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The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y agoI guess the lesson of this and Gawker is: Don’t mess with the personal lives of billionaires. If you piss them off enough, they have the resources to cause a media organization a world of pain.
- HomeDeLaPot 5y agoAffairs and divorces aren't news, but politics is. I'm not surprised that a slimy tabloid under investigation for Trump-related shenanigans might get the worse end of this deal. And despite the language in the article, Jeff Bezos certainly didn't need to be some sort of PR god to come up with the response that his team did.
- kderbyma 5y agoI read this differently. I read this as 'Rich Billionaire above the 4th estate'
- dragonwriter 5y agoHow is the owner of the Washington Post any less a part of the 4th Estate than the tabloids in question?
- a0-prw 5y agoIs "A man has fuck-off money in spades" an untold story?