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Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by ricw on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:45AM (#11815325)
One is entertainment. The other is the mainstay newspaper of the capital of the USA; one of the newspapers / magazines with the most political sway. He should be scrutinised for doing so.

Reading the article though, the title is "bait" coming from the NYT. The majority is just a summary of a very interesting interview in which he actually is largely positively portrayed.

Personally, I think Bezos has done a great job with the washington post. I've probably read more post articles over the last two years than in the previous ten. Would be nice to see the HN stats on that :).

Re:Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to Buy Washington Post by ProAm on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:52AM (#11815404)
> The other is the mainstay newspaper of the capital of the USA; one of the newspapers / magazines with the most political sway. He should be scrutinised for doing so

Why? Newspapers have rarely been unbiased or uninfluenced by money, especially from politics (whether they be left or right leaning), the fact that it changed owners doesn't mean anything?