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It's PR firm press release to get ahead of the mass resignations (or resistance he's meeting inside). He thinks he can get in front of the story of him exerting
by gdilla 2y ago
It's PR firm press release to get ahead of the mass resignations (or resistance he's meeting inside). He thinks he can get in front of the story of him exerting editorial control.
- abigail95 2y agoNothing in the story suggests anything about editorial control.
- wewtyflakes 2y agoDoesn't the article open with a declaration of such control? "The Washington Post's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, announced a sweeping new libertarian vision for the paper's opinion sections on Wednesday, just four months after his decision to kill a presidential endorsement of Kamala Harris triggered hundreds of thousands of subscribers to cancel."
- SpicyLemonZest 2y agoIn media circles, there's a widespread perspective that the opinions page is completely firewalled from the rest of the newspaper and it's wrong to draw inferences that ideological capture of one might influence the other. I personally consider this to be a polite fiction at best, but I have to acknowledge that people who actually work for newspapers pretty uniformly disagree with me.
- afavour 2y agoHuh? It is specifically a story about Bezos dictating what opinions will be published in his opinion section. That is definitely editorial control.
- immibis 2y ago[flagged]
- will4274 2y agoI'm aware of a sexual harassment allegation against Musk, but no rape allegation, and wasn't able to find one on Google. Do you care to share a link or retract your claim?
- qwerpy 2y agoWe really have to shoehorn him into every discussion, huh.
- mexicocitinluez 2y agoIn a conversation about how billionaires are acting like children I think it's pretty appropriate to bring up the king manchild himself
- brink 2y agoAnd what are you - king manman?
- trust_bt_verify 2y agoThis is the type of intelligent rebuttal I come to HN for.