Jeff Bezos' WaPo reeling from losses and 'internal drama' as Trump returns to DC: report

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At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Bruell.In her...

At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Bruell.

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Loyal dogs of empire euthanised after they stop being useful.
- It's actually the opposite. They're leaving, because they're not loyal to the empire. They're loyal more or less to the truth.
  The article surmises some kind of surprise on Bezos's part that it is losing money, or that people are leaving, but I don't think that surprise is accurate. Bezos is many things but he's not a moron about money. He bought the Post to do what he wants with it, not for it to make a profit, and now he's bending it to his will as he'd planned to do. Some breakage, as he manipulates it, would be expected I would think.
  
  After reading that, I suppose the WP is to Bezos as Twitter is to Musk.
  It’s ok to run it into the ground, it’s a tool. The institutions will probably even survive
  
  I won’t claim to know in detail what the plan is, but it seems realistic that destroying the things that let people communicate with each other and figure out the truth might be an explicit goal.
  Then again, it could just be that they’re incapable of grasping the way these institutions function. No one at Amazon, presumably, has any kind of loyalty to a higher calling than “make me a trainload of money and I’ll give you some, and you can take it home.” Bezos at least might find it genuinely confusing if a bunch of people start quitting because the company is now doing evil stuff.
  
  Maybe a little of each scenario, either way people loose

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