Good day all. Back in 2013, Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, decided to waste a pile of money and bought the Washington Post. Since then, it looks like he’s been taking a hands off approach and letting his management people handle things.
The problem with this is that the Washington Post, more commonly known as the Washington ComPost, has become nothing more then a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. Recently, the ComPost announced that they would not be endorsing anyone for president this year. This set off the leftists with several employees resigning. Others accused the owner, Jeff Bezos, of kowtowing to the Republicans because of money.
The truth is a bit different. Bezos is tired of pouring millions of dollars a year into that dumpster fire. He knows that the staff is so far to the left that they have left the building. Bezos knows that the reader base is far to narrow for the ComPost to survive. So he wrote an opinion and posted it on the Washington ComPost web site. (I assume it will be in the printed version as well) Here are the details from the New York Post:
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election.
Just a small aside here. The New York Post story came out at around 10am on October 28th. Jeff Bezos opinion piece came out around 7:30pm on October 28th. The NY Post’s story is a bit dated in this regard.
Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index valued at $211 billion as of Monday — is keen on gaining a more ideologically diverse readership by expanding his newspaper’s reach among right-leaning audiences, according to a report in The New York Times.
In other words, Bezos wants to expand his reader, customer and advertiser base and he can’t do that when you have doctrinaire Socialists, Marxists and Communists who not only won’t talk to people of different political outlooks, they actively hate them and want them dead. Yes, literally they want anyone to the right of Mao dead.
The Amazon founder, meanwhile, has remained silent over the non-endorsement controversy. He has not spoken publicly amid protests from high-level staffers and prominent figures such as Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Again, the Post story is dated. Within hours of it’s being published, Jeff Bezos published a column in the Washington Compost that basically hit his own paper over the clear biases in their “Reporting.” In his letter, he commented on how badly the Main Stream Media has fallen in the eyes of the public. Here are some excerpts of Jeff Bezos commentary from, yes, you guessed correctly, the Washington Compost:
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working.
Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements. They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct from and just as important as the first.
He’s not wrong on voting machines, and trust in them has been plummeting since the 2020 Tainted election. The recent security breach in Colorado, where that incompetent moron of a Secretary of State put the passwords for the systems online is a case in point. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold didn’t tell anyone about it until the GOP discovered the breach and slammed her office over it. That dimbulb didn’t even tell the Governor or the counties that there was a problem. Oh yes, she’s also a Democrat.
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the media is biased.
You are mistaken Mr. Bezos. Most people don’t believe that the media is biased, they know it is. We’re seeing it right now with regards to a comment by President Trump on Liz Cheney. The short version is that he called her a warmonger, anxious to send others into battle but to gutless to go herself. The MSM promptly said that President Trump wanted Cheney executed.
Anyone who doesn’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. It would be easy to blame others for our long and continuing fall in credibility (and, therefore, decline in impact), but a victim mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We must work harder to control what we can control to increase our credibility.
The basic problem is the philosophy of your average journalist. It goes “I deny your reality and will substitute my own.” They are also, with a few exceptions, hard leftists with many being flat out Marxists and Communists. These “Journalists” have become nothing more than mouthpieces for the Progressive Liberal Democrat party. This is the problem Bezos needs to deal with if he wants the Washington Compost to become the Washington Post.
Bezos then went on to write about the decision to not endorse anyone for President. He states that endorsements don’t do anything to change people’s minds, but they do create an appearance of bias. In this he is correct. Now, once upon a time, this wasn’t all that much of an issue. You had newspapers being published that ran the gamut of political opinions and people had actual choices. Those days, at least among the print media, are long gone.
Lack of credibility isn’t unique to The Post. Our brethren newspapers have the same issue. And it’s a problem not only for media, but also for the nation. Many people are turning to off-the-cuff podcasts, inaccurate social media posts and other unverified news sources, which can quickly spread misinformation and deepen divisions. The Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but increasingly we talk only to a certain elite. More and more, we talk to ourselves. (It wasn’t always this way — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D.C. metro area.)
When it comes to misinformation, of late, these prize winning periodicals are the ones generating it. It’s the podcasts and social media posters that are coming out with actual data. We’ve been seeing it for the last few years, especially since Elon Musk took over Twitter and blew the whistle on just how much the Deep State, the Democrats and the Biden Maladministration were colluding to suppress anything that went against their narratives.
While I do not and will not push my personal interest, I will also not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade into irrelevance — overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs — not without a fight.
I think Jeff Bezos may want to review his comment on “Unresearched” podcasts. Many of them actually do what newspapers like the Washington Compost and the New York Slimes should be doing. Making calls and digging into records, not just publishing handouts from the Biden-Harris White House.
Now more than ever the world needs a credible, trusted, independent voice, and where better for that voice to originate than the capital city of the most important country in the world?
To win this fight, we will have to exercise new muscles.
So are you going to actually start firing some of the moonbats, Marxists and leftist shills you currently have infesting the Washington Compost? You might want to start with the pair that just drove conservative writer Hugh Hewitt to literally walk off the set in disgust during a live broadcast and quit the Washington Compost.
Criticism will be part and parcel of anything new, of course. This is the way of the world.
What I’ve been seeing over the last week since it came out that the Washington Compost wasn’t going to kiss Kamala ass endorse her hasn’t been criticism so much as a massive temper tantrum that rivals any two year old who didn’t get a cookie. In fact, I think it’s time to bring out the The Safe Space Therapy Puppies for all the whining crybabies working at the Washington Compost.
I suspect that Bezos has been looking at the bottom line and at the past issues that the Compost has had, such as the Nick Sandmann debacle, and decided that if things don’t change and soon, he will have no choice but to close the Washington Compost. That will mean writing off who knows how much money. Of course, if he did that, and laid off the staff, they would finally understand the late Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher’s comment on Socialism.
It may actually be too late to save the Compost. Fixing the problems will require a significant overhaul, both with management, staff and commentators. That may mean Jeff Bezos taking a more hands on approach then he has since he bought the Washington Compost and saved it from crashing and burning. It will be interesting to see if the Compost does pull back from the precipice and actually become a true trusted news source. We shall see.
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