Good morning. If you thought Larry Ellison was going to run Paramount, think again. A month ago, Skydance Media told the FCC that the Oracle founder would have voting control of the media company formerly known as ViacomCBS when Skydance closes its $8 billion deal. It has now filed a revision saying no, it’s actually…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos might not allow The Washington Post to run its traditional endorsement of a presidential candidate, but he’s willing to pen and run an op-ed justifying his move. It’s all in the name of keeping the media unbiased, Jeff Bezos insists. Last Friday, the Post announced it was not endorsing a candidate…
If you’re like me, your social media feeds for the past few days have been full of posts with screenshots of “We’ve Canceled Your Subscription” notices and comments to the effect of “This will not stand, Washington Post!” Never before have so many people—200,000, according to one report—gotten such an ecstatic hit of online righteousness…
Jeff Bezos claims giving such support can ‘create a perception of bias’. The owner of The Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, is defending his newspaper’s decision not to endorse a United States presidential candidate following a report that 200,000 people have cancelled their digital subscriptions. National Public Radio (NPR) reported that the decision, made on Friday,…
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative voices to its opinion section — even as he remains silent over the broadsheet’s decision not to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. Bezos — the world’s second richest person with a fortune that Bloomberg Billionaires Index…
After POLITICO reached out to Babiš and his ANO party for comment, his right-hand man, ANO Vice Chair Karel Havlíček, replied that “it’s nonsense” to say the party has moved toward the far right. Dita Charanzová told POLITICO that “it was clear from the developments in the Czech Republic that the ANO movement would push nationalistic…
Georgia’s opposition is disputing the results of Saturday’s parliamentary elections, which are being led by the ruling party and could determine the country’s chances of joining the European Union and NATO. Georgian Dream, led by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, received about 54% of the votes, the election commission said after counting more than 99% of the…
This decision, announced by the chronically embattled Post chief executive officer Will Lewis, came after Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed that organization’s endorsement of Kamala Harris. The Post editorial board had also planned to endorse Harris before Bezos killed it. It would be easy to call this a dark week in American media,…
Less than two weeks before Election Day, The Washington Post said Friday it would not endorse a candidate for president in this year’s tightly contested race and would avoid doing so in the future — a decision immediately condemned by a former executive editor and one that the current publisher insisted was “consistent with the…
Washington Post staffers are growing restless over the left-leaning paper’s silence on endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president — with many suspecting that owner Jeff Bezos is behind the delay, according to a report. Some insiders speculate the billionaire Amazon founder, who has not spoken publicly about the 2024 election, does not want to…