Döpfner: Are you upset if the Post journalists are writing critical stories about Amazon? Bezos: No, I’m not upset at all. Döpfner: Did or wou

Döpfner: Are you upset if the Post journalists are writing critical stories about Amazon? Bezos: No, I’m not upset at all. Döpfner: Did or would you ever interfere? Bezos: Never. I would be humiliated to interfere. I would be so embarrassed. I would turn bright red. It has nothing to do with … I don’t even get so far… I just don’t want to. It would feel icky; it would feel gross. It would be one of those things when I’m 80 years old I would be so unhappy with myself if I had interfered. Why would I? I want that paper to be independent. We have a fantastic editor in Marty Baron. We have a fantastic publisher in Fred Ryan. The head of our technology team, a guy named Shailesh, is fantastic. They don’t need my help in the newsroom for sure. First of all, that’s also an expert’s job. It would be like me getting on the airplane and going up to the front of the plane and saying to the pilot, “You should move aside — let me do this!” https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-interview-axel-springer-ceo-amazon-trump-blue-origin-family-regulation-washington-post-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-interview-axel-sp...