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Bezos’s Inferno

The latest news, notes, and hunger cries from within The Washington Post, which finds itself embroiled in a largely predictable self-immolation of its own design—the latest scandal produced by an owner, management team, and rank-and-file that appear to operate a little too comfortably in opposition to one another.

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It seems Bezos’s editorial did little to disabuse critics of their unfounded suspicion that he had preemptively capitulated to Trump in anticipation of his return to the White House. Photo: Patrick Fallon/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
October 31, 2024

Last Friday, as Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis announced the paper’s controversial decision to forgo a presidential endorsement in the waning days before the election, the paper’s proprietor, Jeff Bezos, was in Switzerland with his fiancée and friends of the haut monde, embarking on a multiday, Orient Express-style rail tour from Geneva to Amsterdam in celebration of Katy Perry’s 40th birthday. While Bezos & Co. spent the weekend celebrating the pop star, drinking Moët and donning thematic attire for each event, the Post ignited into yet another open revolt.