Dan GillmorJun 17, 2024

It's becoming more and more obvious that the Bezos people didn't do anything close to proper due diligence before they hired a former Murdoch apparatchik to be CEO of the Washington Post.

The NYT's story this weekend shows clearly that Will Lewis -- and the editor he selected -- weren't cleaning up the rot inside the Murdoch empire, as they'd claimed.

They were part of it.

https://dankennedy.net/2024/06/16/the-will-lewis-scandal-at-the-washington-post-is-spinning-out-of-control/

The Will Lewis scandal at The Washington Post is spinning out of control

Saturday was the first time I thought that Washington Post publisher Will Lewis might survive the scandal that had erupted over his role in the Murdoch phone-hacking schedule and his subsequent att…

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Dan Kennedy TLDR: "executive editor Sally Buzbee, who left the Post a week ago, was not fired; rather, she quit rather than accept a demotion to a new role… What are the odds of her returning triumphantly to the newsroom on Monday? No doubt that would require an apology by owner Jeff Bezos as well as some guaranteed job security. But that would seem to be Bezos’ best option at this point."
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Jun 17, 2024 at 1:10amWeb