I think it would behoove you, given how easily they bent over for Bezos and have silenced opposition against him, to reflect back on the last two decades and compare various outlets (including the ones you don’t like because they don’t align with your political stance) and see just for how long they’ve been corrupted.

They didn’t wake up in 2013 and suddenly decide they won’t have any integrity.

It's not that they don't align with my political stance, it's that they don't do their job of providing broad-spectrum information on the actions of governments and corporations. To emphasize, Top Secret America was an outstanding expose of the military-intelligence contracting system, but that was before Bezos got his ~600 million CIA web services contract, and soon after that he spent what, ~$250 million to buy the Post, after which that kind of investigative journalism was eliminated.

However, your point is pretty valid - back in 2002, the WaPo regurgitated US government talking points on (non-existent) Iraq WMDs without bothering to do any investigative pushback.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/10/11/c...

They literally have a section of the website dedicated to investigative journalism, including a number of recent investigations into government contractors, military officials, government corruption (all of these in October 2022!). Going back more over the past 6 months, you have investigations into police brutality, election integrity units, more coverage of government contractors and corruption, police corruption, and lawmaker self-dealing.

What more are you expecting from them?

That's why we have multiple newspapers. The other ones can cover for deficiencies of a single one. The Post is doing great investigative journalism still, including this piece.

I understand the argument, but I find this a bit disturbing, as there are some topics that all of the oligarch-owned newspapers will not be willing to cover in depth. There is kind of a 'fringe' that will publish some details, i.e.

"(2020) Amazon: We Totally Don’t Want To Spy On You. Also Amazon: We Just Hired The Architect Of The NSA’s Mass Domestic Surveillance Program"

https://dailycaller.com/2020/09/10/amazon-surveillance-nsa-d...

However, most people view that outlet as a highly partisan right-wing opinion-centric source (with rather limited sources), not at all the 'traditional unbiased news media' - which instead avoid the story, and instead just churn out a stream of pro-government, pro-corporate propaganda 24/7. This is pretty unhealthy IMO, since, ahem, 'democracy dies in darkness', and is the kind of behavior you see from Chinese and Russian state media, not from independent journalism.

Sounds like you need to start a newspaper and give unbiased news to the people and become super successful doing so! In the end there will always be a market for actual journalism and a market for sensational clickbait and a market for something in between. In my opinion outfits like the NYT, WP, Economist, WSJ etc are all super flawed but in combination are doing a pretty good job keeping government accountable.

> I can't imagine the WaPo taking this same tone with regard to a Bezos acquisition or contract

Uhhh... you must not ever read WaPo. They run critical coverage of Bezos and Amazon all of the time.

I see them reporting on stories that others have generated, but what I certainly don't see is anything like investigative journalism targeting any of Bezo's business interests, i.e. generating original stories, publishing embarrassing leaks (that others have not already published) etc. Again, see the Top Secret America investigative journalism effort from 2010. There's nothing similar that the Post has done since Bezos bought it, is there?

Maybe for the simple fact that they are still predominantly a local newspaper for Washington DC. Their beat coverage is still largely going to be Federal US politics.

And bezos doesn't have dealings on a federal level? Oh my. You are naive.

Bezos bought a new paper, so he can have a mouth piece when he needs it.

Musk just bought a bigger mouth piece, without any of those pesky editors.

Musk and his investors just bought a massive amount of power. Which We basically lost.

Welcome to the oligarchy.