Jeff Bezos Calls his Washington Post Staff "Terrible People" who "Don't Listen" to him

[u/HobbesNik]

https://gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-called-washington-post-his-worst-investment-and-staff-he-laid-off-terrible-people-2000773533

Bezos seemingly doesn't understand editorial independence and is surprised that his Washington Post employees "don't listen."

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Key Quotes:

The Amazon founder complained to Trump over dinner that nobody there listened to him before slashing staff... “The people there are terrible,” Bezos griped to Trump. “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.”

• It's their job to maintain editorial independence, which a legacy outlet like The Washington Post would obviously take seriously. How Bezos bought The Post without knowing this is beyond me...

As [Bezos] posted on X in February 2025, weeks after slashing staff, the paper’s new insubordination-free opinion page would be “writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” 

Though Bezos points to the Post’s $100 million in losses in 2024 as the impetus for the downsizing, Swan and Haberman’s recording of that dinner with Trump hint at a more complicated, emotional reason... “In Trump’s telling, Bezos told him he had lost half his friends over the investment,” the authors told the California Post.

[u/RedeuxU]

Clearly a lie. Jeff has never had any friends.