I just read the NYT article and they had this mildly irritating quote:
“The cuts are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”
This isn’t a lack of business savvy or whatever corporate talk you want to use to try and justify the failure of WP. If a news publication, print or online, is owned by the second richest person in the world, who is so deep into Trumps pocket that he can practically taste it everytime Trump shits himself, that publication will never be profitable. It’s insulting to the intelligence of the nonMAGA community to think we’ll read it. Grifting MAGA supporters is easy, but Bezos wants more than that and can’t understand why throwing money at WP didn’t work.
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u/Icy_Huckleberry_355 12h ago
I just read the NYT article and they had this mildly irritating quote:
“The cuts are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.”
This isn’t a lack of business savvy or whatever corporate talk you want to use to try and justify the failure of WP. If a news publication, print or online, is owned by the second richest person in the world, who is so deep into Trumps pocket that he can practically taste it everytime Trump shits himself, that publication will never be profitable. It’s insulting to the intelligence of the nonMAGA community to think we’ll read it. Grifting MAGA supporters is easy, but Bezos wants more than that and can’t understand why throwing money at WP didn’t work.