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One reason for the attacks on Amazon: they are coming from the New York Times. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post -- a significant competitor to the NYT. The
by philiphodgen 11y ago
One reason for the attacks on Amazon: they are coming from the New York Times.
Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post -- a significant competitor to the NYT.
The NYT is in the happy position of damaging a competitor while generating clicks.
It's personal, in other words.
- aioprisan 11y agoThat's a copout. Just because Bezos buys one large newspaper now means that any other newspaper presenting a well-documented expose of the company with hundreds of their own employees talking about systemic issues is invalid?
- serge2k 11y agoright because the NYT article was the first time something came out about amazon. from an engineer https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3ce0s8/dear_amazon_interns_some_advice_from_an_old_man/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/3ce0s8/dear_amazon... some stuff about the FC workers http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_sick_brutality_and_secret_history_of_ruthlessly_intimidating_workers/ http://www.salon.com/2014/02/23/worse_than_wal_mart_amazons_... battles in germany with unions http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/16/us-amazon-com-germany-idUSKBN0N71M620150416 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/16/us-amazon-com-germ...