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2013-08-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by badanov 2013-08-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Blue Origin and WaPo under the same hood.. It doesn't compute.

Posted by 3dc 2013-08-06 02:14|| 2013-08-06 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Patting Bezos and the LGBT community on the head in advance of the Hildebeast's run-up ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-08-06 02:28|| 2013-08-06 02:28|| Front Page Top

#3 He bought it so they can wrap the Amazon packages with cheap, worthless WaPo editorial pages.

Posted by airandee 2013-08-06 09:51|| 2013-08-06 09:51|| Front Page Top

#4 WaPo goes Kindle.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-08-06 11:16|| 2013-08-06 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 He bought it so they can wrap the Amazon packages with cheap, worthless WaPo editorial pages.

I'd say that's a winner!

Posted by SteveS 2013-08-06 11:26|| 2013-08-06 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Of note, from the Washington Times, supporting badanov's point elsewhere that Mr. Bezos is a liberal:

According to the New York Post, Amazon Web Services also helped build the high-tech data storage and retrieval system for the Obama campaigns get-out-the-vote operation.

During the campaign, the AWS solution helped facilitate the fund-raising of hundreds of millions of dollars, prioritized millions of phone calls and coordinated thousands of volunteers, Amazon said on its Web site.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-06 11:29|| 2013-08-06 11:29|| Front Page Top

#7 "The duty of the paper is to the readers, not the owners."

Which is the fifty percent of the potential readership they've not alienated.

Hopefully this purchase won't begin to alienate fifty percent of Amazon's potential customer base as well.

Posted by Pappy 2013-08-06 11:30|| 2013-08-06 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "you know how to build a small fortune owning liberal newspapers......?"

Posted by Frank G on the road 2013-08-06 14:26|| 2013-08-06 14:26|| Front Page Top

#9 a blogger on The New Republic (leftist mag owned by a facebook billionaire) is criticizing this sale.

as far as I can tell, the guy doesn't see the irony

Posted by lord garth 2013-08-06 18:44|| 2013-08-06 18:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Hopefully this purchase won't begin to alienate fifty percent of Amazon's potential customer base as well.

If the Kindle single (and it's free!) they did of an interview with President Obama is any indication, it most definitely will. Link Note the double hump on the comments, with the majority of comments evenly divided between one star and five stars, and almost 900 comments since the 31.July publication date.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-08-06 20:38|| 2013-08-06 20:38|| Front Page Top

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