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Who Do Washington Post Boycotts Hurt? Not Jeff Bezos.

2024/11/2
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Emily Peck：华盛顿邮报取消背书事件是由于贝佐斯干预，引发了大规模抵制，损害了邮报的声誉和订阅数量。抵制并非针对背书本身，而是对贝佐斯干预编辑独立性的不满。贝佐斯声称此举与政治无关，但这一说法并未得到广泛认可。抵制行动虽然对贝佐斯个人财富影响不大，但它凸显了媒体所有权与编辑独立性之间的紧张关系，并引发了对新闻自由的讨论。 Elizabeth Spiers：抵制事件并非源于人们对报纸社论本身的反对，而是对亿万富翁干预编辑决策的不满。华盛顿邮报的读者群是高信息人群，他们对政治议题高度关注，因此他们的反应是可理解的。抵制事件的发生地是华盛顿，这使得事件的影响更加显著。 Anna Szymanski：抵制对贝佐斯的影响微乎其微，更多的是损害了华盛顿邮报的记者。抵制行动虽然可能无法改变贝佐斯或邮报的立场，但它至少将问题推到了风口浪尖，引发了公众的关注和讨论，并可能对贝佐斯未来的行为产生影响。

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The hosts discuss the Washington Post's decision to drop its presidential endorsement and the subsequent boycott, focusing on its impact on Jeff Bezos and the newspaper's journalists.
  • The Washington Post lost over 250,000 subscribers after dropping its presidential endorsement.
  • Jeff Bezos's decision to interfere with the editorial process sparked backlash.
  • The boycott highlighted issues of editorial independence and billionaire ownership of media.

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This week: Readers aren’t buying Jeff Bezos’ claim that killing the Washington Posts’ presidential endorsement wasn’t from his own business interests. Emily Peck), Elizabeth Spiers)*, *and Anna Szymanski weigh in on how the move may or may not help Bezos and what the WaPo boycott can actually accomplish. Also: How would a Trump victory affect the economy? Badly, economists say. Finally: Facebook laid off two dozen workers for abusing their free GrubHub vouchers as companies crack down on perk abuse.

In the Plus segment: The New York Times took a sympathetic look) at the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried and other jailed FTX execs. Our hosts found it to be pandering to the anxieties of the paper’s white, suburban readers. How much sympathy do the parents of 30-something corporate crooks really deserve? 

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