| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Culture Wars |
| WaPo II: Everything must go! |
| 2013-08-09 |
| More from Michael Walsh on the WaPo fire sale. Read the whole thing. From TFA: So Monday she sold the paper -- gave it and a handful of other properties away, really -- to Jeff Bezos for $250 million cash money. Not to Amazon, which Bezos founded in his garage and turned into a marketing and publishing powerhouse, but to Bezos himself, personally. I guess the One Percent really is the personification of all evil and inequality in this country -- until it comes time for one of them to bail out a liberal institution. Anyway, talk about instantly disposable fishwrap. The liberal fantasy world, media division, that the Times and the Post both inhabit and limn: "media-politico-Hollywood love fest," check; socialite, check; power dinner, check; airy Craftsman home, check; single mother of three, check; lawyer, check; Harvard and Stanford degrees, check; cameo appearances by Vernon Jordan and Lally Weymouth, check; obligatory reference to the Hamptons, check -- has come crashing down. With the fire sale of the Boston Globe and some other media properties by the Times, the euthanizing of Newsweek, and now the sudden heave-ho given to the flagship enterprise of the Washington Post Co., the old order indeed passeth. The new order being: Do you want fries with that? |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 "With the fire sale of the Boston Globe and some other media properties by the Times, the euthanizing of Newsweek, and now the sudden heave-ho given to the flagship enterprise of the Washington Post Co., the old order indeed passeth". Meanwhile, the Drudge Report gains readers. Matt Drudge - National Press Club - 1998. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2013-08-09 02:36 |