Keeping Winnett out of the Post is a good start, but Bezos needs to go further and get rid of Lewis, too. This Washington Post has a storied history of hiring the best and brightest journalists, character traits that seem to be missing in the current publisher.
The progressives at the Post are throwing a fit not over ethics concerns but rather that Lewis used to work for Rupert Murdoch's companies. As Bezos subsidizes the failing paper — which lost $77M last year — with his own wealth, the liberal newsroom should focus on writing better stories.
There is a 50% chance that the Woke index — i.e. the frequency of woke words used — in US elite media will top in October 2024, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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