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Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by danvoell on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:41AM (#11253190)
How much does it cost to buy a New York Times article these days?
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by ignoramous on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:30AM (#11253495)
You're talking abt the same nytimes that was critical of Amazon's work culture as recently as a few months back.
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by zzzzzxxxxx on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @09:59AM (#11253295)
Probably less than the entire Washington Post.
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by billiam on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:37PM (#11254787)
It's even less to buy/coopt/promise a Blue Origin ride to a single tech columnist who is lightly edited.
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by snuxoll on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:16PM (#11254607)
TIL that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by danvoell on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:38PM (#11254346)
I know my comment did not add too much to the conversation but it shouldn't have gotten so many negative votes. We're talking about a CEO who bought a newspaper, the definition of buying media.
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by wpietri on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @03:10PM (#11255435)
So your implication here is that the New York Times was excited help out a competitor? And so they got a prominent tech writer, one who has written for a variety of publications over the years, to write a puff piece because he'll just write anything for money?
Re:Amazon’s Echo Brims with Groundbreaking Promise by cylinder on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:34PM (#11254313)
It's Farhad, so nothing