It's called light.
Posted on 04/03/2018 6:39:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Washington Post's executive editor, Martin Baron, is firing back at President Trump for linking -- and attacking -- the paper and online shopping and shipping titan Amazon. The Post was purchased by Amazon's founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos in 2013.
"It's completely made up," Baron said in a phone interview with The New York Times, referring to Mr. Trump's attacks on the paper that have included claims that Amazon uses the Post as a "lobbyist."
"I don't even know how to describe what goes through my mind," Baron said.
Last week alone, the president alleged the e-commerce site is taking advantage of the U.S. Postal Service and failing to pay enough in state and local taxes.
But Baron told the Times he will not be perturbed by the president's social media rants. "We cover him the way that we feel any president should be covered," he said.
The long-time editor flatly denied the president's claims that his paper acts as a lobbyist for Amazon. "There isn't anybody here who is paid by Amazon," he said. "Not one penny."
Baron also rebuffed Mr. Trump's assertions that Bezos has a hand in leading the Post's coverage. "I can't say more emphatically he's never suggested a story to anybody here, he's never critiqued a story, he's never suppressed a story," he said.
"If he had been involved in our news coverage, you can be sure that you would have heard about it by now," Baron added. "It hasn't happened. Period."
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Who owns the Post?
Who owns Amazon?
The link?
” “There isn’t anybody here who is paid by Amazon,” he said. “Not one penny.”
The CEO of Amazon is the owner of the paper, idiot.
You people know what side the bread is buttered.
Try writing an article about the working conditions at an Amazon warehouse, and see if are safe enough in your position to submit it for print.
Let Editor Baron write something critical of Jeff Bezos and he will immediately come to know reality.
The Mexican Carlos Slim owns a good chunk of the New York Times. No negative stories about illegal beaners in that paper. Coincidence?
My post #3 was sarcastic.
I expect the response from the left to be more along the lines of-pointing out that the Washington Times is owned by the Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon).
It’s funny now
/s is your friend
Baron must have been trapped in a smoky subway tube when he wrote that article.
If The Compost is denyin’
The Compost is lyin’
"The Compost is lyin’"
You left out the last line....."The Compost is dyin'".
As are all the leftist print media, both news magazines and daily newspapers. Dropping circulation, reduced ad revenue.
My local newsrag (The Tacoma Tribune) has so shrunk in size that it is probably no more than a dozen sheets. The one I used to read (the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) has gone "web only".
“”I don’t even know how to describe what goes through my mind,” Baron said.”
Delusional, marxist-propaganda tripe?
No action necessary - both the Post and Bozos think alike
It's called light.
Baron believes we’re all stupid.
Nope, Mr.Editor, half of us know exactly what you’re doing. And we don’t buy your snake oil.
Nothing fit for print?
BS
WaPo was dying before being bailed out by Bezos. Now they have no need to be anything but a Microphone for “progressives”. Similar to the bailout by Carlos Slim for the NYTimes.
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