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Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon? A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as b
by bhouston 9y ago
Can the Washington Post get away with significant original criticism or investigations of Amazon?
A medium sized think tank corrupted for a megacorp isn't as bad as the major government focused newspaper, the only newspaper bigger is the nytimes.
But I guess if the choice of jb owning wp or having wp go bankrupt and go away, I would choose wp being owned by jb. Journalism is important to keep around.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoWell, WaPo got away with this one just last month: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-too-big/2017/07/28/ff38b9ca-722e-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to...
- kyleschiller 9y agohttps://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=amazon&utm_term=.90f7c49018b4&sort=Relevance&datefilter=All%20Since%202005&spellcheck&startat=0#top https://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/?query=amazon&utm_... Lots of press, most of it good, couple harsher criticisms: Why this group is trying to stop Amazon from buying Whole Foods https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/why-this-group-is-trying-to-stop-amazon-from-buying-whole-foods/?utm_term=.306e75b1d628 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/17/why-t... Amazon under probe for business in Iran https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-under-probe-for-business-in-iran-arbitration-rule-avoids-suspension/2017/07/31/227998ec-7616-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.026fd94132ab https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/amazon-under... Is Amazon getting too big? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-too-big/2017/07/28/ff38b9ca-722e-11e7-9eac-d56bd5568db8_story.html?utm_term=.7dc7a88d80b3 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/is-amazon-getting-to... But yeah, overall hard to tell if this is genuine or just there to make WaPo appear less biased.
- bhouston 9y agoJb would never police wp on a daily basis. It isn't worth his time and all but one is just simple reporting. There is only one oped that is fairly weak in it's take on Amazon's monopoly. None of these are real risks to his business. Could the whole wp editorial board run a blind oped calling for the government to breakup Amazon's monopoly as the paper's official position? As Amazon grows the threat of antitrust will probably get real and the center of that threat is Washington DC.
- cmac2992 9y agoI think direct interfere of jb is way less likely that self censorship. Outcomes are similar