Washington Post public editor: Bezos has been hands-off. What if that changes?
Washington Post public editor: Bezos has been hands-off. What if that changes? Apart from the purely money-driven vampires looking to suck the last bits of revenue from journalism, there are mostly two kinds of rich people who buy newspapers and magazines. Those, like Rupert Murdoch, who buy them with the explicit intention of wielding them as political megaphones. And those who buy them for the reason of the cultural cachet they bring–a quasi-philanthropic investment in a civic institution, a slightly more benign way of building political good will. Thus far, the purchase of the Washing...
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