[Steely Tom]

$250 million is pocket change to the WP’s owner.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Couple that with the multiple hundreds of millions he'll pay for support, and it'll start to hurt.

[RoosterRedux]

IIRC Bezos paid $250 mil. for the WaPo when he bought it.

[montaine]

$250 million is the cost of the whole company. And there is no way that WaPo did $250 million in damages to Mr. Sandmann. This is just an abuse of the system and , frankly, hurts his case in the court of public opinion. The defendant acted badly and deserves to pay out damages, but it shouldn’t be a lottery ticket for the plaintiff.

[bigbob]

Good, then he can write the check and move on.

[Tallguy]

Maybe so, but he’s going to re-evaluate the management when one of his companies just cost him $250M (or whatever they end up settling for).

[trebb]

Still sends a message to them and to those who would find that amount more substantial....