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I stopped reading Washington post when they made everything paywall.
Don’t regret it at all, plenty of other better articles online.
next start finding alternatives to Amazon
Yeah but what am I going to do for my next space flight? The options are down to Bezos, or Musk.
Why can't someone like Taylor Swift start a space exploration company?
we will likely die before we need space flight so we might as well take Amazon down with us
People need to cancel Amazon prime instead
I'll be doing that soon enough...
Same just gotta do this last dog food order..
bezos would learn his lesson if his actual life was in danger and not just his money. people will have to get serious if they want to send a message.
I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn't own the paper for the money.
I think Elon mismanaged Twitter tremendously but a very clear "this is my toy and I'll break it if i want" message was sent and a very dangerous message it was. Gives me the same vibe. Bezos doesn't need to own it but he does and he'll do what he pleases.
Eh. It seems mismanagment took off somewhere in 2014.
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I'm glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don't get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still....
Freedom of speech
Think of it in terms of "out in the open". Fwiw most (all) media orgs have a bias and as such are more likely to endorse a certain candidate. That could be President, it could be mayor. Would you rather have that endorsement in the open or hidden in context?
I'd rather have neutral, fact based reporting. That one party endorses “alternative facts” was a choice by that party. It doesn't mean that people more grounded in reality are biased.
In other words: if you are an US-American news source that reports neutrally, the vast majority of your staff will be voting Democrats.
You ain't wrong. That's what makes this world increasingly fucked up.
What's that saying? "The truth tends to have a natural bias to the left" or some shit like that.
Newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates because the first amendment protects free speech. While I may agree with you that endorsements and news media stumping for ANY candidate is problematic and reeks of propaganda, it is, for better or worse, protected by the constitution.
Indeed, it's a shame that companies are considered people.
For anyone seeing this, there is a great documentary from decades ago called "The Corporation". It's extremely prescient at all times, but especially now.
I mean when the choice is either facism or democracy, I'd assume being unbiased is a little hard. After all, the nazis did attack the press first to instill propaganda.
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