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In reply to the discussion: Bezos Scandal: Prominent economist offered op-ed to WaPo at Amazon's suggestion. [View all]dawg day
(7,947 posts)(Warren's at the moment the only one I find myself loving unconditionally, and that might change.
And I'm not toeing any line, just doing my civic duty of evaluating the Motley Crue to eventually settle on.
There has to be more evidence that Bezos interfered than, you know, WaPo is insufficiently approving of Sanders.
It would be biased to AVOID criticizing one candidate just because it might "look biased". That is, very likely, how the execrable Trump blundered in-- the MSM felt like they had to treat him with kid gloves perhaps because they loathed him.
But if there's some successful Bezos interference... well, that would be par for the course-- owners and publishers have often interfered when they can in journalism, for good or ill. I remember when Robert McCormick decreed that the Chicago Tribune would now help simplify the English spelling, and editors had to change "through" to "thru" and "though" to "tho."
Benign enough, but I bet there were more brutal interferences.