Tech Tycoon Jeff Bezos Owns the Washington Post - Why Is Their Tech Reporting So Terrible?
Here’s Hoping Bezos Applies Amazon Reality to the Washington Post |
To wit: Bezos started in 1994 Amazon.com. (T)he world's largest internet company, based on revenue and number of employees.
Bezos has done okay: Real Time Net Worth: $29.9 Billion.
In 2013, Bezos waded into the dying world of Dinosaur Journalism - purchasing the Washington Post for $250 million (ostensibly pulled out of his petty cash drawer).
Transitioning journalism forward needs to happen. If it can be done successfully, Bezos ain’t a bad guy to take the shot.
Unlike most of the uber-Leftist enclave that is the Media, Bezos is a libertarian - albeit one who doesn’t eschew supporting Democrats. And some of his front-of-the-house Post personnel moves seem to reflect this.
The Volokh Conspiracy Joins the Washington Post
Perhaps Bezos hasn’t yet examined this part of his new staff. Or perhaps it’s the Post’s and Amazon’s big-time support of Network Neutrality - a major Tech issue, which will greatly benefit Amazon if the government illegally imposes it.
How so? Amazon uses a LOT of bandwidth. If the government via Net Neutrality mandates Amazon can’t be charged for it - that’s a huge win for Bezos. Of course We the Consumers pick up that exorbitant tab in the form of higher Internet charges - a huge loss for us, but of less concern to Bezos.
So from a personal business perspective Bezos may like his Post Tech coverage exactly the way it is. Because if his prism was purely journalistic - it would be difficult to see how he’d maintain the status quo.
Let us look at but one recent Washington Post flight of fancy.
But that flood of public interest revealed just how dated the FCC's online public engagement infrastructure has become….
The FCC online commenting system's sputtering was an embarrassment to an agency eager to prove it is competent enough to make rules around modern technology….
Bezos’ Amazon would be embarrassed.
How helpful to Leftists was the FCC? Behold FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s “Special Counsel for External Affairs.”
Did the Post find this wall-to-wall twenty-four-seven FCC Leftist assistance at all questionable? Of course not.
Did the FCC at any point reach out to pro-free market grass-roots activists for assistance? Of course not. Even when this was happening:
Did the Post - in a 2,780-word piece - find room to mention this widespread opposition? Of course not.
The journalistic banality rambles on and on and…. But you by now get the idea.
Jeff Bezos made Amazon huge by giving customers what they want. To save the alleged news entity Washington Post - he should consider doing the same.
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Seton Motley is the President of Less Government and he contributes to ARRA News Service. Article was also shared on MRC: News Busters. Please feel free to follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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