Bezos Promotes Politico Founder to Publisher of WaPo
This is some bullshit.
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has replaced publisher Katharine Weymouth with a co-founder of the newspaper’s competitor Politico, the company announced Tuesday.
Weymouth’s departure is the end of an era of Graham family involvement with the Post. Her great-grandfather bought the newspaper in the 1930s, and her uncle Donald Graham sold it to Bezos last August for $250 million.
She’ll be replaced by Frederick J. Ryan, the founding CEO of Politico and a former Reagan administration official.
Anyone who thought that Amazon ownership of the Post was going to be good for American journalism can put away that childish naivety.
No suprise, Amazon has a long history of employee mistreatment and supporting of ALEC just to mention a few.
Some fun reading material –
https://stallman.org/amazon.html
Will be trying to order elsewhere whenever possible.
Jim Romanesko has a summary of the meeting of the new publisher and the newsroom today. The “winning the morning” business isn’t good news for those of us looking for information.
Thanks for that link. This is also ominous: “Ryan says believes in “objective journalism”
So, is “objective journalism” a euphemism for propaganda? It’s a term I haven’t encountered before.
I’ve been boycotting Amazon and Wal-Mart for at least 10 years and I manage to find everything I need. Of course, it’s had absolutely no impact on either company but it makes me feel better.
Why do you care? The Post is in the same boat as all of the other dailies: dropping circulation, declining revenues, and an inability to compete with the internet. Newspapers may have been gussied up as much as possible, but, in the end, they’re still 18th century technology.
There is so much information available, from so many different sources, the vast majority of them free, that print newspapers really cannot compete. In the end, they’ll all be gone.