The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg signaled her support for tech reporter Kara Swisher’s dream of buying The Washington Post from Jeff Bezos as the publication has undergone major changes.
Swisher said last year that she was working toward assembling a group of investors to purchase the Post, despite the fact the billionaire Amazon founder has given no indication he is willing to sell the Washington, D.C. paper. (RELATED: Ousted Journalist Attempting To Rally Wealthy Allies In Long Shot Bid To Buy The Washington Post)
“The money is not the issue. The issue is Jeff Bezos doesn’t want to sell it because he sees it as a tool now,” Swisher said on the daytime gabfest.
“Musk has X, and he has this. Now, what’s happening though, is all the really good people are leaving. Ruth Marcus just left, a terrific columnist, the head of P.R. just left, the head of communications, just yesterday, and they’re just losing subscriptions and it’s all due to Jeff’s things,” Swisher said.
“He likes to blame the reporters. They don’t like to change, and I would have agreed 10 years ago, but the reporters do understand that they need to change,” Swisher continued before Goldberg chimed in.
Golberg replied, “maybe” as Swisher asked if she wanted to be involved.
“I do,” Goldberg said. “Maybe the idea is… crowdfunding, because I think lots of people would love to be part of a newspaper that had something to say.”
“Or maybe it’s time for a new newspaper,” Goldberg said.
Bezos announced in February that the opinion section would be focused on writing “in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets.” (RELATED: Anti-Trump Reporter Walks Out Of The Washington Post To Start ‘Contrarian’ Outlet)
Earlier this week, longtime Post columnist Ruth Marcus detailed her exit from the paper in a piece for The New Yorker, calling out the paper’s publisher for killing her column critical of Bezos.
“I stayed until I no longer could—until the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, issued an edict that the Post’s opinion offerings would henceforth concentrate on the twin pillars of ‘personal liberties and free markets,’ and, even more worrisome, that ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.’ I stayed until the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, killed a column I filed last week expressing my disagreement with this new direction. Lewis refused my request to meet,” Marcus wrote.
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OK Dems just do it
Hope he doesn’t sell it to another liberal. We need to get rid of those kinds of newspaper which only spout their views.
Obama even sits like a girl. Larry Sinclair wasn’t telling lies.
So Ruth Marxist doesn’t like personal liberty and free markets. No surprise there.