He wanted it to publish what he wanted it to publish how he wanted it to publish it, and if it fails as a business doing so he doesn't care, because "be a successful newspaper" isn't why he bought it.
I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.
I loved editing Elizabeth at The Post. And I am prone to agree: The current Post doesn't fit the vision the new leadership wants. The current incredible newsroom is a casualty.
I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.
The evil is not that he bought it specifically to shut it down. The evil is that he bought it to do *whatever he wanted* with a necessary institution for American journalism. It is malice, the malice of robber barons. They didn’t build mines specifically to kill people either, but guess what.
I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.
I think he bought it to save it but the political winds shifted, he’s become a shittier, shallower person, and killing it slowly preserves his favor with the regime while forestalling serious consumer backlash against Prime.
I don't buy the idea that Bezos is intentionally killing the Post. If he wanted to do that he could have just bought it and shut it down. Plenty of rich people have done that. The problem is he hired a Murdoch tabloid team to manage it and it's not a Murdoch tabloid and you can't run it like one.
