One of the most important Silicon Valley companies, including Washington Post user Jeff Bezos, is one of the smartest, richest, and most influential. He may also have just given the desperately needed remedy for the intellectual venom that is quickly destroying what little of traditional American media is left.
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The ugliest truth about Bezos ‘ ownership of the Post was immediately exposed when the outcry in the Post newsroom quickly swelled to the highest decibels of Leftist protest and childish virtue-signaling following publisher William Lewis ‘ announcement on October 25 that no presidential endorsement would be issued in 2024 or thereafter.
The Post office is full of very educated men and women who call themselves” editors” but who in fact work, knowingly or unknowingly, as commentators of the authorized tale about American politics and plans. They yell at their children, pull up their toys, and retire in opposition when they are denied the right to broadcast that approved story.
Whose “approved narrative”, you may ask? When he eventually stated that” the Washington Post and the New York Times win prizes, but exceedingly we talk only to a certain elite,” Bezos hit it. More and more, we talk to ourselves. ( It was n’t always this way  , — in the 1990s we achieved 80 percent household penetration in the D. C. metro area. )”
That particular aristocracy is the one who directs the information flow throughout the popular media and the entertainment industry’s artistic processes, who dominate the humanitarian sector’s grant-making processes, who have almost eliminated freedom of thought from classrooms and replaced” Critical Race Theory” lies with fact-based civics and history instruction, and who are gaining in importance marketing and tactical decision-making positions in the Fortune 500.
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They are in essence the obsessively politicized minions and organizers of the Left’s” Long March Through the Institutions” of American life. Their objectives are bureaucratic “experts” surveillance and supervision, centralized government following the European Socialist model ( or worse ), and the subjecting of individual rights to a range of leftist ideological redefinitions of the public interest.  ,
However, Bezos only partially verified this information about who considers the Post to be a reliable news source in his response to the outcry over no endorsements in his newsroom. It was Bezos ‘ first real-life moment of significance because of how significant it was:
Journalists and the media have consistently fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress, in the annual public surveys about trust and reputation. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. The least-trusted profession of all is now ours. Something we are doing is obviously ineffective.
Another way of putting it would be that everyday Americans are n’t buying, literally and figuratively, the elite’s narrative that is broadcast incessantly throughout the MSM, including the Post. That reality, as Bezos explained, coupled with the lack of credibility and trust of readers, are the two prime ingredients of the lethal poison.
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Then came Bezos ‘ bottom line, noting that, just as is required of voting machines:
Likewise with newspapers. We must be accurate, and we must be believed to be accurate. It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but we are failing on the second requirement. The majority of people think that the media is biased.
Anyone who does n’t see this is paying scant attention to reality, and those who fight reality lose. Reality is an undefeated champion. A victim mentality will not help us as we continue to lose credibility over time and with it, which is easy to blame. Complaining is not a strategy. To improve our credibility, we must exert more control over what we can control.
Journalism in the Post newsroom is being destroyed by the elite narrative mindset, just like it is in the Los Angeles Times newsroom, USA Today, and dozens of other media outlets that all emerged as a result of the golden age of American newspapers and news broadcasting.
However, Elon Musk quickly realized this when he took over Twitter: exposing the harsh reality of the repercussions of their behavior is only the first and most straightforward step.
Many people who exhibit the poison’s symptoms will recognize the truth and accept the solution by reporting unfavorably verified facts about politicians and government programs, but many others wo n’t. They will conduct guerilla warfare.
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In 2022, Musk purchased a social media giant with more than 8, 000 employees. Today, X has about 1, 500 employees. Many of those who are no longer there left of their own accord, while others did not.
The Post’s biggest union represents about 1, 000 reporters, editors, researchers, and others. Some of these men and women are still able to recall how and what true journalism looks like. Will Bezos have the guts to intervene when necessary and forbid learning from those who do n’t?
