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>> there has to competition between Bezos and Musk with respect to aerospace subsidies.
#Bezos will eat #Musk alive. The last-moment surprise withholding of #WAPO editorial endorsement for #KamalaHarris was a shrewd move to get a seat at the table.
Musk has no idea he will be swimming with alpha sharks, not all friendly.
Boycott Amazon. Cancel Prime. Save your money and skip Whole Foods.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Las Vegas Sphere: not a Bezos coward.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Jeff Bezos describing journalism as “our profession” in an op-ed defending his decision to kill the Washington Post’s Harris endorsement
#WaPo
In a #WashingtonPost OpEd, Jeff #Bezos spins some #bullshit in an attempt to excuse his #acquiescence to #Trump’s threats to perceived enemies & a #FreePress.
#billionaire #SelfInterest #WaPo #FourthEstate #democracy #fascism #tyranny
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Jeff Bezos has caved in to fascism by forbidding his Washington Post editorial staff from endorsing Kamala Harris in a likely quid pro quo with Mango Mussolini.
Jeff Bezos engaged in illegal union-busting tactics, spending over $14 million in 2022 alone to undercut his employees' rights.
Jeff Bezos spent $500 million to build his personal floating mansion Koru, the tallest sailing yacht in the world that is so big, it has its own 250-foot support yacht.
Jeff Bezos, executive chairman of Amazon, extorts 50% of revenue from sellers on the monopolistic retail website Amazon.com.
Jeff Bezos this year bought his *fourth* private jet for $80 million, a Gulfstream G700 luxury business jet that travels near the speed of sound. Bezos’ plane made 28 flights in 39 days — leaving a carbon footprint of 264 tons, or 17 times what the average American emits in a year.
Jeff Bezos, as reported by ProPublica, filed a tax return in 2011 showing he lost money and received a $4,000 child tax credit from the US government during a year in which his wealth held steady at $18 billion.
I can go on and on, but how many reasons do you need to boycott anything he touches?
Cancel your Washington Post subscription. Cancel your Amazon Prime membership. Boycott Amazon.
You have alternatives. Don't feed the beast.
#USPol #USPolitics #Amazon #Bezos #WaPo #BillionairesShouldNotExist #TaxTheRich #UnionBustingIsDisgusting #UnionStrong
LA Times owner Soon-Shiong WANTED A JOB under Trump running American healthcare. Washington Post owner Bezos wants to keep his $3.4 billion contract with NASA. Billionaires want Trump’s multitrillion dollar tax cuts. Planet-destroying oil execs want deregulation.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
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#latimes #patricksoonshiong #LosAngelesTime #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #EatTheBillionaires #USPol
Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement
Biotech tycoon’s decision to refuse to allow presidential endorsement led to resignations and subscribers’ revoltDan Milmo (The Guardian)
60,000 cancelled subscriptions in the first 24 hours following the NO endorsement announcement from #Bezos #WaPo is absolutely staggering. this might be the first time in the history of USA media that this happens.
but forget about the Washington Post a minute: Bezos trashed his credibility overnight. doesn't matter if he has the biggest valuation in the world, making him the richest asshole on paper. Bezos wants the respectability and influence of culture makers.
that ain't happening… ever.
Someone should send #Bezos this 2022 story from the #washingtonpost about All the President's Men... Redford said papers were "chicken---" for not covering Watergate because Nixon was "vindictive and mean."
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![“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”](https://plantroon.com/photo/preview/640/342101 "“I said, ‘Wait a minute, hold on,” Redford recalled. “You guys are here watching me make a fool out of myself [over] something trivial, [but] is there more to this?” And they really let me have it. They said, ‘There are three things you don’t understand: You don’t understand about publishing a newspaper. In order to publish something like that you have to have the support of the publisher [and] the editor. And you have to have time. And [with] newspapers, you don’t have that time. Secondly, it’s not going to come out. Because McGovern’s going to self- destruct, Nixon’s going to win in a landslide, and nobody wants to be on the wrong side of this guy, because he’s vindictive and mean and he’ll go after newspapers.” And I said, ‘Well, how chickens--- is that?’”
After the junket, Redford went home to Utah, where he was preparing to film “The Way We Were,” reading everything he could about the break- in. “And then, when [Woodward and Bernstein’s] articles started to appear, I was right on them.”")
We do not need corporate press owned by billionaires. There are excellent sources of local, regional and national news, and even better sources of meaningful analysis.
Black Wall Street Times - regional, great reporting:
The Frontier - regional, great reporting:
We support both of these outlets
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Excellent national news:
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Excellent Analysis
On substack:
Heather Cox Richardson
heathercoxrichardson.substack.…
There are many others that I have failed to list. The point remains that these sources provide better coverage, and more complete analysis than #WaPo …. We tossed those years ago.
Support independent investigative journalism.
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There’s no way to see this decision other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty.
The Washington Post and LA Times refused to endorse a candidate. Why?
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#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #USPol
There are better options out there! No more billionaire supported media!
#WaPo
#WashingtonPost
#JeffBezos
#FascismArrives
#DemocracyDiesInDarkness
#EatTheRich
Oh wow 👀
~Washington Post publisher Will Lewis reportedly tried to kill story about his involvement in UK hacking scandal~
(from June of this year)
#media #NewsMedia #WashingtonPost #WaPo
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Get this:
William Lewis—publisher and CEO of The Washington Post who wrote the editorial saying the publication would no longer endorse US Presidential candidates—
is a citizen of Great Britain* and won’t even cast a vote in this upcoming election.
Democracy Dies In Darkness.
#USPol #News #NewsMedia #WashingtonPost #WaPo
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*as far as I can tell
Gross: "Hours after the editorial board of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post broke tradition by saying it wouldn’t endorse a presidential candidate, Trump briefly spoke with executives from Bezos’ space exploration company Blue Origin, the AP reported."
Jeff Bezos deserves to be bankrupted—selling out democracy to protect his wealth. Disgusting.
#WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #USPol
