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Notes On The Bezos Debacle At The Washington Post

Notes On The Bezos Debacle At The Washington Post

A tech mogul obsessed with customers disappoints the newspaper's subscribers. Oversight or typical billionaire move?

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Oct 29, 2024
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Let’s talk about Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder is currently at the center of a firestorm at the Washington Post, where more than 250,000 subscribers have canceled since the paper declined to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time since the 1980s. That’s 10% of Post subscribers, gone in a blink. 

As the crisis at the newspapers worsens, here…

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