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highplainsdem

(63,115 posts)
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:17 AM Jul 2025

Tech journalist Karl Bode: Bezos rumored to be buying Conde Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker,

GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.

Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.


Bezos rumored to be buying Condé Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica.

Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs.

Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) 2025-07-11T13:00:20.340Z



Some news stories have treated this as a "wedding gift" so his unrecognizably remodeled wife can get magazine covers. But the New Yorker, Wired and Ars Technica in particular are magazines a tech lord would want to control.
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Tech journalist Karl Bode: Bezos rumored to be buying Conde Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2025 OP
"All your media are belong to us." - KGOp Billionaire Bros, Inc. BoRaGard Jul 2025 #1
There would go the New Yorker Johonny Jul 2025 #2
Jesus, No! NOT The New Yorker! no_hypocrisy Jul 2025 #3
That was my first reaction too! FirstLight Jul 2025 #7
Ikr? NOT Good! electric_blue68 Jul 2025 #8
Seems like internet rumors newdeal2 Jul 2025 #4
His smug face always makes me want to vomit. Oneironaut Jul 2025 #5
Real news is seen, heard and witnessed, not reading cayugafalls Jul 2025 #6
Melania will get the cover of Vogue. Trump will be thrilled. applegrove Jul 2025 #9

FirstLight

(15,771 posts)
7. That was my first reaction too!
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:58 AM
Jul 2025

...and Vanity Fair is a good one too.
Though I wonder why Bezos wants to get control of the 'hollywood woke' media...oh yeahhhhh, to get rid of it!

newdeal2

(5,620 posts)
4. Seems like internet rumors
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:24 AM
Jul 2025

Not picked up by any serious business news sources.

The only reason I could partially believe it is he wants to buy Vogue and put Melania on the cover to curry favor with Trump.

Oneironaut

(6,322 posts)
5. His smug face always makes me want to vomit.
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:28 AM
Jul 2025

This is why a free society and billionaires are not compatible with each other.

cayugafalls

(5,984 posts)
6. Real news is seen, heard and witnessed, not reading
Fri Jul 11, 2025, 11:34 AM
Jul 2025

articles written by publications whose historical owners have all done the bidding of Kings.

A long time ago, some DUer posted the family tree of owners and traced Cinderella Nast it back to Royal Criers.

I’m gonna try and find it and post a follow up.

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