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Why does NYT have it out for Amazon? Is it because Mr Bezos owns a rival paper?

ryanhuff 8y ago
I don’t know that the NYT has it out for Bezos, but he’s a very easy target. He has a long reputation of treating employees badly while amassing enormous wealth.
- biocomputation 8y ago
  Yes, it's just this simple. I don't know why more people can't understand how basic this is.
  - mtgx 8y ago
    The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?
    - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
      I don't know, I think it's right to question journalists' motives in an attempt to keep them honest. This works both ways.
    - harrumph 8y ago
      >The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires? I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your asshole sprays gold coins every time you update a git repo, you tend to overlook that production is arranged under capitalism to have the ownership class expropriate the majority of the value that workers create.
- skookumchuck 8y ago
  Seattle is full of multi-millionaire ex-Amazon workers.
  - lexs 8y ago
    probably not warehouse workers then
josephagoss 8y ago
I've noticed that the NYT has it out for anything remotely related to capitalism. Didn't they put out a article a while back about how Jeff Bezos becoming so rich is terrible, and they purposely neglected to mention the millions of Americans that also gained in wealth due to Jeff's actions. These days the NYT is doing some very biased reporting.
- jshorty 8y ago
  The editor of the NYT editorial page recently explicitly stated the goal of defending capitalism: https://fair.org/home/top-nyt-editor-we-are-pro-capitalism-the-times-is-in-favor-of-capitalism/ https://fair.org/home/top-nyt-editor-we-are-pro-capitalism-t... If you read the NYT it is at the very least staunchly moderate on capitalism, if not (in my opinion) a doggedly fierce advocate for it, especially at a time when much of its readership is pushing to the economic left.
- camdenlock 8y ago
  This would align with some of their other recent questionable moves, like the hiring (and defense) of a ridiculously racist editor. These moves kind of smell of ideological possession to me.
finnthehuman 8y ago
>Why does NYT have it out for Amazon? Lets Occam's razor this shit. Is Amazon a megacorp with the ability to throw their weight around and have a large impact on the world? Or are they a little mom-and-pop operation that have wondered into the crosshairs of newsmen conspiring against them because Bozos is the owner of a rival paper? In an era where NYT would like nothing more than to stop the bleeding from papers to online, and migration from NYT to Wapo isn't even on their radar?
scottlocklin 8y ago
Dunno; maybe because its fronted by the world's richest man, treats its workers badly, and has a bunch of sweet deals with the CIA? Or maybe it's because Bezos owns a rival paper. I think the Times is awful, venal, half tabloid, and generally doesn't go after the powerful enough, but I don't think they look at WaPo as 'rivals.' They're basically the same thing, owned by a different set of oligarchs.

I don’t know that the NYT has it out for Bezos, but he’s a very easy target. He has a long reputation of treating employees badly while amassing enormous wealth.

biocomputation 8y ago
Yes, it's just this simple. I don't know why more people can't understand how basic this is.
- mtgx 8y ago
  The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires?
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    I don't know, I think it's right to question journalists' motives in an attempt to keep them honest. This works both ways.
  - harrumph 8y ago
    >The better question is - why are so many in such a hurry to defend billionaires? I think it's because the tech industry is positively lousy with deluded persons who see themselves as embryonic billionaires. When you believe your asshole sprays gold coins every time you update a git repo, you tend to overlook that production is arranged under capitalism to have the ownership class expropriate the majority of the value that workers create.
skookumchuck 8y ago
Seattle is full of multi-millionaire ex-Amazon workers.
- lexs 8y ago
  probably not warehouse workers then

josephagoss 8y ago

I've noticed that the NYT has it out for anything remotely related to capitalism. Didn't they put out a article a while back about how Jeff Bezos becoming so rich is terrible, and they purposely neglected to mention the millions of Americans that also gained in wealth due to Jeff's actions. These days the NYT is doing some very biased reporting.

jshorty 8y ago
The editor of the NYT editorial page recently explicitly stated the goal of defending capitalism: https://fair.org/home/top-nyt-editor-we-are-pro-capitalism-the-times-is-in-favor-of-capitalism/ https://fair.org/home/top-nyt-editor-we-are-pro-capitalism-t... If you read the NYT it is at the very least staunchly moderate on capitalism, if not (in my opinion) a doggedly fierce advocate for it, especially at a time when much of its readership is pushing to the economic left.
camdenlock 8y ago
This would align with some of their other recent questionable moves, like the hiring (and defense) of a ridiculously racist editor. These moves kind of smell of ideological possession to me.

finnthehuman 8y ago

>Why does NYT have it out for Amazon? Lets Occam's razor this shit. Is Amazon a megacorp with the ability to throw their weight around and have a large impact on the world? Or are they a little mom-and-pop operation that have wondered into the crosshairs of newsmen conspiring against them because Bozos is the owner of a rival paper? In an era where NYT would like nothing more than to stop the bleeding from papers to online, and migration from NYT to Wapo isn't even on their radar?

scottlocklin 8y ago

Dunno; maybe because its fronted by the world's richest man, treats its workers badly, and has a bunch of sweet deals with the CIA? Or maybe it's because Bezos owns a rival paper. I think the Times is awful, venal, half tabloid, and generally doesn't go after the powerful enough, but I don't think they look at WaPo as 'rivals.' They're basically the same thing, owned by a different set of oligarchs.