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  "description": "We at MRC Business have long known that the Post is a cesspool of wacky, left-wing tripe. But it is pure comedy to see the owner of the whole kit-and-kaboodle realize it too. ",
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  "textContent": "Joseph Vazquez\n_Joseph is the MRC business associate editor for the news analysis division. He graduated summa cum laude with a BA in political science from The George Washington University._\n\nIt’s about time someone outside the conservative ecosphere admitted the obvious about the insufferable narcissists that plague the _Washington Post_ newsroom. But no one could have expected the admission to come from the newspaper’s owner.\n\n_Post_ owner Jeff Bezos apparently told then-President-elect Donald Trump during dinner in December 2024 that his bailout of the failing newspaper was his worst investment, according to a book excerpt by _New York Times_ writers Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman exclusively obtained by the _New York Post._\n\n“The people there are terrible,” Bezos said. “They don’t listen. My other companies, they listen.” Ouch. Journalists think they don’t have to care about the business.\n\nWhat makes this even more humiliating for the _Post_ is that it would go on to lose over $100 million in 2025, effectively justifying Bezos’s order for mass layoffs in February 2026. These layoffs amounted to “eliminating roughly a third of [the _Post’s_] workforce, including all staff photographers and the sports section,” the _New York Post_ noted.\n\nThis new damning context definitively puts a new light on Bezos’s internet-shattering directives to the _Post_ leadership that his newspaper not issue an endorsement of Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign in 2024 and the opinion page be reengineered to promote free market capitalism. As it turns out, continuously peppering readers with leftist agitprop like it’s a bad habit isn’t a sustainable business model for a newspaper that purportedly thrives off credibility, and Bezos clearly understood this from a corporate perspective.\n\nNow, the poor lefty journos at the _Post_ are having to admit that nutty wealth tax proposals are actually pretty terrible, that the health insurance monstrosity known as Obamacare was “never actually affordable,” and that the federal government had grown “too big” and needed downsizing.\n\nWe at MRC Business have long known that the _Post_ is a cesspool of wacky, left-wing tripe. But it is pure comedy to see the owner of the whole kit-and-kaboodle realize it too.\n\nThis article was originally published by MRC NewsBusters.",
  "title": "What Bezos Told President Trump",
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