Three cheers for Jeff Bezos, fighting
to save The Washington Post from itself
New York Post,
by
Joe Concha
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
3/7/2025 7:33:26 AM
Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs — but making his Washington Post staffers face reality may be his toughest-ever career challenge.
A long time ago in a media galaxy that now seems far, far away, the Post was one of the most respected newspapers in the country, capturing 68 Pulitzers in the process.
But in recent years, especially since Donald Trump’s first presidential run, the paper’s shift from left-of-center to hard-left extremism has become obvious and overt.
The paper has never endorsed a Republican presidential candidate in its history — boosting the likes of Jimmy Carter (twice!)
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 3/7/2025 8:03:26 AM (No. 1910315)
Yah, yah, hooray for Bezos. It's like someone who say tsunami warnings and decided that today was not a good day to go to the beach.
Here's the reality. Liberal publications have been allowed to become infested with fanatics. As noted in the article, fanatics are completely intolerent to opposing points of view. Remeber the total destruction in cities in 2020? That is what fanatics do, burn things to the ground. Period.
So, Bezos wants his collection of fanatics to make nice with some Conservatives he plans to import. First, who would want to work in such a hate filled environment? There is absolutely no way that Conservative workers would not be under constant attack. In most places it would be considered HARRASSMENT. In bastions of liberalism it is considered common sense to full out attack Conservatives in any manner possible.
Let's say Bezos gets a Conservative to live in a meat grinder. Then, EVERYTHING the Conservative does will be attacked. he fanatics would consider it their duty to assault them in any way possible. Consider what happened during Trump's speech, the depths of infantilism reached by dem Congressmen. And those folks were on camera. What might happen in the shadows of the WaaPoo newsroom?
The reality is, Bezos would have to fire all his current staff and rebuild with one Conservative and one liberal, and crystal clear marching orders to play nice or be fired, to even have a chance of success. And given the overall insanity of the Left I don't think he could succeed. The Left cannot help themselves. Their hatred is all consuming.
When you think about it, this is very similar to Trump's two terms. In his first term, he thought he could work with the dems. Heck, he'd worked with lots of contentious people in his business career. We KNOW how that worked out. In his second term, Trump is driving a bulldozer through the dems. He KNOWS you cannot work with them. You can only clear them out or push them aside. He is simultaneously attacking them from all sides and he is succeeding.
THAT is the fight Bezos is facing even though he doesn't realize it yet.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 3/7/2025 8:21:21 AM (No. 1910331)
Well done, #1!!
Excellent summary of the reality.
The only point I might add is: adding a token conservative voice seems to be more of a business decision than a personal conviction.
It Jeff B had had a political conversion earlier, he might have considered the approach you outlined in your 5th paragraph.
Now, it looks like a bandaid after open heart surgery.
Oh well. (And think about the faux journalists, Woodward and Bernstein, created by the Compost. That says it all.)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/7/2025 8:38:49 AM (No. 1910341)
Bezos has a huge problem trying to right the ship - while its at sea. Every single school of journalism, and for that matter college faculty, is near-100 percent leftist to the core. My own relatively conservative alma mater, Texas A&M, shuttered its journalism school long ago. How could anyone leave our educational system and not have been 'schooled' or indoctrinated with liberal/Marxist beliefs? Yes, we have conservative voices out there but while they certainly know how to act as 'influencers' in the video blog environment, they don't know the ins and outs of investigative journalism. Still, I welcome Bezos' trying to steer his paper rightward.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/7/2025 10:03:00 AM (No. 1910402)
Sorry, I'd much rather kill the CommiePost and have someone start a new 'paper', if they even publish an actual physical paper version any more.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/7/2025 11:14:46 AM (No. 1910493)
Late to the party. If his revenue hadn't been going down, this wouldn't happen.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
danu 3/7/2025 3:25:54 PM (No. 1910687)
as one of my refugee friends says: when toxicity and confusion and money scams abound:
it's the marxism.
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