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By parroting the propaganda of an emergent class of “space capitalists,” the Washington Post extols the virtues of the private sector, its repackaged press releases masquerading as inspirational musings on American scientific progress.
It almost sounds like the newspaper owned by the second-wealthiest person in the world doesn’t want people talking about how much the extremely rich own compared to the rest of us.
The vaunted Washington Post factchecking team is once again applying its microscope to Sen. Bernie Sanders. The awkward thing is that the fact in question involves the Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-wealthiest person.
Where could Jeff Bezos have gotten the idea that it was OK to take away large sums of money that you promised people for their retirement after years of service? Well, maybe he reads the paper he just bought.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos paid $250 million for the Washington Post—but Amazon is being paid more than twice that by the CIA.
In recent weeks we have learned from the Post much about Bezos. What we have not been told is how the newspaper is going to shield itself from Mr. Bezos’ far-flung business interests in order to maintain reader credibility and trust.
What does Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos have in store for the Washington Post? No one can say for sure, but we can say that when Amazon didn’t like what WikiLeaks was publishing it shut down access to the site.
