I'm so old I remember when Jeff #Bezos seemed like sort of a good guy who chose books as the focus of his clever new internet store.
Now he will always be remembered as the toady who paid tens of millions in tribute to the Trumps while ruthlessly destroying one of history's great newspapers.
@gleick I know quite a bit about the bourgeois propaganda machine that manufactures consent for regime change in foreign countries to plunder their resources while agitating against the labor movement at home.
Americans need to stop idealizing journalism. It is just as capable of being used for disinformation and manipulation as it is to counter those things. WaPo wasn't an exception, even before Bezos.
@blueorchestra There's good journalism and bad journalism. It's our job as citizens to discern the difference. Admittedly that takes work. In my lifetime, persistent and honest journalists at the Washington Post brought down a corrupt presidency. Without them, the crimes of Richard Nixon and his co-conspirators would never have been exposed.
That's just one example. The Post was a great newspaper and made the world a better place. Now it has been perverted and destroyed by an oligarch.
@gleick And why should anyone care that the crimes of Nixon were exposed? There were no consequences. Even the "opposition" party looked the other way. Nixon's legacy would be continued by the GOP after he stepped down. Nothing changed.
Why should I put the Watergate Scandal above the countless lies WaPo has spread to justify U.S. aggression abroad like the rest of legacy media? We're talking about entire countries full of innocent millions being terrorized, murdered, and robbed.
@gleick I care much more about that than some election fraud or similar corruption.
WaPo is a pro-war rag and always has been. Ghouls and monsters; complicit with genocide and fascism for as long as it has existed.
They will never have my sympathy, period.
James Gleick
La Dame d'Azur