Jeff Bezos laid off nearly half the Washington Post newsroom, claiming he was doing this for the long-term viability of the paper. To be relevant, the Post has to be a “profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet,” Bezos CNBC.
Privately, however, Bezos told Trump that Post employees “are terrible…. They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.”
https://fair.org/home/one-year-into-the-clampdown-wapo-opinion-cheers-for-maga-billionaires-and-ai/
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