Democracy died in plain sight with the lights on.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Jeff Bezos has so many billions he and generations of his dependents will never, ever, be able to spend. He could easily drop a couple in a trust and the Washington Post would be funded for life and he would never feel it. None of this is about money.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      Well assuming they kept their subscribers and or ads. From what I can calculate WaPo has an operating cost of like $574M for 2024, so without that revenue they would burn through 2B in less than 4 years.

      Even at current 2024 losses of 100M, they would still go through it in less than 40 years. I can’t believe a newspaper makes almost a half billion dollars in revenue to be honest.