Once again, a reminder that moguls are an absolute disaster running anything that is designed to fulfill a public interest.
Instead of sicc-ing Will Lewis and his white, male, politically reactionary cronies on the Washington Post, Bezos could subsidize the paper without the necessity of even a cut to his pizza take-out budget.
It’s worth nothing that as Bezos has been making more and more far-right public pronouncements, he has been steadily replacing top-level Post staff with the like minded.
It’s also exceedingly rich that the Wall Street Journal has just laid off more journalists despite Murdochland posting record profits. Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker spouts generic gibberish along the lines of advertising slogans to defend her decision. Were Stone’s cutbacks responsible for the disgraceful lapse in QC evidenced by the WSJ’s hit job on Biden earlier this week?
Tucker is behaving true to form as a Murdoch puppet, and, again, we see that moguls’ commitment to journalism and the public good is transactional at best.
And why does America continue to believe that Brits know more about journalism than we do?