Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by sadtruth on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:37AM
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How about Jeff Bezos pays out of pocket?
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Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by lostlogin on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:53AM
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Workers of his just received a rise of $1-2 per hour, there are limits to what a trillion dollar company can do.
https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-...
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by CamperBob2 on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:56AM
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Why, at that rate, he might have to shut the Post down in another 2 million years.
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by komali2 on Friday October 12, 2018 @01:50AM
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Why?
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by michaelt on Friday October 12, 2018 @04:52AM
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It's traditional for the super-rich to buy newspapers and run them at a loss to advance their pet political causes; give favourable coverage to their friends and business interests; and flatter them by including them in celebrity coverage.
This tradition is literally older than America.
Re:Tell HN: Now Washington Post is asking to turn off Firefo...
by komali2 on Friday October 12, 2018 @11:53AM
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Given that Trump regularly accuses, without evidence, bezos of doing this, and given the generally high respect paid to wapo among non-conservatives, I guess my question is now - despite Appeal to Tradition, why would bezos sacrifice the respectability of wapo to turn it into a favorable rag?
Basically, I don't think he could get away with stirring his fingers around in wapo (which it's reported he currently doesn't do) without far more negative consequences than positive.