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Sure, and we get to look at the fact that he silently pulled rank to kill a story for craven reasons and decide worse of him and decide that his control of the news we get from that paper makes it suspect to his whims. If he's willing to kill something this major, he's willing to kill smaller stories about Amazon, or himself, or anything else him or his friends care about.

It completely flies in the face of the values of the paper and the reasons Bezos said he was buying it. If I wanted to get Bezos's press releases, I could get them on Amazon or Blue Origin's press site. No one's claiming he's not literally allowed to do this, but that it's spoiling the product. If Bezos bought McDonalds and made it serve only vegan burgers without explanation that's totally his right as the owner, but it's insane and makes you question why they did it.




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