Bezos responds in the Washington Post about the endorsement dramahttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/
>>486225115This is still the same dumb alt tech arg as the past 4 years and you are still a retarded shitskin
TLDR>If Kamala wins and we didn't endorse her nothing happens. If Trump wins and we endorsed her he'll use the full force of the federal government against us because he's a petty faggot.
>>486225282Nice fan fiction. Trump doesn't play by the democrap handbook.
>>486225115archive please.thanks
>>486225282cool story Bro.
>>486225282Like he did in 2017 amaright?
>>486225282Trump wouldn't do that. He's not a Democrat using the IRS to target political opponents
>>486225115I agree with him 100%. Points for mentioning election integrity, too. However, what's his REAL reason for doing this?
>>486225371took a second, here it isarchive.is/ZJdo7
>>486225522There was some facial recognition thing in 2019 where Trump told the government to go with Microsoft over Amazon, supposedly it was due to all the negative WaPo coverage
>>486225115who the fuck cares?
>>486225115His assertions are reasonable but his criticisms of podcasts and social media being inaccurate, unresearched or unreliable are laughable when his rag has been peddling outright lies for the last 13 years and was doing so decades before he owned it.
>>486225570>they [journalists] deserve to be believedThat’s the closing sentence of his OPed and you agree with him 100%? Kys, anon. You cocksucking niggerfaggot.
>>486225115>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.>Presidential endorsements do nothing to tip the >scales of an election. No undecided voters in >Pennsylvania are going to say, “I’m going with >Newspaper A’s endorsement.” None. What >presidential endorsements actually do is create >a perception of bias. A perception of non->independence. Ending them is a principled >decisionThe principle is being biased but not admitting it. The media has to encyst to evade the antibiotics. When they were running the show they could be on the offense. Now it's time for defense, and working subtly from below.
>>486225115>The credibility gap can be bridged by independence.So far
>>486225115Interesting read. He really feels intimidated by Joe Rogan insofar as he feels his podcasts threatens his newspaper side business.
Actual TLDR; our brainwashing isnt working anymore and those chud podcasters shape public opinion more than I and my fellow billionaires do. Its time to change so chuds listen to our newsslop, If this doesnt work I'm buying spotify and youtube. t. Jeff Bezos
>>486225115>all the comments saying their gonna end their subscriptionwapo gonna die
>>486225570Isn't Amazon integrated with the military logistics supply chain? Does he know what's coming regarding media outlets?
>>486225282>um actually trump is evil that's whykek. well played bezos, trump and Jim probably had a laugh about it
>>486227069They've already shed 200k subscribers which is almost 10% of their subscriber base from last year but if they can create the illusion they're free and balanced (lol) then from a business perspective they stand to win more back than what they've lost. Either way it feels like WaPo was on the path to irrelevancy, how long Bezo's move could delay that we'll have to wait and see.
>>486227061Or ByteDance/TIkTok.
>>486227069>lose shizo trump is hitler subs>gain the other 70% of americaok
>>486225570They spent all their credibility They've got to get people believing them in order to be useful as a lie-mill. When you're on top and have censorship and you're the one with a bullhorn you don't have to worry as muchNow they will carefully choose which poison to whisper into the king's ear.
>>486227554yeah like that's gonna happen
>>486227554>niggers and spics>reading newspaperlol lmao
how can a newspaper that's supposed to give unbiased coverage endorse one candidate over another? that's basically telling readers that any story they report on is biased. everyone already knows it is, but this isn't even pretending.
>>486225115lmao who's got the article about using diversity to bust unions?
>>486227697God, what a stupid prick.
>>486225607based
>>486225115I don't hate Bezos or Musk
>>486227686That leftists are so up in arms about a media entity pledging to stay neutral is hilarious.
>>486225115If the media wants me to trust them they must purge their ranks. Literal purged. Journalists on their knees in front of mass graves. One bullet each to the back of the head. No cigarettes, no blindfolds.
>>486225115Bezos can suck my nuts
>>486227697There's legitimately dozens of business conflicts of interest but did the post cover his divorce at all? That would be a pretty blatant one.
>>486225115How would you guys fix The Washington Post?
>>486225115FUCK Bezos that bald faggot little homunculus
>>486227554>thinking anyone under the age of 60 pays for the news>let alone from fucking WaPoIf it's not from the Associated Press or Reuters most couldn't give less of a shit.And even fewer are willing to pay for it when you can get it for free.
>>486225115> Something we are doing is clearly not working.Waitaminute. What they should be doing is reporting facts and educating the population. If they aren’t doing that, what exactly are they doing? Maybe they should try doing that. I’m tired of being told what to think, without the “why”, instead of educating me. They’ve got the “fact checkers” and the sources. Do that.
>>486227362>then from a business perspective they stand to win more back than what they've lost.I really don't see many podcast listeners jumping from those over to the wapo at this point. maybe another paper that was never as biased as them but not the wapo
>>486225115I find it hilarious to see Bezos talking about how important it is not to come off as biased when the page still has that "Democracy Dies In Darkness" subtitle on it, aka whining about how DRUMPF IS LITERALLY HITLER
>>486225282but this time for real!
>>486226711He bought WP in 2013 and his rival Elon bought Twitter. SpaceX is beating Blue Origin and Twitter is also beating the WP becasue like Bezzo's admitted, old format news papers like WP have lost all credibility and is now a echochamber. Joe Rogan podcast with Trump was probably the final straw and so he decided to act. Not sure what he's going to do with the post to fix it since pretty much all old fashion news outlets tend to be grouped together now as "Media". They'll face challenges like if another media outlet does something they'll get a hit to because they are seen as part of "one" larger whole.
>>486228329no it's cool see, they're not endorsing a candidate just releasing pro articles for one and anti articles for the other. jeff bezos has healed the news industry for all consumerworkers, very trusted!
>>486228329Bro thats a common journalist slogan, i hate msm but that phrase has nothing to do with trump. its more about freedom of the press and is more suited to real journalism like wikileaks and project veritas rather than washington post, but thats the feeling they are trying to invoke. As though washington post would post any leaks or investigativr information.
>>486225115reading the comments section and all the liberals are having a meltdown lmao, also the fact that they even have a comment section unlike other news sites who got rid of it around 10 years ago is pretty cool
>>486228273Neither do I but trying to pivot their business and attract a larger base is a better business move then riding a handful of lefties into irrelevance. As he said journalists are now less trusted than congress. lol they cannot go any lower.
>>486225570the meta of this post is hilarious to me
>>486228738>the fact that they even have a comment section unlike other news sites who got rid of it around 10 years ago is pretty coolEvery post most await moderation. They don't allow any posts of substance.
>>486225674you're thinking of jedi, which they sued into cancellation
>>486227697I used to work for Jeff Bezos and he ordered Amazon and its subsidiaries to cover up a police investigation into his efforts to try and spread covid in hopes it would kill the competition.It went to court and the German government swept it under the rug.
>>486225607ABSOLUTELY BLASTED EMLEFTOIDS ON SUICIDE WATCH
>>486229154Did he keep the front of his nightgown untied whenever you went over for dinner?
>>486225115>People don't trust liars.Wow what a shocking revelation, no one would have ever guessed.
>>486225115>rich billionaire businessman who owns a business that is notorious for always being in the red tries to convince us that he is doing it for altruistic reasons and not so he can have his own propaganda arm to protect his other businesses (amazon from anti-trust suits).
>>486225115its because jews and their foot soldiers are scumbags
>>486229391Yes.He has a botched circumcision.
>>486225282He definitely did that last time he won. You whining doesn't work any more.
>>486225115I'm giving him points on this one.The richest dude ever fucking responding, guys, that means something.But we'll see.
>>486225115>billionaire who bought paper to spread propaganda wonders why people don't trust the news anymorewhat a fucking moron
>>486227697He’s being a sneaky pilpul expert here he says >give an example of when I have personally asked someone to manipulate a story in my favor. But of course he wouldn’t do it himself. Plausible deniability. Oliver north would be proud.
>>486225282Why the fuck would a journalist be endorsing someone?
>>486227697TRY THIS ONE>Most people believe the media is biased. Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.BASED BEEZOS
Someone run it through an AI detector.
>>486225115>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezos-washington-post-trust/Deepest darkest dankest briny salt mines here in the comments
>>486228701They didn't start using it in every page or push it as a meme until 2015, you flaming memeflaggot.
>>486230293The Jews have been doing a stellar job of eradicating white goyim since Cohen's speech A Racial Program for the 20th Century, in 1912, if not quite as quickly as Cohen had predicted. The Jews of today must be getting very nervous about the lack of white men joining the military. Instead of replacing them with non whites, they act like whitey not joining wasn't supposed to happen. As if something just went terribly, horribly wrong with Jewish plans.
>>486228701>>486231033https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Dies_in_Darkness>"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the official slogan of the American newspaper The Washington Post, adopted in 2017. The slogan was introduced on the newspaper's website on February 22, 2017, and was added to print copies a week later.>"Democracy Dies in Darkness" was the first slogan to be officially adopted by The Washington Post in its 140-year history. According to the newspaper, the phrase was popularized by investigative journalist Bob Woodward.[3] Woodward used the phrase in a 2007 piece criticizing government secrecy,[4] and referenced the phrase during a 2015 presentation at a conference when he talked about The Last of the President's Men, his book about the Watergate scandal. >Woodward said he did not coin the phrase himself, instead attributing the phrase to a judge ruling on a First Amendment case, believed to be from Circuit Judge Damon Keith.>The paper's owner Jeff Bezos, who attended Woodward's 2015 presentation, also used the phrase in a May 2016 interview. The newspaper said it decided to adopt an official slogan in early 2016. This started a process which involved a small group of newspaper employees meeting to develop ideas for slogans. The group eventually settled on "Democracy Dies in Darkness" after brainstorming over 500 options.
>>486225570"We are losing fuck tons of money and losing all our soft power because we manipulated information too hard and were extremely biased. We have to dial that back or else we will go out of business and the news will be replaced by other grifters that will spread views that are the opposite of ours."Every news outlet is DIRECTLY responsible for the state the country is currently in, where everyone is at each others throats and fighting during the election season, where assassins attempt to take candidates lives. If they don't dial it back, they will destroy the country and if the US Dollar is worthless, they stop being billionaires and it's not like China or Russia will let them open up large factories that displace their state run ones. Trump not dying was a blessing and I'm not even a Trump supporter, if Trump got killed there was a very good chance the country would immediately devolve into a civil war. The United States must go back to a sense of decorum and sanity, or else it's way too easy for foreign actors to manipulate citizens in the current digital age. Not only are news outlets losing money, but they are letting foreign money decide elections instead of their money when everyone is getting their news from Tiktok and Twitter. It's lose-lose and seeing how well Trump is currently doing must be driving this point home. The entire system was against Trump every step of the way and it didn't matter, because people would rather get their news from social media. Also a lot of those sources are becoming antisemitic on both the right and left, the fringes on both sides of the aisle are becoming very antisemitic so most of these publications should want to aim to be a center that people stay with instead of veering off and going from the Washing Post to the Huffington Post to far left extremist social media channels.
>>486231899You say antisemitism as if it isn't deserved. Bezos is worried Harris will do something unprofitable for him. The last thing in the world he is doing is becoming more honest. Nobody goes to the trouble of running a newspaper to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. They do it first to give themselves good press and second to get ad revenue. It's too much work to allow your enemies to speak honestly about your evil behavior in your own paper. You buy a paper or outlet to control what information may be seen. Always has been, always will be.
Media should be impartial and unbiased. Decide to actually do that. Public screeches for partiality and bias. These are the where is mask pod people.
>>486232765A glaring lie from the script is when he says no one decides who to vote for based on an endorsement. Shit tons of people do. Joining the winning team is something they all want to be a part of. Harris is in the way of his money and or he is starting to think Trump is going to win.
>>486226012It's really best to treat an obviously biased assessment like this as opposite day. Wapo is inaccurate but perceived to have credibility, alt media is accurate but doesn't have credibility. JB is worried about soon having neither accuracy or credibility while alt media gets both (and this goes along with the Reality argument- its true reality wins in the long run but WAPO is fighting against it hence direction shift from the top).
>>486231887>Democracy dies in darkness>Newspaper doesnt even know what system of government we have
>>486227095Trump could ditch AWS
>>486225115>people must BELIEVElol
>>486225115Total Journo Death
>>486225115I always thought there was more substance to Bezos than it seems. Decent article and i agree. The 'Democracy Die in Darkness' thing was the most faggoty crybaby lib shit imaginable and a terrible look for the paper. Not that igaf about legacy print media to begin w
>>486225282>If Trump wins and we endorsed her he'll use the full force of the federal government against us because he's a petty faggot.sorry, freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences
>>486225115It's fucking over for marketers. Bet your shekels.
>>486225282Based
>>486225115lol
>>486231899Good take, checked. Media is absolutely responsible for the state of discourse in the West, not just the US
>>486225115
>>486225115Based Bezos
>>486225115I love this man, based Chad Bezos
>>486225115the problem for Bezos is a quick glance over wapo political headlines will tell you he's not serious. wapo has some of the dumbest leftist clickbait and has since it sold out completely in 2016. who can forget when russia hacked the power grid? or the totally serious PropOrNot? most of what >>486231899 said is correct, it's in response to how many views Rogan's trump interview got. they're afraid of how few degrees it is from there to media content that accurately describes reality and is thus antisemitic.even people who didn't like trump could detect how the media went all-in against him to an irrational degree starting in 2016 and since. one of trump's greatest uses was causing that mask to slip. and they can't have such low trust of the media when there will be push for war with iran regardless of who is elected. after 2020 the DEI initiatives pushed through the military were to get it ready to be turned loose against the american people. now after october 7th they want whites to die for israel again. the media will be used to push for war just like when bush was in office. same shaming tactics and guilt by association. they want to repair MSM credibility asap. but it won't happen. the shift to independent media is largely complete because the establishment class no longer has any legitimate basis for claiming credibility.
