Column: Jeff Bezos threw the Washington Post under the MAGA bus. His decision to revamp its opinion section threatens not just independent journalism, but the Post's business future, writes our senior editor Michael Schaffer.
Column: Jeff Bezos threw the Washington Post under the MAGA bus. His decision to revamp its opinion section threatens not just independent journalism, but the Post's business future, writes our senior editor Michael Schaffer.
He was on the stage at the Coup/Inauguration. Bezos is musk with a ‘Ho
That paper has become a waste of fine trees. And Bezos a schmuck.
Brownnose
time to cancel amazon membership!!
Columnist Michael Schaffer writes: "It’s a matter of dollars and cents. If readers don’t trust a publication’s name, no amount of Pulitzer-worthy scoops will fix it. For Bezos, a guy who believes that the Post needs to gain a broad-based audience, it’s a baffling blind spot."
Fu*k Jeff Bezos!
Being a billionaire creates a lot of baffling blind spots
If he doesn't really care about making money from the Post, it makes perfect business sense. He's not making any money from it now, so why not just use it to curry favor with Trump for his other very profitable businesses. I've already canceled my WAPO subscription, now moving on from Amazon. See ya
Also cancelled my WaPo subscription ✔️
It’s like he bought it to disempower it
Why is truly having *enough* never ever actually *enough* for these people? Their addiction to power hurts too many people.
Repeated here too for emphasis: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a...
Jeff is a coward at any cost!
Broad based? You’ll be moving into Washington Times territory.
Trying to become another USA today is a losing proposition.
If I had a Post subscription, I'd cancel it.
That’s not a blind spot that’s one of MUSK’s K-holes. A good place to stick your entire amazon.com!
So just shut down the Washington Post already! Otherwise, rename it to "Bezos' Bullshit and Propaganda Daily" 🙄😵💫🤬
Subscription cancelled!
How do I cancel my iPad subscription
Bezos is doing to the Post what Musk did to Twitter
Lex Luther trying to take over the world!!
Bezos is the thief in all our pockets, who also wants to lecture us on how to spend our money. Fuck him. Cut off all his government subsidies. Why are we subsidizing billionaire assholes like Bezos and Musk anyway? There’s the government waste. Cut it the fuck off. bsky.app/profile/prof...
Great graph
Proving he's a fascist.
The Washington Post is dead to me.
the death of the Washington post, welcome the bozoington post
I canceled when he wouldn’t let the editorial team endorse Kamala. As did a huge portion of its subscribers.
Folks need that left side drivel when working there way through a grueling dollop of smashed avo.
The very reason I terminated my Amazon accounts to a stunned 1 800 receptionist. The reason I gave was that her boss Jeff Bezos had aligned himself with a racist criminal president.
So stop giving Amazon your business yall Duh
He Washington Post has always been respected. Not Now . How many might cxl their Amazon accounts because the owner is Trump MAGA ? We’ll see.
F BEZos. BUY LOCAL
Dying in broad daylight
Just canceled my subscription. Amazon will be harder, but necessary.
Sorry, I don't read that trash. I don't know how to read. It is too smart for me. 😜
The Post is dead. Financially it's a rounding error for him. He owns it to control the message.
We need a day without a Bezos, it’s the only way to get these men’s attentions!👊🏼👊🏼
Sure, a few insightful if obvious points. But, good lord, this article actually thinks Bezos cares about the business side of the WaPo and turning it around. It's pointless inside baseball nonsense. Bezos has only one reader who matters. The rest is bad theatre. It's not complicated.
And this is coming from Politico. It must be awful if they are highlighting it. foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a...
'revamp' 🤪
Now DC has two right-wing newspaper, The Washington Examiner and The Washington Post.
"Billionaire attempts to hitchhike into history's good graces, fails"
This poor guy believes in own myth. Flying to close to sun, Jeff?
I'll believe it when I see it. Jeff Bezos surrounded tRump on stage. What's changed? I expect nothing.
Wow, a once respected, dare I say, revered publication is now circling the drain. Bezos and the Post are following Musk and Xitter right down the shitter. Like with Trump, everything oligarchs touch dies. Bezos, go to hell and take your plastic sex doll with you!
Just because you’re ’in business’ it doesn’t place you above the law nor should it grant you the authority to make the laws. What is it with these self entitled doyles like Bezos and Musk? See what bullying at school produces? Bullies in life!
Jeff Bezos is officially changing the name of his now right wing rag to the Washingyabrain Post.
I'm sorry but he's looking more and more like the Cone Heads.
Thanks to Jeff Bezos, my @washingtonpost.com subscription died tonight in the new American darkness too.
SAD. Used to be one of my favorite papers. Bye
I finally gave up on wapo several months ago. Bezos is an absolute asshat.
Wasn't Politico's owner at CPAC just a few days ago? This dude: foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a...
Tosser
Another gutless American oligarch. So so sad to care so little about the country that gave you your vast wealth. Shame on you.
Jeff Bezos/Net worth 227.4 billion USD (2025)
He doesn't want to jeopardize his big tax cut.
Wow, if there were ever a chance in hell I’d resubscribe, that chance is gone forever.
Same brother
In fact, this move today made me start donating to @propublica.org
I just saved myself $144 a year by cancelling my subscription to WaPo. Join me!!
Boycott.
Jeff: Get married. Go on your honeymoon. Relax. Let the Washington Post do what it does best.
I've been receiving e-mails from the post on a daily basis. I figured it was useful so I could keep up-to-date on some of the headlines. I canceled my subscription when WaPo decided not to endorse a presidential candidate. I'll be unsubscribing to the e-mail soon enough.
Leave Jess Bozo alone. He has barely enough money to eat. He needs the extra money.
They’ll never see another penny from me. Pathetic.
The post is dead.
Worm
AMAZOMBIS
STOP READING THE POST!!!
I never started!!
Take that thing and stick it up your ass
He sucked a lot of trumps limp dick in recent weeks
May I suggest the @latimes.com rather than WashPost. I grew up on the WashPost, did all my current events assignments for AP Government with the WashPost. Read Dave Barry's column every Sunday. It's sad to see this paper taken over by the douche bag Jeff Bezos. #BoycottAmazon
What a cowardly action. He needs to find more than just money to give his life meaning.
WH press room will be like : 10 from WP, 10 from FOX, 20 from Russian medias, CCTV with feed to FOX only and Russia….👏🏻
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
No different than what Bill Clinton advocated for.
Lex Luthor...
Maggot oligarch at heart
Turned out Amazon's lights and stopped buying from them in 2016 and SO SHOULD EVERYONE
Effin’ worm.
My wife and I have been looking for an alternative to Amazon, Prime and Kindle. It's easier to talk about than do that. However, before and his fake girlfriend are giving us motivation I hope the blackout day works. We can start by ditching fire sticks and adding roku. I am so sick of rich dicks
This is so sad. Almost as sad as his hookets fake breaststroke and huge lips.
Oh No Bozo!
So the message now becomes “You’re allowed to have an opinion as long as its MY opinion” And thats the new definition of a free press😂
Canceling my WaPo subscription. I've had enough.
Billionaire's should have stuck to slapping their name on buildings, building their bank accounts by not paying taxes. These Uppty Loud Talking Billionaire's have it too good in the United States.
Let it die.
This you? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Maybe the plan is to tank it
It's all about trying to get those government contracts.
He leads such a pathetic, empty life
Cancelled my subscription!!! Eff Bozos and his fascism
Bezos is a Sell Out! A sad day
LET IT DIE. The world does not need another right wing press.
Hell yes. I cancelled. I’m done with wapo. No more news letters, no nothing. No reposting of articles.. ZILTCH. Let it DIE!
Democracy dies in a big pool of money.
With their money they to silence the truth
America’s billionaires see the nation state as a dying form and they’re hastening its demise. Let’s remind them 2/28 who’s in charge.
Maybe, the Lone Ranger will ride to scene to save WaPo. Oh wait, the pretend Lone Ranger is Jeff Bezos. Oops, that won't work.
Delete your amazon account!
Democracy doesn't die in darkness. Thats a fallacy. Parasitic billionaires are murdering it in broad daylight.
Bezos is a coward having his pants full because of an dirty old man.
Cancel subscriptions!
Billionaires are a clear and present danger to Democracy in the United States.
“revamp”?
Why bother with an opinion page if it's one-sided?
Whoa! This is so bad.
I cancelled within 30 mins. Final straw. 7 yr subscription.
Good time to cancel subscription
I am ending friendships over not using / supporting Amazon. Their excuse? It's too easy. I don't live near stores. My mom needs something every day. Oh FFS. This is a serious situation. What will you do when all your social nets have massive holes?
The wa po is a sad paper now. He has stained the brand with Amazonian skidmarks.
Time for everyone to cancel their subscriptions and go “post-Post”
How many oligarchs will there be, I wonder?
So, why are people still subscribers to this RAG??? Free speech is dead and buried!!!!
Why is America not boycotting Amazon?
This is what happens when billionaires buy newspapers. It certainly isn’t to preserve free speech and definitely isn’t to make money so what is left. They want to slant the news to echo right wing propaganda.
Nows a good time to remember that Bezos owns Amazon and Amazon owns Whole Foods.
I am Canceling my subscription. I don't need Trump to guide my news.
I never liked this guy before. He's finally coming around. Of course I only read Time magazine. Maybe I'll get him to buy it.
All the mainstream media has done deals with Trump. This is one of the outcomes. CNN pushing Acosta out and MSNBC canceling Reid are also outcomes from dealing with Trump. If people haven’t noticed, there are numerous changes to how the media interacts & covers Trump. All driven by Trump.
I’ve made maybe three purchases from Amazon in the last decade; you really don’t miss it. The guy is now a *literal* Bond villain.
What a creepy couple
New original series coming to Prime Video this spring, "All the Billionaires are Nazis".
Such a sad ending from the newspaper that was once led by Ben Bradlee and Katherine Graham.
Bozo Bezos.
Now it’s the WSJ
Real headline “bald asshole sells propaganda rag”
Block and boycott The Washington Post
Not surprised
Anyone who believes his censorship will be limited to the opinions section has not been paying attention. Regardless of the merits of the journalists there, they don't have editorial control, and with this announcement the paper cannot be trusted. #NoKings #NoOligarchy
I hope Katherine Graham kicks his ass. Even dead she’s a stronger fighter than Bezos.
Boycott Wapo and Tesla shitface book.
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When we imbue corporations with a vestige of personhood, we invite a vampire into our home. Let companies die. Let investors lose money. Drive a wooden stake.
Bigger Picture: They don't care about medium term projections (ie. two years), they are going to upend everything before then so it won't matter. Stop getting distracted.
So no more books like 'A very stable genius' and 'Only I can fix this'?
Will share. Thanks
The Washington Pravda.
Let's call it "The Red Rag" and be done.
Last straw for my WaPo subscription. Bezos is greedy & spineless. Free economic markets are not what keeps a society ethical. Most unregulated billionaires just want more for themselves in an immoral race to the bottom. Slavery thrived in an unregulated economy as well. TY Politico for your work.
I hope history will show all these greedy Robber Barons for the cowards traitorous anti-life psychopaths they are. These billionaire bastards would kill us all if they thought they would in any way benefit personally. Silly psychopaths .
WP is literally dying in darkness. Bezos has killed it.
If this move ultimately speeds up the death of WaPo, I am all for it!
Jeff Bezos sent dick pics to his mistress while still married to his wife;treats his employees like indentured servants, sabotaging their efforts to form unions, yanking up stakes when they prevail over his misinformation & threats; sucking Trump’s dick: a slimy cheat, craven coward & greedy bastard
Cancel!
Jeff just flushed the Post down one of him multiplicity of toilets. Rich and runny scared from the current president and his sleazy sidekick...all for another few billion bucks that he can't spend fast enough.
Pathetic
I am glad I never subscribed. What an embarrassment.
We’ve reached the point where the oligarchs have to decide which side they are on. The “unwashed masses” or the privileged few. Bezos, Zuckerberg, have decided to surrender social responsibility for personal power.
It was a shit paper anyway
Boycott Amazon!
Now, hang on, this could be very revealing. Let's watch and see what we can learn about Billionaire World. If he wants to put his opinion out there... this could be fun.
This will be the end of that newspaper, but hey does Bezos care ? It was a cheap 500 mil$ investment for him.
And I cancelled my entire Amazon account.
That's it. I'm withdrawing my subscription.
He should stay in his lane he is a business man not a a statesman no a patriot not a small d democrat. He is a business man who will undermine democracy for an extra billion
I hope Amazon, Whole Foods and the Washington Post crumbles! I will never buy another item from Whole Foods or Amazon!!!!
😡
Isn’t that the point? He can afford the have the paper go under - investigative journalism harms the autocracy Bezos is part of.
Fuck Bezos that Fascist Racist, piece of shit.
Time to stop reading WaPo, and stop buying from Amazon. It’s a good time to go downtown and shop local.
Exactly. We made these billionaires by throwing money at them. We can unmake them by living like it's the 1980s. Stop with the impulse buys from Amazon, and cancel Amazon Prime. Let's get back to our roots and shop local. #BoycottAmazon #NoSpend2025
We all have to do this.
Just do it in baby steps, that is what my family did. We were used to just buying whatever we wanted all the time. The Amazon truck was at our house EVERY DAY. This has stopped. We have 1 streaming service, not all of them, and an HD antenna for local news. Our savings account looks much better.
We have been inundated with tons of superfluous stuff. I’m about to cancel Netflix. I already cancelled Disney+. I was watching 1 show every 3 weeks and the rest was garbage. We are very addicted to consuming and this social media age has been a great tool for corporations. We have to be stronger.
It’s time to completely dissolve amazon.com. It would free up so much wealth on the Internet for small businesses.
Yes. Totally agree. It may even get some to shop local.
Get good socializing in public again!
Right on! Don’t shop at Walmart either since they donated to “Project” 2025
Correct. Amazon is the greatest threat to small and smaller businesses anyhow. Look at their policies and contracts with those manufacturers.
The Nazi Musk virus is apparently affecting Jeff Bezos, too
Terrible horrible disgusting 🤬 cooked brains 🧠 these sick people
Washington Post has always been a main stream media of the Establishment that has promoted and spread its agenda. It had never anything to do with independent journalism (although it may have inadvertently employed such journalists.) Don't touch any of that and stop voting in system's elections!
Piece of crap and plastic wife
Kissing 47s 🍑 & protecting his own…bottom line. Despicable, but not a surprise.
Absolutely agree. The qualities of a true leadership: Vision, Integrity, Empathy, Courage, Resilience, Decisiveness, Communication, Accountability, Inspiration, Humility. There are a lot of followers, not leaders, right now.
Let them sink in darkness. Look for alternatives.
Just cancelled my subscription today. And! I’ve been Amazon free, including Prime, for the entire month and I’m not stopping.
Everyone shocked raise your hand. No one. I thought so.
I was an early adopter of Amazon in the mid to late 90’s. I bought books and toys (kidsrus), I have supported him since, no longer. Maybe the guy that owns the Onion can buy the Post?
If he only wants MAGA money then let's give him what he wants.
. is that a maga-nazi salute?
BOOOOO! BOYCOTT!!!
the bozoington post someone with balls needs to buy the bozoington post and change it back to the Washington post
Just crossed Washington Post off my list!
The lengths these guys have gone just to suck Trump and Elon’s dicks is unbelievable. And having no self awareness about how really pathetic they look to everyone else.
Douche
Bezos’ solution to books on a concrete floor was to get knee pads. Not a table. Knee pads. So maybe it’s time we all accept he’s never been the best guy.
If there is one good thing about the Trump-Musk administration, it's that all masks getting dropped and people show there real colors.
He’s disgusting
Time for subscription cancellations!
So democracy doesn’t really die in darkness. It dies in full view supported by greedy billionaires.
WashPost used to be a great paper covering national politics. Not since the Bezos takeover and meddling in a free press. Some of the folks claiming to super patriotic seem to have no problem with Musk, Donnie, Bezos, and Congressional Republicans ignoring and trampling on our Constitution.
I just cancelled my subscription Bezos is another narcisstic billionaire. Everyone should boycott Amazon March 7-14
My solidarity w/ the great journalists from the Washington Post.
Just like Politicos owner did