Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again | Margaret Sullivan
Jeff Bezos once saved the Washington Post. Now he needs to do it again | Margaret Sullivan
What’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied reputation is based on holding powerful people and institutions accountable, all for the sake of democracy? The
paper that broke the Watergate story, thus helping to unseat a corrupt president, and that, following the New York Times, riskily published the Pentagon Papers?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/jeff-bezos-washington-post-will-lewis
What’s the point of owning the Washington Post if it’s no longer the Washington Post? By that, I mean the iconic US newspaper whose storied reputation is based on holding powerful people and institutions accountable, all for the sake of democracy? The
paper that broke the Watergate story, thus helping to unseat a corrupt president, and that, following the New York Times, riskily published the Pentagon Papers?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/12/jeff-bezos-washington-post-will-lewis