Jeff Bezos Sucks. We Don't.
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You’ve probably heard a million reasons for “the importance of independent media” by now. But we can’t think of a better one than the scandal currently engulfing the Washington Post.
The paper was set to run an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. But then, its owner, mega-rich mega-tool Jeff Bezos, who has been sucking up to Donald Trump all year, decided to kill the endorsement. Hours after that decision was made public, Trump met with executives from Bezo’s dumb space company.
The point here is not that the world won’t get to read the Post’s endorsement of Harris. (We’ll survive.) It’s that what the Post does and doesn't do is ultimately for Jeff Bezos to decide. His employees don’t have any say in the matter, even if he’s pursuing his business and political interests at the expense of their integrity.
That’s what happens when we put our media outlets in the hands of tycoons like Bezos. We give them the power to control what news we read, which perspectives we hear, and, just as importantly, which ones we don’t.
And that’s why places like Discourse Blog matter. We are a genuinely independent media outlet: a worker-owned collective, funded entirely by our readers. No billionaire or boss dictates what we do, say, or write. We just tell you what we think, without fear or favor.
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