How Jeff Bezos Betrayed the Legacy of The Washington Post
How Jeff Bezos Betrayed the Legacy of “The Washington Post”
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Pamela Alma Weymouth on the tarnishing of her family’s former crown jewel.
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How Jeff Bezos Betrayed the Legacy of The Washington Post
Writing in The Nation, Pamela Alma Weymouth drew a contrast between Kay Graham, her late
grandmother who was publisher of The Washington Post when it fought Richard Nixon’s
administration on The Pentagon Papers and Watergate, with the current owner of the
newspaper, Jeff Bezos. Unlike Graham, Bezos has been all too willing to bend the knee to a
corrupt president. I talked to Pamela about Bezos and other contemporary corporate leaders
who are undermining journalistic integrity at a moment when it is needed more than ever.
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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wave as they exit the Hotel Aman Wedding on June 28, 2025 in Venice, Italy.
(Luigi Iorio / GC Images)Writing in The Nation, Pamela Alma Weymouth drew a contrast between Kay Graham, her late grandmother who was publisher of The Washington Post when it fought Richard Nixon’s administration on the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, with the current owner of the newspaper, Jeff Bezos. Unlike Graham, Bezos has been all too willing to bend the knee to a corrupt president. I talked to Pamela about Bezos and other contemporary corporate leaders who are undermining journalistic integrity at a moment when it is needed more than ever.
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The Time of Monsters podcast features Nation national-affairs correspondent Jeet Heer’s signature blend of political culture and cultural politics. Each week, he’ll host in-depth conversations with urgent voices on the most pressing issues of our time.
The Great Canadian Betrayal
In April, the Liberal Party of Canada, under the leadership of Mark Carney, won an election that heartened opponents of the right-wing. Carney had run on the promise of fighting Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada and also to bolster the Canadian state to deal with issues like affordable housing. But in office, Carney has been delivering something different than his rhetoric suggested: he has been servile to Trump and is promoting austerity. The journalist Luke Savage has written about Carney’s turn-around for both The Baffler and the Toronto Star. I talked to Luke not only about Carney’s policies but also why centrist technocratic liberals are so inept in fighting the far right.
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