r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 18 '26

Society Jeff Bezos called Washington Post his worst investment staffed with ‘terrible’ people, before laying off over 300 — “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen”

https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-called-washington-post-his-worst-investment-and-staff-he-laid-off-terrible-people-2000773533
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u/Lstgamerwhlstpartner Jun 18 '26

The guy bought it wanting to create his own mini-"fox news".

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u/mosswick Jun 18 '26

Jokes on him for believing the brainrot crowd would ever pay for a subscription to read articles.

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u/RunnyBabbit23 Jun 18 '26

They’ll pay, but not for real journalism. CNN realizing this the hard way, too. They keep moving further and further right thinking they can court the Fox News crowd and up their ratings without recognizing that there’s literally nothing they can do to get the right to accept them. They’ll always be “liberal mainstream media” because that’s what the right has been telling them for decades. So instead they just lose the people that saw them as actual journalists without picking up anyone new.