silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoThe Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair | The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1251arrow-down13
arrow-up1248arrow-down1external-linkThe Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair | The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 month agoThe problem is that the Washington Post is pocket change for Bezos. To hurt him, you need to move off AWS and stop buying from Amazon
minus-squareDrunemeton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI’m paraphrasing here: About 200K people canceled their WaPo subs after they failed to endorse. Bezos made $400M in the stock surge that happened after Agent Orange was elected. So he made about $2K for every cancellation.
The problem is that the Washington Post is pocket change for Bezos. To hurt him, you need to move off AWS and stop buying from Amazon
There are other ways to hurt him.
Let’s-a-go!
I’m paraphrasing here: About 200K people canceled their WaPo subs after they failed to endorse. Bezos made $400M in the stock surge that happened after Agent Orange was elected.
So he made about $2K for every cancellation.