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Reminder: there is 0 evidence Bezos has interfered with editorial concerns at WaPo or anywhere else. WaPo themselves confirmed this several times. https://www.

Reminder: there is 0 evidence Bezos has interfered with editorial concerns at WaPo or anywhere else. WaPo themselves confirmed this several times. https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/washington-post-public-editor-bezos-has-been-hands-off-what-if-that-changes.php https://www.cjr.org/public_editor/washington-post-public-edi...

asdff 4y ago
OTOH Wapo themselves are probably the least credible source on this matter. That being said, just because bezos isn't dictating what is and isn't to be published, that doesn't mean the editorial room isn't biased towards U.S. foreign policy interests (1, further reading on how this model works: 2) 1. https://fair.org/home/washington-post-editorial-page-meet-noam-chomsky/ https://fair.org/home/washington-post-editorial-page-meet-no... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model
- fortuna86 4y ago
  What's a more credible source, people on the internet with theories ? That's all i'm seeing here. There is plenty of precedent for Chinese or Russian state editorial interference in media, or the Murdoch's dictating Fox news talking points, I still see no evidence (that thing you are supposed to base your beliefs on) for Bezos interfering with WaPo. I do see a lot of conspiracies by people that don't like what WaPo publishes (Trump among them).
  - asdff 4y ago
    I just think its a little naive to assume that there would not be any influence until some academic comes in with a meta analysis that suggest that there is a statistically significant degree of influence. It's best to believe that there could be influence one way or another with anything you read in media, because influence is massively profitable.
CyanBird 4y ago
Yeah.... About that Just give it 20 or so years until the editors write out their own autobiographical memories, that's how it always works, that's how it worked during the yellow press period of the US-Spanish war and that's how it works today, to be ignorant of history is just pure naivety, but some people like to have their minds be managed, they like to not think, so be it as it may
- alldayeveryday 4y ago
  Shout the lie and then whisper the retraction.
  - fortuna86 4y ago
    I hear a lot of conspiracy and monologuing, not a lot of evidence.
- fortuna86 4y ago
  I hear a lot of conspiracy and monologuing, not a lot of evidence.
pessimizer 4y ago
Well if you don't believe it when even the WaPo says that the WaPo hasn't been influenced by the owner of the WaPo, I don't know how to convince you.
- fortuna86 4y ago
  > there is 0 evidence Bezos has interfered with editorial concerns at WaPo or anywhere else

asdff 4y ago

OTOH Wapo themselves are probably the least credible source on this matter. That being said, just because bezos isn't dictating what is and isn't to be published, that doesn't mean the editorial room isn't biased towards U.S. foreign policy interests (1, further reading on how this model works: 2) 1. https://fair.org/home/washington-post-editorial-page-meet-noam-chomsky/ https://fair.org/home/washington-post-editorial-page-meet-no... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

fortuna86 4y ago
What's a more credible source, people on the internet with theories ? That's all i'm seeing here. There is plenty of precedent for Chinese or Russian state editorial interference in media, or the Murdoch's dictating Fox news talking points, I still see no evidence (that thing you are supposed to base your beliefs on) for Bezos interfering with WaPo. I do see a lot of conspiracies by people that don't like what WaPo publishes (Trump among them).
- asdff 4y ago
  I just think its a little naive to assume that there would not be any influence until some academic comes in with a meta analysis that suggest that there is a statistically significant degree of influence. It's best to believe that there could be influence one way or another with anything you read in media, because influence is massively profitable.

CyanBird 4y ago

Yeah.... About that Just give it 20 or so years until the editors write out their own autobiographical memories, that's how it always works, that's how it worked during the yellow press period of the US-Spanish war and that's how it works today, to be ignorant of history is just pure naivety, but some people like to have their minds be managed, they like to not think, so be it as it may

alldayeveryday 4y ago
Shout the lie and then whisper the retraction.
- fortuna86 4y ago
  I hear a lot of conspiracy and monologuing, not a lot of evidence.
fortuna86 4y ago
I hear a lot of conspiracy and monologuing, not a lot of evidence.

pessimizer 4y ago

Well if you don't believe it when even the WaPo says that the WaPo hasn't been influenced by the owner of the WaPo, I don't know how to convince you.

fortuna86 4y ago
> there is 0 evidence Bezos has interfered with editorial concerns at WaPo or anywhere else