Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post

Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @10:53AM (#11814772)

Every criticism on the Washington Post can be used against 99% of Newspapers in America. The transition to web has been rough and the ability to still turn a profit for a for profit business is difficult. I think the New York Times has done the best so far and Wall Street Journal is the industry leader. I can't think of a single example of doing a better job minus NYT and WSJ.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by nxzero on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:23AM (#11815082)

A paper "transitioning" has nothing to do with if the spirit of the paper is alive; aka WaPo spirit is dead, company lives on.

99% of the papers in the US are trash; the fact that you'd compare WaPo to them speaks to your knowledge of the industry and WaPo itself.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @12:01PM (#11815492)

> the fact that you'd compare WaPo to them speaks to your knowledge of the industry and WaPo itself.

Someone is emotional?

Washington Post is in trouble like the rest of the newspapers in American deserves this response?

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by nxzero on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:22PM (#11816275)

How many papers have you read the staff written content from, what news did they cover, what was the quality of that content on average, etc.?

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:43PM (#11816507)

I got a big 4.0 in my Undergraduate Degree and was Valedictorian. I had to studied two dead languages and had all my last 30 credits from Graduate Level classwork. I scored in the top 90% on the GRE and MAT test.

Wow guess that is also not important about the general decline of Newspapers and their business models.

This is a easy observation on the decline of journalism and newspapers. Unless you deem everyone unable to form a observation on general newspapers?

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by nxzero on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @02:55PM (#11817155)

Please be honest, do you even know what you're talking about?

If so, click reply, without using any additional resources and tell me why 99% of papers are declining - and why WaPo was different than 99% of papers.

I do know that most people don't why, or for that matter, care.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @06:03PM (#11818591)

Instead of being condescending why don't you just state your opinion and not just be like "I am the smarts S-M-A-T Doh!"

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by nxzero on Thursday June 02, 2016 @06:17AM (#11821414)

I did state my opinion, WaPo is dead.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:21AM (#11821882)

I was all excited for the climatic ending and it ended on a whimper.

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by nxzero on Thursday June 02, 2016 @11:13AM (#11823098)

Were you replying to my comment... or sharing?

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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by baldfat on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:31PM (#11824395)

Sharing that your communication style is condescending and lacking in substance. Maybe this will help you to communicate better?

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