorable or irredeemable because I don't think like they do.  

 

I worry about a commercial enterprise like the Washington Post at about the same level I worry about what;s shaking out at the local Taco Bell.  Though, yes, I think a move back towards the center and away from your preferred version of political activism is a good thing. 

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

It's weird the things people think might keep others awake at night.  It's not Jeff Bezos, and it's certainly not some preachy newspaper editor who wouldn't give a **** about me one way or the other, except maybe to consider me deplorable or irredeemable because I don't think like they do.  

 

I worry about a commercial enterprise like the Washington Post at about the same level I worry about what;s shaking out at the local Taco Bell.  Though, yes, I think a move back towards the center and away from your preferred version of political activism is a good thing. 

I would prefer everyone go back to the center a little. That won’t happen with trump. My political activism? LOL. Trolling you guys. If I was to tell you my name you would not find one political statement one way or the other on any account. Entertainment on here is it. I honestly don’t care who wins because this country is ***** either way. 

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3 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Please.

As for Bezos: Am I alone in thinking that this trillionaire (well, he would've been but for an ill-timed affair and divorce) will restore our faith in the news media?

You’ve been a staunch defender of the reliable mainstream news media as-is. Why does faith need to be restored? What has happened to make you think this?

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1 minute ago, 4th&long said:

I would prefer everyone go back to the center a little. That won’t happen with trump. My political activism? LOL. Trolling you guys. If I was to tell you my name you would not find one political statement one way or the other on any account. Entertainment on here is it. I honestly don’t care who wins because this country is ***** either way. 

I'm center on many issues, and really have never moved off that whether Tump was in office or anyone else.  I have never believed that being center left or center right means you abdicate common sense or reasoned analysis.  You and I disagree on the state of the country, though I certainly prefer we go in one direction v the other.  Still, if Harris wins, onward.  Ultimately, I'm an optimist.  We'll figure it out. 

 

And don't even try that name thing on me, Mr. Michael Hunt!

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We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate.  It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing at the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased.

   

   -Bezos

 

 

Wrong Jeff. Dead wrong.  You are consistently lying in your reliable reporting.  Lies can't be accurate, unless you're Finding.  It's because you lie that you are not believed.  So you are failing massively on both fronts.

 

In other words, if the majority of people actually believed your lying propaganda, it still doesn't mean it's accurate.

 

 

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40 minutes ago, The Frankish Reich said:

Please.

As for Bezos: Am I alone in thinking that this trillionaire (well, he would've been but for an ill-timed affair and divorce) will restore our faith in the news media?

Yes you are alone. He won’t restore anyone’s faith worrying about the bottom line.

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