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Jeff Bezos went on NYT dealbook and had the gall to say "we did layoffs at the WP because it needs to be profitable; if it's not profitable, it's because people
by zzzeek 5mo ago
Jeff Bezos went on NYT dealbook and had the gall to say "we did layoffs at the WP because it needs to be profitable; if it's not profitable, it's because people are not willing to buy the product it's selling"
after he literally single-handedly ruined the product by personally censoring the editorial team and/or firing large numbers of journalists on multiple, extremely high-profile PR-disastering occasions [1] [2]
from that perspective, Bezos seems perfectly content to weather PR disasters from his companies and drape them in bizarre rationalizations.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-post-subscriber-cancellations https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/29/washington-pos...
[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-60-000-washington-post-214621090.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/more-60-000-washington-post-2...