silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoThe Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair | The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.www.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1248arrow-down13
arrow-up1245arrow-down1external-linkThe Washington Post Is Dying a Death of Despair | The demise of an independent press in the United States might not look much like what readers expect.www.theatlantic.comsilence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square17fedilink
minus-squareyesman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoI’m conflicted. I feel like I should stop stealing their content, but isn’t that what they want?
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoThe problem is that the Washington Post is pocket change for Bezos. To hurt him, you need to move off AWS and stop buying from Amazon
minus-squareDrunemeton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoI’m paraphrasing here: About 200K people canceled their WaPo subs after they failed to endorse. Bezos made $400M in the stock surge that happened after Agent Orange was elected. So he made about $2K for every cancellation.
I’m conflicted. I feel like I should stop stealing their content, but isn’t that what they want?
The problem is that the Washington Post is pocket change for Bezos. To hurt him, you need to move off AWS and stop buying from Amazon
There are other ways to hurt him.
Let’s-a-go!
I’m paraphrasing here: About 200K people canceled their WaPo subs after they failed to endorse. Bezos made $400M in the stock surge that happened after Agent Orange was elected.
So he made about $2K for every cancellation.