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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @06:38PM (#43189573)
CNN owned by TimeWarner/Discovery is also pivoting toward not publishing anything negative toward Trump.

https://www.cjr.org/analysis/anticipatory-obedience-bassin-p...

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by zfg on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @07:36PM (#43190023)
What's an example of that pivot from CNN's website today?
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:26PM (#43190308)
From the citation

> What do you think of our coverage?’ ‘Were our reporters being too hard on the White House and Trump?’ ‘Should [CNN chief executive] Jeff Zucker be replaced?’ It was nothing explicit, but I got the drift.”

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by zfg on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @08:40PM (#43190367)
Okay, but what's a real world example of that happening on CNN's website today?
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:12AM (#43191810)
A real world example would f what didn’t happen? Putting your thumb on the scale is a lot more subtle.

That’s just like asking for evidence that Chinese media isn’t biased about saying anything negative about the government.

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by zfg on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:45AM (#43191949)
Or you could simply find plenty of criticism of Trump on CNN's website which would invalidate the concern.
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:14PM (#43196877)
By putting the thumb on the scale doesn’t mean they never say anything negative. Even Fox News will occasionally criticize Trump. It means being more careful about not being overly critical
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by zfg on Thursday February 27, 2025 @03:44PM (#43198306)
So.. CNN is doing good, well sourced journalism?
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:45PM (#43199395)
Are you really defending CNN when I just posted citations of the boss wanting to be careful not to offend Trump?
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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by zfg on Thursday February 27, 2025 @07:54PM (#43200399)
You still haven't provided a single example that the desires of the boss are actually being reflected in the operation of CNN.

Jeff Bezos wanted the Washington Post to go soft on Trump. Here are concrete examples of his interference:

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washing...

Now your turn.

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Re:Bezos Exerts Control of WaPo Opinion to Focus on Personal... by scarface_74 on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:52AM (#43204216)
https://www.tvinsider.com/1171396/cnn-trump-jim-acosta-wolf-...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-plots-bury-anchor-trump-04315...

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